'Debits and credits - trading east - financial needs and necessities. A Scottish perspective' in O Checkland et al (eds), Pacific Banking, 1859-1959. East meets West

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  • Name Finance of production & trade
  • Name General trading cos

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Explores in general terms the records of Scottish firms trading with the East for details of the ways in which they managed and financed their transactions [buying, selling, financing, etc] there, either via agency houses or connected - often family - houses. Focuses especially on James Finlay & Co and John Lean & Sons who here are described as calico printers