River and Mercantile Trust Records

Records of the River Plate Trust Loan and Agency Company Ltd, 1874-1983, including minutes, ledgers, registers, accounts, annual reports, legal documents, insurance records, staff records, letters and files, some relating to subordinate companies (Ref: A); and records of the subsidiary companies it administered: River Plate and General Investment Company Ltd, comprising minutes, 1888-1965, ledgers, 1888-1941, and annual reports, 1889-1983 (Ref: B) Mortgage Company of the River Plate Ltd, comprising minutes, 1888-1965, ledgers, 1888-1953, and annual reports, 1888-1981 (Ref: C) Compagnie Française des Chemins de Fer de la Province de Santa Fé, comprising circulars to bondholders, 1891-1947, and reports, 1936-1947 (Ref: D) London Trust Company, comprising ledgers, 1889-1928, registers of stock, 1889-1958, and miscellaneous papers, 1819-1974 (Ref: E) Entre Rios Railway Company, comprising reports, 1891-1900, and circulars and minutes, 1933-1947 (Ref: F) Cucuta Railway Company, comprising Presidents' reports, 1926-1936 (Ref: G) Montevideo Waterworks, comprising reports and accounts, 1880-1940, and notices and circulars, 1949-1953 (Ref: H) Consolidated Waterworks of Rosario, comprising reports and accounts, 1897-1946, and notices and circulars, 1930-1955 (Ref: J) Rosario Drainage Company, comprising reports and accounts, 1898-1947, and notices and circulars, 1955 (Ref: K) Buenos Aires Central Railway, comprising minutes, 1916-1944 (Ref: L) Buenos Aires and Lacroze Tramways, comprising minutes, 1932-1940, and reports and accounts, 1933-1941 (Ref: M).

A further deposit comprised of notes made from the archives of the River Plate Trust Loan and Agency Company by Charles and Linda Jones in 1972 prior to the destruction of the archive and a short account of the original records and the work undertaken, was deposited in 2017. The original material, from which the notes were made, dated from c1882-1917.

The River Plate Trust Loan and Agency Company Ltd (founded in 1881), which administered various companies in South America, was succeeded in 1961 by the River Plate and Mercantile Trust Ltd, and which then became the River and Mercantile Trust PLC in 1962.

A handlist has been used to create the RMT catalogue on Calm, keeping the same structure.

Certain restrictions apply

Some files in this collection have not been checked for personal data but will be checked in response to any request to view material (those files with access status 'Certain restrictions apply'). See the individual files for more detail. We may require four weeks' notice in advance of making an appointment to allow sufficient time for data protection checking, please allow extra time for this. Some files may be restricted or closed if they are found to contain personal data of living individuals.

Deposited by Rivermoor Management Services Ltd (manager of the River and Mercantile Trust PLC) in 1984.

A detailed catalogue is available on the online catalogue. A handlist has been used to create this catalogue, and there should also be additional handwritten listing sheets in the staff file (hard copy). These additional sheets should provide more detail for the sections A/29/2/C to A/38/5, and E/4/5 to M/2. See also 'A Guide to Manuscript Sources for the History of Latin America and the Caribbean in the British Isles', ed Peter Walne (Oxford University Press, London, 1973).

Any major work based on the archives must be submitted to Rivermoor Management Services Ltd.

Notes made from the archives of the River Plate Trust Loan and Agency Company by Charles and Linda Jones in 1972. The archives were destroyed by the firm when the firm was dissolved following the 1976 military coup. The original material, from which the notes were made, dated from c1882-1917.

Also includes a short account of the original records and the work undertaken by Charles and Linda Jones