Manchester Steam Users Association minute book 5

Manchester Steam Users’ Association minute book, October 1875-March 1882. Includes minutes of the Finance Committee and the Committee of Management, minutes of Annual Meetings, statements of account, published annual reports, and copies of published papers sent to the Home Secretary and other government departments.

Detail includes reports on numbers of persons killed by explosions from steam boilers, newspaper clippings from the Manchester Guardian, Examiner and Times, and Courier, and copies of memorials issued to the Home Secretary in 1876 and 1880 proposing new legislation to prevent loss of life from steam boiler explosions.