Miscellaneous documents, photographs and notebooks

File containing documents, photographs and notebooks from various decades. Notebooks used by Kenneth Cantlie during locomotive performance testing and Giesl Ejector testing include three notebooks for Benguela Railway (1964?), Spain, Nigeria and Ghana (1960s) and East African Railways and Benguela Railways (1962), containing notes on test performance, names of staff from different railway companies, lists for packing, brief meeting notes etc. Some notebooks are visibly sooty and burned by embers and were likely used while travelling on the footplate. A meeting notebook 1939-1940 is from Cantlie's time at War Office; two small pocket notebooks from 1930s; one with Cantlie's name and address as Caledonian Club containing notes from 1933 about boiler proportions for Railway Gazette and the other from 1935 notes on Chinese Government Ministry of Railways and Ministry of Finance (both filled half way and also containing doodles by a child). Two envelopes of photographs from 1942, one containing photographs of gun spurs near a railway line, the other photographs and negatives from Kent where Cantlie was stationed when in charge of Railways and rail mounted cross-channel guns (Hugh Cantlie's description) with one image of his team and names at the back. One bundle of miscellaneous photographs from 1980s including Cantlie receiving a model locomotive at Crewe and handing over of 4-8-4 KF engine at the NRM in the 1980s, photocopy of Rail Staff article Great Railway People 2001 on Kenneth Cantlie, a collection of slides of steam locomotives, including details of KF 4-8-4.

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CANT/1/130
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