1 item Photograph taken from the back of a train just having crossed the Hohenzollernbrücke across the River Rhine, in Cologne
1 item Article from 'Modern Transport' noting the retirement of Mr R.E.L. Maunsell from Southern Railway and giving career details
1 item Note on the Workington rail trade market research department. Referendum No. 1, Part VI booklet
1 bundle Report of the Committee on the training and education of staff employed in the Commission's undertaking
1 item Report to the Chairman and Members of the Traffic and Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Committees on Water Softening for locomotives
1 item 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
1 item 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
1 item 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
1 item Reprint of “The Locomotive Boiler” by C.A.Brandt, with discussions, reprinted from Transactions of the A.S.M.E.
1 volume (37) Issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts no. 5059, vol. CVII, containing obituary of Purvis
3 items (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
1 item (2) Article discussing Purvis' use of photography to aid him in poster design: The Photographic Journal