In response to David Hay’s appeal concerning the above, there is a file at The National Archives (among the dissolved companies files) for the Oriental Telephone & Electric Co Ltd. Here is a link.

 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=6037811&CATLN=6&Highlight=%2CORIENTAL%2CTELEPHONE&accessmethod=0

 

A wider search of the Catalogue throws up a further ten hits, mainly to Colonial Office correspondence. So, sadly no records of the companies themselves, but there may be something among the materials here at Kew that might help your researcher.

 

Alex Ritchie
Business Archives Advice Manager
Archives Sector Development
The National Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

020 8392 5330 ext 2606
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