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Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Transport |
Local
- Single mss sheet of corresp between Lord Carlisle and the Deputy Lieutenants concerning militia tax and payment of militia officers in Cumberland and Westmorland; Thomas Boustead Nelson accounts ledger and cash book of shares and investments incl railways shares and mortgages rel to various properties in Carlisle and deeds rel to Sibson family c1683-1939 (Q/MIL/5/1/1; DX 1388; DX 2376)
- Cromford Canal Co: Langley Mill permit books with loose pages (various dates) c1822-1848 (D501)
- Bournemouth Transport Ltd: archive of the company - known locally as Yellow Buses 20th-21st cent (11861)
- Taff Vale Railway Company: records incl agreements, workmen's compensation files rel to accidents, maintenance and renewals records 19th-20th cent (DTVR)
- South American Saint Line, Cardiff: 'Reef Knot', the house magazine 1947-1954 (D1874)
- Bundles of plans rel to railways, incl correspondence and leases concerning quarries 1885-1912 (D15985)
- Penllwyn Railway Company: file of corresp c1824-1922 (D6691)
- Horace Alfred Gamble, (1922-2021), poet, artist, photographer and founder member of the Leicester Railway Society: papers including
biographical details, photographs and sketches, watercolours & ephemera during his time serving in the Royal Navy (1943-1946); photographic slide of Leicestershire, Rutland and overseas c1945-2021 (DE10404; DE10295)
- Beagle Aircraft Ltd, light aircraft manufacturers, Rearsby & Shoreham: technical drawings c1950-1969 (DE10483)
- Palmer & Ward Garage, Leicester: records including photographs, plan, receipts and instructions on the death of partners c1930-1979 (DE10301)
- London, Midland and Scottish Railway: photographs, plans and postcards of Uppingham & Seaton branch line c1890-1973 (DE10490)
- Lincoln railway plans 1845 (LCL/RAILWAY PLANS 54-55)
- Torridge New Bridge and Bideford by pass scheme: plans 1970-1980 (B1475)
- Travel Wright Ltd, tour operator, Newark: accounts, correspondence, brochures, vehicle maintenance register, news cuttings, office diaries, deeds of partnership, plan and lease of 17 Baldertongate, Newark 1939-2022 (DD/2823)
- Peckham and Environs Action on the Rail Link (PEARL): records rel to the campaign to prevent the Channel Tunnel Rail Link running through Peckham and Camberwell, generated by and to PEARL, British Rail and associated correspondence 1988-1989 (2021/10)
- George Bennie (1891-1957), owner of George Bennie Airspeed Railway Ltd: books, pamphlets, photocopied material, photographs, corresp, news cuttings, minutes, memoranda, extracts documenting the administrative running of the company with ephemera rel to the construction of the mile long test run in Milngavie 1926-1951 (1,001,057)
- Baybridge Canal Co: records 1825-1875 (20166)
National
- Robert Cochrane (1804-1891): travel journal, with accounts of travels in Europe and a round the world tour 1865-1871 (Acc.14386)
- Henry Lambert (1833-1902), General Manager of the Great Western Railway: From King's Cross to Euston via the Caledonian Canal, Tour journal of Henry Lambert. 1892 (Acc.14414)
- Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely (b1967), politician: papers rel to the passage of the Wales Act 2017 through the House of Lords, where she led on the bill for the Labour Party 2016
- Campaign for Better Transport: archive collection, incl minutes, reports, government white papers and evidence to Parliamentary committees, correspondence, legal papers, publications, press cuttings, photographic prints, negatives, posters and protest materials 1973-2017 (2022-276)
University
- Charles Aldenburg Bentinck, (1810-1891), landowner, JP and son of Vice-Admiral William Bentinck: travel diary recording visits to England, the Netherlands and New York 1832-1836 (MS 993/3)
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