6 items Specification and arrangement drawings for composite sloops, with protected engines and boilers, 'Satellite', 'Heroine' and 'Hyacinth'
8 pages Licence agreement between Henry Bessemer and Robert Longsdon on the one hand and The Barrow Haematite Steel Company on the other
595 Assignment of Leasehold premises and Goodwill and Stock in trade of chemist and druggist's business at Bournemouth, Hants.
14 sheets Specification and arrangement drawings of twin-screw, iron-clad frigate 'Superb' renamed 'Alexandra'
Relates to Sayers's patent no. 111 of 1881 'Improved apparatus to be attached to ships to prevent them sinking'. Drawing of 'air log' device for preventing ships from sinking
Comprises: Vol. I Consecutive Loops 1...10; vol.II Consecutive Loops 11...50; vol. III Circulating Loops 1...4; vol. IV Circulating Loops 5...7; vol.V Circulating Loops 7...11; vol.VI Circulating Loops 11...28; vol.VII Circulating Loops 29...75. Vol.I contains index to all seven volumes. Volumes of drawings entitled: "Helical Epicycloids"
Comprises desing drawing of yachts Jullanar (26), Gulnare (16), and others (46). In 1885 Bentall launched 'Jullanar' which he had designed and had built at Heybridge Basin. All its metal fittings were made in his Heybridge Works and she was fitted out in nearby Wivenhoe. Its keel set a fashion that was in vogue for many years. Collection of yacht design drawings by E.H. Bentall
10 item Collection of patents and agreements relating to cable insulation developed by Edwin Truman and its use by George Crosland Taylor
1 volume Drawings and notes relating to a proposed coach for the Prince of Wales, Great Northern Railway
201 Letter from John Dixon discussing steam tests and experiments on the Stockton and Darlington Railway
Account of a walking holiday in Lancashire and Cumbria by William Barton Worthington (aged 23) and his brothers Edgar Worthington (aged 21¼) and Arthur H. Worthington (aged 17½). The entries, by all three Worthingtons, are written in the form of letters, and contain sketches of topographical features. Notebook “Our Holiday August 1877 – W. B. W., E. W. & A. H. W.”
. Pamphlet on proposed new railway station at Hunt’s Bank, Manchester, by Henry Boddington Jr., including plan and tables
