Drawing office miscellaneous data and routine
- PART OF:
- Airship design and construction
- Made:
- 1917-05-30-1926-06-23
- part of archive:
- Papers of Sir Barnes Neville Wallis
The original file was marked Mr Wallis and titled ‘Drawing office miscellaneous data and routine’. Contains a typed index which lists the following categories: Aluminium; Atmosphere; Coslettizing; Chafing; Calculations; Duralumin; Drawings; Engines; Eyes; Gasbags and outer covers; Gear teeth; Hydrogen; Humidity; Height characteristics; One part drawings; Propeller testing machine; Pins; Purity; Rarer elements; Rejected work; Regulation sheets; Rivets; Steels; Section letters; Spars; Stresses; Springs; Schelling; Trials; Wheel teeth; Wires; Wire fastenings; Works. The specifications, instructions and procedures, arranged alphabetically, include:
- Standard data for airship calculations issued by the Air Council, January 1921
- Routine chart for admiralty drawing, showing the order of processes which needs to be followed
- Document entitled ‘Manufacture of gasbags and outer covers for rigid airships’, dated 09/04/1918
- Handwritten notes entitled ‘Decisions given by Mr Wallis re new system’
- Vickers Limited Airship drawing Office regulation, routine and data sheets, issued to all Draughtsmen
- Airships trials division of duties
Details
- Extent:
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1 file
- Identifier:
- BNW/B/2/1
- Access:
- Open Access
- copyright:
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