William Fisher (b 1930), cotton textile specialist: notebook compiled during the course of employment at the Shirley Institute in the Technical Department special cases team. The notebook is indexed by case number with individual company names recorded and each entry dated 1952-1954 (2020-458)
John Hetherington & Sons Ltd, cotton machinery manufacturers: catalogue of cotton spinning machinery, with illustrations 1911 (2020-374)
William E Appleby (c1910-1960), aircraft historian: folder containing material rel to a model of the ZETA fusion reactor at Harwell, incl a fold out plan titled “ZETA I, East Elevation”, a fold out diagram titled “Minnie Cruciform Distributor Frame Studs”, a list of 87 drawings for the model displayed at the Brussels World’s Fair compiled by Appleby for Miniature Engineering (London) Ltd, photographs (20) and newspaper cuttings 1958-1959 (2020-456)
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