| Description | Most papers fall in 1932 and appear to stem from a concern by the Principal, Kenneth Oswald Peppiatt, to establish the extent of the involvement, through endorsing bills or acceptance business, of accepting houses in firms, mostly foreign, which had failed. Material includes notes from branches about failures of firms operating in their areas, sometimes of branch customers; and, from 1938, statistics on failures in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland by Richard Seyd. Accounts of failures and banks' involvement in failed companies are mainly in the form of press-cuttings and notes of interviews with bankers. |