J Benton Limited, haulage contractors of London E16.

Typescript signed minutes.

This company was incorporated in 1953 to purchase the goodwill and vehicles of business of the late Charles Benton, haulage contractor. Control passed to J W Hardy in February 1958. It was later acquired by the national road haulage and warehousing company, the Transport Development Group.

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

These records were deposited in 1986 by the advisory service of the Business Archives Council, which had acquired them in 1985.

Link to full catalogue: https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/JBN

Other records of companies acquired by the Transport Development Group are also held at the Centre as part of the same deposit. The Centre also holds records relating to the Transport Development Group itself acquired from various sources.