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Railway Signal Volume 53 (1935)

Railway Signal Volumes 55-56 (1937-1938)

Railway Signal: The Diamond Jubilee Number (1941)

Memorandum on post war reconstruction

Tenancy Agreement for the Burnbank Branch

Correspondence Regarding the Removal of the Mission Hall on Bertram Street, Hamilton

Newspaper clipping

Duplicate Order confirming reduction of Capital by the Pullman Car Company

Letter from D.W. Kock

Photograph taken from the back of a train just having crossed the Hohenzollernbrücke across the River Rhine, in Cologne

Article from 'Modern Transport' noting the retirement of Mr R.E.L. Maunsell from Southern Railway and giving career details

Gramophone Golden Jubilee magazine

Audio and Record Review

Report on the major development schemes: five years 1948 to 1952

Note on the Workington rail trade market research department. Referendum No. 1, Part VI booklet

Post war reconstruction programme

'The State and the Railways: an alternative to nationalisation' booklet

Report of the Committee on the Proposed Extensions of Electrification

First report of the Communications Group

First report of the Passenger Stations Group

Report on continuous brakes on freight trains

Working committee on rail connection to London Airport report

Report on the financial situation and prospects of British Transport

Freight Plan report

Appendices to the Freight Plan 1968

Supplementary report on the visit of BTC Officers to the USA

Report of the Committee on the training and education of staff employed in the Commission's undertaking

The evolution of the Great Eastern Railway: historical calendar 1836-1923

The Rail Transport Prospect booklet

Report to the Chairman and Members of the Traffic and Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Committees on Water Softening for locomotives

Report on British Railways organisation in North America

Report of the Light Weight Trains Committee

The Railway Executive report on the mechanical and electrical engineering on British Railways

Final report of the Cross-London Rail Freight Working Party

Second supplementary report of the Light Weight Trains Committee

Report on Freight Handling Depots

British Railways – future electrification booklet

Memorandum from E S Cox, Chief Mechanical Engineers Department, Euston to S J Symes, regarding locomotive taper boilers "new coned boilers", setting out originally proposed LMS taper boiler standardization scheme

Report on the inspection of signalling installations in the USA

Report on British Marine Services

Memorandum from [?A.R.], Chief Mechanical Engineer's Office, Euston to Mr R.A.Riddles, regarding redesign of standard 2-6-0 engine after clearance tests

Memorandum from E S Cox, Chief Mechanical Engineers Department, Euston to H.P.M.Beames, Euston, regarding light engines for Highland and Callander and Oban lines

Memoranda regarding proposed renumbering to bring all standard engine numbers above 10,000

Memorandum regarding French locomotives

Reprint of “The Locomotive Boiler” by C.A.Brandt, with discussions, reprinted from Transactions of the A.S.M.E.

Receipt on life policy

Summary of subsequent proposals made by regarding future LMS practice

(37) Issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts no. 5059, vol. CVII, containing obituary of Purvis

(4) Three articles referencing Purvis' poster work for B.I.F., mounted on backing card: Shy, T, 'Beyond the Headlines', in News Chronicle, 23/8/1937; 'B.I.F. 1937 Poster', in Birmingham Gazette, 16/10/1936; Daily Mirror, 31/7/1936

(2) Article discussing Purvis' use of photography to aid him in poster design: The Photographic Journal