Link Line (Continental) Limited, earlier Continental Seaways Limited

Minutes of directors' meetings and annual general meetings; registers of seals, transfers and members, etc.

This company was formed as Continental Seaways Limited in 1944, the principal shareholders being the Tyne-Tees Shipping Company Limited of Newcastle upon Tyne. Its name was changed to Link Line (Continental) Limited in July 1962. It was acquired by Coast Lines Limited in 1962 and by P and O in 1971. In 1973 it was sold to the national road haulage and warehousing company, the Transport Development Group.

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

These records were deposited in 1986 by the advisory service of the Business Archives Council, which had acquired them in 1985.

Link to full catalogue: https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/CSL

Other records of companies acquired by the Transport Development Group are also held at the Centre as part of the same deposit. The Centre also holds records relating to the Transport Development Group itself acquired from various sources.