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Collection of newspaper cuttings on jet propulsion and gas turbines developed by Power Jets Ltd.

230

Commemorative photograph album of the Steam Engineering Exhibition held in Tokyo to celebrate the bi-centenary of James Watt's birth

2 items

Two volumes by the British Admiralty relating to boat and warship construction

3 boxes, 10 volumes and 1 envelope

Miscellaneous collection of computing papers

0.001 linear metres

Photographic Prints of Beyer, Peacock and Company Limited locomotives

several hundred drawings (4 rolls and 1 slipcase)

Underwater Weapons Material Department, Admiralty

The sheets are headed 'Brancepeth Colliery Coal Cost Sheets for Month of ...' and 'Comparative Cost of Coals Raised at Brancepeth Colliery'.

Cost sheets of Brancepeth Colliery

240

Rolls Royce Report No. A/24 on a 150 hours military type test conducted on Avon Mk 1 Engine No. 70

210

Thesis entitled 'The life and work of W H Wollaston'

505

Colour poster advertising BSA bicycles and depicting scenes from film 'A Boy - A Girl & A Bike'

9 sheets

3-dimensional, perspective geometry drawings of pre-production Concorde

9 sheets

Construction drawings of Ledge Waggon

1 slipcase

Papers relating to John McCreesh's working model of a butcher's cold storage room and its showing at the Model Engineer exhibition, 1948

Two issues of Rolls-Royce Bulletins

Two issues of Rolls-Royce Bulletins

230

A publication on 'The History of Welding'

175

National Geographic Society bookmark commemorating the flight of the balloon 'Explorer II'

440

Poster for Riley 1 1/2-litre & 15 h.p. 6-cyl. models lubrication

3 volumes (1957) relate to the design and operating of the Partington plant for Petrochemicals Ltd.; 1 volume (1966) is an analytical manual for an ethylene oxide-ethylene glycol plant for NOCIL near Bombay.

Technical reports relating to the design and operating of ethylene oxide plants in Partington, Cheshire, and in India

4 items

Air diagrams

23 albums

Collection of photographic albums recording the objects and pictures in the Avery Historical Museum relating to the history of weighing

2 items

Correspondence from O. G. Lywood Relating to his Experience of Airborne Wireless

100

Works orders for carbon-14 compounds

210

Laboratory report entitled: "The application of the C.A.V. distributor pump type D.P.A. to direct injection engines"

205

Report on the Bulk Storage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas

4 folders

Correspondence files relating to the work of Keith Copeland on radar during the Second World War at the Radio Department, RAE, Farnborough.

205

Physics exercise book belonging to Douglas Keens, recording practical work in final year at Shrewsbury School and in Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

315

Book entitled: "British Air Forces; The Royal Air Force; The Fleet Air Arm; also aeroplanes of the U.S.A., Germany and Italy completely illustrated and described"

250

Publication entitled 'The Modern Aeroplane'

8 items

Papers relating to the Whittle jet engine production.

2 items

ICI Reports on use of Argus 200 computer for controlling ammonia soda process at Fleetwood

4 items

Correspondence relating to CTR Wilson's Cloud Chamber

5 sheets

Venereal disease information leaflets from the Ministry of Health

200

Letter from Sir William Lawrence Bragg to Gordon Leonard Rogers

520

Diagram: Features of Screw Propeller Design

105

Collection of photographs of machine tools

355

Plates accompanying design study for a photographic reconnaissance aircraft

205

A brief history of Karrier Motors Ltd. outlining its progress and activities in the commercial motor vehicle industry

105

Tickets for airship Graf Zeppelin's flight from Germany to South America

3 drawings

Stanhope gig with Dennett springs

2 volumes

Laboratory notebooks complied during construction of nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer

180

Notebook, letters and certificates acquired during training to obtain the Post Master General's special certificate to become a wireless operator in the wartime Merchant Navy

1 volume

Technical script for 'Our World' television broadcast.

An Evening Post Publication.

Newspaper publication entitled "Leeds Steam : the authentic story ... of the great Leeds-built traction engines"

1360

General arrangement engineering drawing of cable ship T.S.C.S. 'Stanley Angwin'

205

Volume entitled 'A short account of the history of J. J. Seekings & Co. and W. Sisson & Co. Ltd, Gloucester'

2 sheets

Drawings of Horse Slaughterer's Cart

250

Photograph album of the work and products of the James Cycle Co. Ltd.

740

Wall chart entitled: "Guide to How Britain runs its Science"

Comprises photocopied manuscript and typescript letters, edited for the Rutherford Memorial Committee of the Royal Society.

Correspondence of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, edited by Dr. Ernest Marsden

50 items

Collection of early publications relating to penicillin