Reports on Saveoil creosoting machine, creosoting methods, suitability of timbers etc.

Made:
1914-1915
maker:
Great Northern Railway

Copy reports assembled by Lord Allerton of the GNR: experiments comparing the "Saveoil" process with the GNR's normal process and accompanying volume of photographs, October 1914; National Physical Laboratory report on tests on samples of 3 GNR sleepers creosoted under different processes; Prof. Percy Groom's report on the suitability of certain American woods as railway sleepers, April 1915; piece work earnings for men creosoting sleepers at Hall Hills works, April 1915; with some attendant correspondence.

Details

Category:
Documents
Object Number:
2005-7525
Materials:
cardboard and paper (fibre product)
type:
volume & papers