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General Correspondence - Suez Canal
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Object details
ID:
P&O/17
Type:
Manuscript
Display location:
Not on display
Credit:
On loan from the P&O Heritage Collection
Parts:
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (Manuscript)
Board Minutes and Agenda (Manuscript) (P&O/1)
Committee Minutes (Manuscript) (P&O/2)
Board Papers (Manuscript) (P&O/3)
Departmental & Agency Reports (Manuscript) (P&O/4)
General Accounts. (Manuscript) (P&O/5)
Reports to Shareholders (Manuscript) (P&O/6)
General Circulars, Fleet Orders and Regulations (Manuscript) (P&O/7)
Instructions for Commanders, Deck Officers and Cadets (Manuscript) (P&O/8)
Instructions for Engineers (Manuscript) (P&O/9)
Instructions for Pursers, Clerks and Stewards (Manuscript) (P&O/10)
General Correspondence - Government Letters (Manuscript) (P&O/11)
General Correspondence -Confidential and Private Letters (Manuscript) (P&O/12)
General Correspondence - Egypt Letters (Manuscript) (P&O/13)
General Correspondence -Australia Line (Manuscript) (P&O/14)
General Correspondence - Peninsular & Levant (Manuscript) (P&O/15)
General Correspondence - Oriental Letters (Manuscript) (P&O/16)
General Correspondence - Suez Canal (Manuscript) (P&O/17)
General Correspondence - Foreign Letters Correspondence Department (Manuscript) (P&O/18)
General Correspondence - Siberia (Manuscript) (P&O/19)
General Correspondence - General Letters (Manuscript) (P&O/20)
General Correspondence - Bound General Letters (Manuscript) (P&O/21)
General Correspondence - Stockholders (Manuscript) (P&O/22)
General Correspondence - Board meetings (Manuscript) (P&O/23)
Stocks, Shares & Debentures - Registers (Manuscript) (P&O/24)
Stocks, Shares & Debentures - Exchange of Shares with Subsidiaries (Manuscript) (P&O/25)
Stocks, Shares & Debentures - Transfers (Manuscript) (P&O/26)
Stocks, Shares & Debentures - Conversion & Redemption of Debentures (Manuscript) (P&O/27)
Stocks, Shares & Debentures - Dividends (Manuscript) (P&O/28)
Stocks, Shares & Debentures - Legal & general circulars: correspondence & counterfoils (Manuscript) (P&O/29)
Papers Relating to Royal Charters & Mail Contracts (Manuscript) (P&O/30)
Papers relating to Amalgamations & Acquisitions (Manuscript) (P&O/31)
Registration of P&O Companies abroad (Manuscript) (P&O/32)
Agencies. (Manuscript) (P&O/33)
Insurance (Manuscript) (P&O/34)
Subsidiary Companies (Manuscript) (P&O/35)
Auditors' Reports (Manuscript) (P&O/36)
Overseas Reports (Manuscript) (P&O/37)
Directors' Reference Books (Manuscript) (P&O/38)
Planning & Finance (Manuscript) (P&O/39)
Ships' Movements - Nautical Reports (Manuscript) (P&O/40)
Ships' Movements - Services, Timetables, Schedules (Manuscript) (P&O/41)
Ships' Movements - Monthly Timetables (Manuscript) (P&O/42)
Ships' Movements - Papers relating to Timetables & Passage Times (Manuscript) (P&O/43)
Ships' Movements - Cruising Schedules; Programmes (Manuscript) (P&O/44)
Ships' Movements - Movement Books, Lists (Manuscript) (P&O/45)
Ships' Movements - Log Books (Manuscript) (P&O/46)
Ship Management - F I Geddes File (Manuscript) (P&O/47)
Left vacant for possible additions. (Manuscript) (P&O/48)
Left vacant for possible additions. (Manuscript) (P&O/49)
Legal Matters (Manuscript) (P&O/50)
Legal Matters - Agreements (Manuscript) (P&O/51)
Shipping Conference Papers (Manuscript) (P&O/52)
Information Manuals (Manuscript) (P&O/53)
Seminars & Conferences (Manuscript) (P&O/54)
Analysis Books - Subsidiaries (Manuscript) (P&O/55)
Left vacant for possible additions. (Manuscript) (P&O/56)
Left vacant for possible additions. (Manuscript) (P&O/57)
Left vacant for possible additions. (Manuscript) (P&O/58)
Left vacant for possible additions. (Manuscript) (P&O/59)
Papers relating to Design and Construction of Ships (Manuscript) (P&O/60)
Plans (Manuscript) (P&O/61)
Fleet Lists (Manuscript) (P&O/62)
Ships - General Information, Sales and Purchase (Manuscript) (P&O/63)
Ships - Registers, Dimensions & Capacities (Manuscript) (P&O/64)
Ships - Individual Ships (Manuscript) (P&O/65)
Ships - Diaries (Manuscript) (P&O/66)
Ships - Reports (Manuscript) (P&O/67)
Cargo Documents (Manuscript) (P&O/68)
Troopers & Armed Merchant Cruisers (Manuscript) (P&O/69)
Passengers' Records (Manuscript) (P&O/70)
Passage Department - Fares (Manuscript) (P&O/71)
Passage Department - Cabin Allocations (Manuscript) (P&O/72)
Passage Department - Passenger Lists & General Papers (Manuscript) (P&O/73)
Passage Department - Menu Cards (Manuscript) (P&O/74)
Staff - Officers' Registers (Manuscript) (P&O/75)
Staff - Engineers' Registers (Manuscript) (P&O/76)
Staff - Stewards' Registers (Manuscript) (P&O/77)
Staff - Petty Officers' Records (Manuscript) (P&O/78)
Staff - Certificates and Indentures (Manuscript) (P&O/79)
Staff - Salary Books, Shore Staff (Manuscript) (P&O/80)
Staff - Employees' Deposit Accounts (Manuscript) (P&O/81)
Staff - left vacant for possible additions. (Manuscript) (P&O/82)
Staff - Pensions & Payments (Manuscript) (P&O/83)
Staff - Claims, Allowances & Other Payments (Manuscript) (P&O/84)
P&O Dover Dispute (Manuscript) (P&O/85)
Staff- General Records - Reports & Training (Manuscript) (P&O/86)
Staff - General Records - Muster Rolls (Manuscript) (P&O/87)
Staff - General (Manuscript) (P&O/88)
Ports & Places (Manuscript) (P&O/89)
Properties (Manuscript) (P&O/90)
Miscellaneous (Manuscript) (P&O/91)
Diaries (Manuscript) (P&O/92)
Framed Documents (Manuscript) (P&O/93)
Unframed Documents - Mounted (Manuscript) (P&O/94)
Sketches, Pictures & Photographs (Manuscript) (P&O/95)
Publicity (Manuscript) (P&O/96)
Speeches, Lectures (Manuscript) (P&O/97)
Press Cuttings (Manuscript) (P&O/98)
Staff Journals (Manuscript) (P&O/99)
Personal Histories (Manuscript) (P&O/100)
Company History (Manuscript) (P&O/101)
The Canberra Award (Manuscript) (P&O/102)
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