Second+Alliance+Trust

=The Second Alliance Trust Limited=

Company Number: SC001284 Date of Incorporation: 3 October 1883 Contact Details: 8 West Marketgait, Dundee, DD1 1QN Operating Details: Active (though it has now merged with Alliance Trust) Other names (if known): Western and Hawaiian Investment Company (1883-1918) Function of Company*: Other business activities (7487), though functioned as an investment trust Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Dundee Area of Operation: UK wide, initial connections with American investors


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

Records
Held By: [|University of Dundee Archive Services], uncatalogued as yet

Scope/type: Corporate records: minute books 1927-2003; annual returns 1947-1958; circulars 1921-1932; shareholders records - ordinary, preference and a shareholders: register of ordinary preference and a shareholders nd; register of confirmations and probate nd; register of transfers of stock c1918-1957; dividend lists 1933-1966; closed shareholders accounts 1924-1966; register of renunciations 1964-1965; shareholders records - debenture shareholders: register of debenture shareholders 1937-c1956; register of debentures c1931-c1969; register of transfers of debenture stock c1933-1956; register of transfers of terminable debenture stock nd; debenture maturity records 1941-1969; register of repaid debentures 1929-1964; register of repaid terminable debentures (1938-1946); register of debenture closed accounts 1942-1985; renewed/converted debentures 1945-1951; debenture payments 1937-1954; terminable debenture and deposit lists 1939-1969; end of year records: balance sheets 1918-1980; legal papers: trust deeds 1921-1961; agreements folders 1897-1938; miscellaneous legal documents 1912-1966; borrowing records: short loan records 1931-1979; deposits receipts ledger 1963-1979; management records: 1957-1969; agency records: property lists 1918-1966; agency journals 1927-1963; agency closed accounts registers 1927-1946; mortgages and loans records: abstracts of loans 1918-1925; letters of indemnity 1960-1967; mortgage applications and correspondence c 1918-1963; investment records: closed accounts nd; investments/securities registers nd, 1939-1966; investments purchases and sales register nd; accounting records: general ledger 1926-1988; general journals nd; general cash books nd, 1947-1974 revenue cash books nd; dollar cash books nd; press cuttings: 1895-1937; stock certificates nd.

Conditions governing access/use: These records are held privately, and their access is restricted. All enquiries should be addressed to The Registrar, National Register of Archives for Scotland, HM General Register House, Edinburgh, EH1 3YY

Related records: See Alliance Trust records NRAS 4188

Company History
In 1880 a shipbuilder Alexander Gourlay returned home from Australia via Hawaii. He joined with other business men Alexander Gilroy, Thomas Bell, Alexander Thomson, David Little John, and John Shepherd to form the Hawaiian Investment and Agency Company to lend money to sugar estates in Hawaii. The company changed its name to the Western and Hawaiian Investment Company in 1883 when it branched into North America. For several years five of the seven agencies had been shared with The Alliance Trust, and when one of the managers of the Western and Hawaiian Investment company became ill the trust agreed to share premises, management, staff and administration costs with The Alliance Trust in 1918. The Company was subsequently renamed the Second Alliance Trust, and it was intended that it would merge with The Alliance Trust when the time was right. However, despite sharing many board members, this did not happen until 2006. The company's offices were situated in Reform Street, Dundee.

With thanks to the NRAS for their permission to use this material