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Adress list Calcutta 1940..

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1880s Calcutta Old Court house str.

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1915s Old court house str.
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Registered Companys in Calcutta..

APPENDIX I
SOME TYPES OF GOVERNMENTAL AND PRIVATE CONTRACTS HELD BY LEADING RETAIL FIRMS IN CALCUTTA, 1880-1920

Firm Business Contracts Warrant Holder*
Cooke & Kelvey jewellers presentation watches, —
clocks to Indian and
provincial govts.; office
and railway clocks
Deschamps & Co. furniture furniture, decorating —•
makers
Great Eastern provisioners wholesale supply to
Stores plantations
Hall & Anderson department furnishers to royal visitors
store and viceroys
Hamilton & Co. jewellers state jewellery for princes; —
presentation pieces for
govt. offices; auction
contracts for G. of India
and princes
Kellner & Co. provisioners, caterers for durbars, state
wine occasions; railway catering;
merchants, Royal Calcutta Turf Club;
caterers race meet caterers
Lazarus & Co. cabinet corporation office decorations;
makers club furniture: billiard tables
Leslie & Co. hardware war material, 1914-18 war G. of
merchants India; typewriters for govt. &
corporate offices
Walter Locke & Co . electrical ceiling fans for govt. offices;
goods, sport- safes and meters for municipal
ing goods councils; electrical work for
Govt. of India
Manton & Co. gun makers gun supply to Indian princes;
service to Indian Army
Morrison & bootmakers & saddles etc. for Princes; leather
Cottle saddlers items for clubs, police forces
Phelps & Co. tailors, design of uniforms for Indian —
outfitters Army
Rankin & Co. tailors early design uniforms for
Indian Army; robemakers for
official decorative orders
Stewart & Co. carriage state carriages for princes;
makers Indian government
Thacker, Spink publishers, government publications &
&Co. booksellers sales
*Holder of royal or official warrant; entitled to state "by appointment to. . . ." Includes appointment to British royalty and Indian viceroys, lieutenant-governors, governors.
SOURCES: Trade directors, advertisements, W.H.M. Cameron (compiler), Ports and Cities of the World.

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