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Major Accessions to Repositories 1994 relating to Transport
National, Special and University
- Rhys Probert, aeronautical engineer, Director Royal
Aircraft Establishment: papers 1958-80 (PROB)
- Frank Lester Harwood: memoirs, articles and photographs rel
to service with Sudan Railways and Steamers 1923-48 (G/S
1099)
- Richard Leslie Hill, Sudan Railways employee from 1929:
working papers, incl corresp, diaries, maps, photographs,
microfilms and slides (G/S 1103)
- Jeffrey Kindersley Quill: papers rel to his career as a test
pilot and to the aircraft industry 1936-83
- Thomas Brassey, railway engineer: letters (2) rel to Taw
Vale Railway 1850
- Samuel Clegg (1781-1861) and Samuel Clegg (1814-1856),
engineers: letters (2) to T Sopwith rel to their
atmospheric railway
- Bjerrum & Partners: Berkhamstead footbridge and road bridge
calculations
- A E Beers & Wilson Lovatt & Sons: drawings, calculations,
etc, regarding Stockwell Bus Garage 1849-52
- Clement Lempriere, military cartographer: map entitled A
description of the Highlands of Scotland, the situation of
the several clans & the number of men able to bear arms, as
also ye forts lately erected & roads of communication or
military ways carried on by his Majestys command ... 1731
(Acc 11104)
- British Aircraft Corporation: drawings registers, servicing
records and other papers rel to experimental aircraft BAC
221, Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel and Hunting H126 1960s (AC
94/6)
- Avro Lancaster: description of the Lancaster bomber prepared
by the manufacturer for Sir Charles Craven, Controller-
General, Ministry of Aircraft Production, incl performance
charts and photographs (AC 94/26)
- Project brochures submitted to the Air Ministry and its
successors by various British aircraft companies, detailing
their responses to aircraft specifications 1950s-60s (AC
94/27)
- Civil Aviation Authority: files rel to aviation in
agriculture (DX58)
- Albums (4) of photographs and illustrative cuttings and
advertisements rel to motor cars 1890s-1910 (MS 219/1-4)
- Renard road trains: photograph album including views in
France, India and California, and of War Office trials c1907-
10s (MS 222)
- Apollo 11: final flight plan AS-506/CSM-107/LM-5/National
Aeronautics and Space Administration 1 July 1969 (MS 546)
- The 18 hp Germain Chassis: pen and ink technical drawing
1900-01 (MS 1489)
- Photograph album, mainly of cyclists, cycling clubs and
bicycles c1880s (MS 220)
- Peter Rothwell Jackson: lithograph of Hydraulic Starting
Apparatus 1848 (MSL 170)
- Bernard Russell: The Trend to Standardization: Product
Development in the British Motor Cycle Industry 1896-1916
PhD thesis 1986 (MS 548)
- Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost: photographs c1922 (MS 1488/2-6)
- Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway: directors copy
of folio atlas of plans of proposed extension line from
Woolvercot, near Oxford, to Brentford, with a branch
therefrom 1851 (MS 223)
- State Steamship Co, Glasgow: plans of SS Pennsylvania,
Virgina, Georgia, Nevada, Florida built by Harland & Wolff,
Govan 1870s (MSR 120)
- Warwick & Birmingham Canal: manuscript drawing book by P H
Wilton c1794 (MS 554)
- A Plan shewing the Line of the proposed navigation from
Bishops Stortford, through part of Essex, Cambridgeshire and
Suffolk to the Brandon River, on the border of Norfolk
surveyed by John Rennie engraved and published by William
Faden, March 8 1790 (MSR 124)
- London and Morpeth mail Road Index Map 1827 surveyed by
Thomas Telford and drawn by L Herbert (MSR 126)
- J W E Kelly: A History of Veloce Ltd, Motor Cycle
Manufacturers, Hall Green, Birmingham PhD thesis 1979
(MS 553)
- Star Engineering Co Ltd: photograph album c1912 (MS 536)
- Photograph album, mainly of omnibuses of Thomas Tilling Ltd
(MS 537)
- Walter Laas, Royal High School, Berlin: manuscript
translation by James Hayes of The Evolution & Future of
Large Sailing Ships 1908
- William John Bastard (c1826-99): album of newspaper cuttings
relating to an airship
- Orient Steam Navigation Co: photographs (4) of engines of
the SS Orient c1890 (MSL 145/1-4)
- Mclagan Railway Collection (addnl): papers 1948-93 (GD1/905)
- British Railway Board: forms for reduced fares for
theatrical companies and for music hall artistes 1908 and
misc papers (94/2295)
- BMW acquisition of Rover: cuttings file with contributions
from the German press (MSS.226X)
- National Cycle Archive: records of Cyclists Touring Club,
incl Finance and Rights and Privileges committees minutes,
legal papers. Misc papers, incl lecture notes of N Whall
(Hodites) rel to inter-war Continental cycle touring;
papers of Alex Josey, former editor of Cycling Weekly, incl
the contents of a scrapbook rel to the Essex Cycling Union
Ltd; papers rel to clubs, events, makers and accessories
(MSS 328)
Local Repositories in England
- Bristol Tug Fleets: papers c1860-1976 (Acc 40610)
- Bristol Steam Navigation Co: papers 1924-93 (Acc 40621)
- Plan of Birkenhead Docks 1844 (D 4971)
- Cheshire Lines Committee: track plans 19th-20th cent (NPR
5024)
- Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering, Barrow: photographs
(214) of ships, submarines and ships models, including
Colossus aircraft carriers; Stratheden and other ships, incl
Graph, captured German submarine, 20th cent (BDP 56)
- Settle-Carlisle Joint Action Committee: minutes, reports and
corresp 1983-88 (WDSO/195)
- Teignmouth Harbour Commission: harbour dues account book and
day book 1797-1841, import books 1906-48, export books 1920-
48 (D3258 add 3)
- Exeter, Teign Valley & Chagford Railway Co: registers of
shareholders c1866-22, registers of debentures and stock
c1879-1923, registers of shares c1894-1923, alphabetical
register of proprietors 19th cent (D5150)
- Eddystone Lighthouse: plans 19th cent (Acc 1835)
- Victoria Wharf, Plymouth: records 19th-20th cent (Acc 1637)
- Torrey Canyon: clean-up log 1967 (Acc 1610)
- Great Eastern Railway: Record of tickets sold at Chelmsford
1877-78 (A/LGe addl)
- Clacton Lifeboat: returns of Service made to RNLI 1884-90,
1900-06 (D/Q 62)
- Shipconstructors and Shipwrights Association: minutes 1956-
70 (D/Z 257)
- Automobile Association, Basingstoke: financial records 1920-
64 (73M94)
- British Railways Board (addnl): Southern Region traffic
officers conference minutes 1946-60; plans of stations and
tracks throughout the LSWR and Southern region 1880s-1990s
(67M90)
- Stephen Ballard, railway and canal engineer: transcripts of
diaries 1804-59 (BG 37)
- Patrington Haven: photocopy plan 1824 (DDX)
- Grimsby and Cleethorpes Transport, and predecessors: corresp
and reports 1935-86 (366 additional)
- Ernest Watson Ellis, seaman, Grimsby: papers 1900-44 (1011)
- Great Central Railway: Grimsby docks memoranda book 1905-37
(1001)
- Provincial Tramways Co Ltd: corresp 1899-1941 (330)
- Great Grimsby Street Tramways Co Ltd: corresp 1897-1934
(330)
- Sandown Airport: log books (2)1967-9 (94/15)
- F Hall, Local secretary of National Union of Railwaymen,
Chatham: out-letter book 1934-35 (DE 371)
- Auster Autocar: test report 1954 (DE 4493)
- Main Line Steam Trust (Great Central Railway): quarry and
light railway plans 1876-89 (DE 4500)
- Croydon-Reigate Turnpike Trust: share books (3),
trustees declaration book, and memoranda book 1808-71
(AR66)
- Gatton Lodge-Povey Cross Turnpike Trust: trustees
declaration book 1819-c1851 (AR66)
- Surrey & Sussex Turnpike Trust: account book of tolls
taken in 1844 (AR66)
- British Tanker Company, shipping company: apprentices
journal 1950-51 (MS 29577)
- Corporation of Trinity House (addnl): records 19th-20th cent
- Pope & Sons, carriers, Hammersmith: records 1832-1923
(DD/873)
- Bury County Borough, Tramways Dept: wage books 1903-04
(ABU add 011T)
- Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway: plans (A19/ADD)
- Manchester Docks: plan (Q230)
- Manchester Ship Canal Co: plans of grain silos, poems and
reminiscences (B1O/ADD)
- Rochdale & Manchester Ship Canal Co: photographs (Q2311)
- London & North Western Railway and Lees Station: papers
1888-91 (1994.005)
- Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: draft plan of
Metrolink, Manchester to Ashton 1993 (2459)
- Glossop, Hollingworth & Stalybridge Railway: plans by T
Barch 1866 (2499)
- South Lancs Tramways: glass plate negatives of Howe
Bridge Depot 1933 (2909)
- Locomotive patent 1841 (5075)
- James Watt, engineer: letter books 1779-1819 and incoming
corresp 1761-1819, incl corresp with many of the leading
men of science in Britain and Western Europe; diaries,
account and memoranda books 1757-1817, incl experiment
notebook 1783; records rel to instrument making c1755-70,
surveying c1755-74, steam engines 1698-1809; legal papers
rel to steam engine patents 1769-1808; records rel to
copying machines 1780; engineering drawings 1809-18 (JWP)
- James Watt, engineer and steamboat pioneer: press copy
letter books 1794-1817 and incoming corresp 1788-1837
(JWP)
- Midland Sailing Club: records 1894-1978 (MS 1862)
- Walsall Borough: vehicle licensing registers 1957-74 (Acc
809)
- Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council: vehicle
licensing registers early 20th cent-1976
- Heron Hudson of Wolverhampton: grant of patent for
improvements to railway machinery 1868
- Ashington Colliery Railway: records 1888-1965 (NRO 4521)
- Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen,
Ipswich Branch: minutes 1906-20 (GG 412)
- The Wey Navigation & Godalming Navigation (addnl): deeds and
papers 1832-1982 (5259)
- Rye Harbour and Romney Marsh: map 1594 (Acc 6364)
- Witherington & Everitt, shipowners, Newcastle: ship
voyage files 1924-40 (2880)
- Port of Tyne Authority: plans, mainly of the North and
South Pier 1870s-1930s (2914)
- Vickers Armstrong Walker Yard: plans of ships built 1947-
68 (2924)
- Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd: records 19th-20th cent
(2931)
- Crew lists and agreements, accounts of voyages and log
books for ships registered at Middlesbrough, Scarborough,
Stockton and Whitby 1857, 1861-1867, 1872 (MIC 2966-70,
2972, 2974-75; NG/RS)
- Motor taxation records: vehicles registered DVN 1-999,
EAJ 1-999, EPY 1-999, EVN 1-999, FAJ 1-999 (MIC 2749);
vehicles registered FPY 1-999, FVN 1-999, GAJ 1-999, GPY
1-999, GVN 1-999 (MIC 2816); vehicles registered HAJ 1-
999, HPY 1-999, HVN 1-999, JAJ 1-999, JPY 1-999, JVN 1-
999 (MIC 2843) 1921-78 (NRCC/LT)
- Plans of railways and canals deposited with the clerk of
the peace (MIC 2750-51, 2794, 2840-42, 2844, 2863, 2909,
2916, 2951-52, 2963-64; QDP)
- Railway papers 1836-1900 (MIC 2786, 2806; ZDS)
Local Repositories in Wales
- Annie Lloyd: shipping records from Porthmadog 19th-early
20th cent (XM9530, XS3772)
- Captain John Evans (1858-1933): copy of manuscript rel to
shipping matters in Gwynedd ports (XM9799)
- Xanthippe: ships log book and crew lists 1860s (TSR/11)
- Brecon & Merthyr Tydfil Railway Co, Barry Railway Co and
Vale of Glamorgan Railway Co: share registers and
miscellaneous records 20th cent (1994/53)
- South East Wales Pilotage Authority: records 20th cent
(1994/68)
- Cardiff Pilotage Authority (addnl): records, incl
minutes, photographs and register of births, marriages
and deaths of Cardiff pilots 1807-1968 (1994/97)
- William Leon of Cardiff: letter book rel to Local
maritime History 1902-18 (1994/97)
- Briton Ferry Docks Co, Dulais Valley Mineral Railway Co,
Neath & Brecon Railway Co, Port Talbot Railway & Dock Co,
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Co, Swansea Harbour
Trust, Vale of Neath Railway: registers of shareholders
and probate registers 1847-1923 (D/D PRO BRB)
- Account of a voyage from Swansea to Valparaiso 1848 (D/D
Z 195)
Local Repositories in Scotland
- Inverness Port of Registry: registers of ships and
fishing boats 1786-1985 (HRA/D217)
- Canal Boatmens Institute, Glasgow: records 1950s-60s
(TD1301)
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