Scottish+Boiler+and+General

=[|Scottish Boiler and General Insurance Company Limited]=

Company Number: SC001054 Date of Incorporation: 16 September 1881 Contact Details: Pitheavlis, Perth, PH2 0NH Operating Details: Listed as active, though part of the Aviva Group Other names (if known): Scottish Boiler Insurance and Engine Inspection Company Ltd Function of Company*: Non-life Insurance (6603) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Glasgow Area of Operation: Agencies and branches in major UK towns and cities (including Manchester, Birmingham and Cardiff by the early 1900s). From 1919 there was a branch in Sydney, Australia.


 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Records
Held By: [|Aviva group Archives], Surrey House, Norwich GB 2070

Scope/type: The Aviva archive contains records relating to the running of the Scottish Boiler and General Insurance Company between 1881 and 1997. The collection includes agenda books, share consolidation lists, board minutes, share ledgers, memoranda and articles of association, promotional material, seal registers, annual reports and accounts, press cuttings, circulars, specimen policies, proposals, surveyors notebooks and registers of transfers.

Conditions governing access/use: Access is by appointment only, and at the discretion of the group archivist. Access to customer records less than 100 years old and company records less than 30 years old is closed except in very special circumstances. Access will only be granted on the understanding that the reader is engaged in bona fide historical research, and that the information extracted will not be used against the company or go beyond the agreed subject of research. For further information on specific searchroom rules please see []

Related records: Reports on public boilers and some court case records held in the National Archives of Scotland.

Company History
The company was established by John Drummond Young to "insure boilers against explosion or collapse, the testing of new boilers by hydraulic pressure, the superintendence of the erection of new engines, and the repairs of those in use".

Its first claim was paid to Henry Kennedy of Barrowfield Pottery in 1882. In 1889 the company purchased the patent for the Lancashire fusible plug. On March 1 1920, the company's name was changed to the Scottish Boiler and General Insurance Company Ltd and, by 1968, it was operating the group engineering business for the Yorkshire. It would later fulfil the same role for the General Accident Fire Assurance Corporation, which acquired the Yorkshire that year.

Information taken from Aviva Group Archives website, reused with permission