Thomas+Duff+&+Co

=[|Thomas Duff & Company Limited]=

Company Number: SC001272 Date of Incorporation: 16 August 1883 Contact Details: c/o Messrs Cram Worsley, Robertson & Taylor Ca, 41 Reform Street, Dundee, DD1 1SH Operating Details: Dissolved (no date available at present) Other names (if known): Function of Company*: Preparation & spin of other textiles (1725) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Dundee Area of Operation: Calcutta, India


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

Records
Held By: University of Dundee Archive Services, GB 0254 MS86/V

Scope/type: Directors’ minutes 1883-1945; ledgers 1930-1973; cash books/journals 1922-1959; balance sheets/directors’ reports 1918-1959; memoranda and articles of association 1874-1901, 1908, 1932, 1948 and 1964; letter books and files 1888-1946; managers’ reports to the directors 1930-1974; employees records ca 1913-1970; sales and production records 1945-1977; files relating to the modernisation and electrification of the Indian jute mills 1944-1971; files relating to the reconstruction of Thomas Duff & Co as registered in India 1947-1950; miscellaneous records ca 1880s-1890s; drawings relating to jute processing but not linked to specified company; plans of property in Dundee 1865-1923.

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Related records: See the records of other Jute manufacturers in Dundee University Archvies

Company History
Having previously worked as manager of the Borneo Co, Thomas Duff founded the firm in 1883 to act as agents for the Samnuggur Jute Factory Co and the Titaghur Jute Factory Co, two Calcutta Jute mill companies founded by Thomas Duff in 1873 and 1883 respectively. They took on the agency of the Victoria Jute Factory Co in 1888 and that of the Angus Company in 1933.

In 1948 Thomas Duff & Company Ltd, was reconstructed and registered as the Indian company Thomas Duff & Co (India) Private Ltd with Thomas Duff & Company Ltd, as a wholly owned subsidiary. The Indian Company continued to be the managing agents for the Titaghur Group Companies and still maintained the Dundee office at Meadow House in conjunction with the Titaghur Jute Factory Co Ltd and A & S Henry & Co (Dundee) Ltd until 1983. The companies involved in Titaghur were latterly under the control of Azmara PLC (the holding company) until Azmara lost control of its property to its tenants in India over the course of 2001.The company has subsequently been dissolved.

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