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941 boxes, 458 drawing folders, 37 drawers

GEC Traction Archive

1 file containing 8 items

Photographs, Manuals and Brochures for GEC Electric Locomotives

559 boxes (824 rolls), 458 folders

Drawings

A large number of brochures produced by AEI Ltd, AEI Traction, GEC Ltd, GEC Traction Ltd, GEC Diesels Ltd, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd, English Electric Co., English Electric-AEI Traction Ltd., Ruston Paxman and MetroTec relating to railway locomotives, mainly diesel-electric locomotives; articles from the Railway Gazette, and Engineering. Included in the series of printed material is a report from the Traction projects department which investigated Trolleybus Data and includes data and reports on various makes of electric vehicle looked at in June, 1945. Customers covered by the brochures include British Railways, New Zealand Government Railways, Bolivian Government Railways, Western Railway (India), Central Railway of Brazil, New South Wales Government Railways, Pakistan Western Railway, Malayan Railways, and Ghana Railway and Ports.

Trade literature for GEC Traction Ltd and Predecessor Companies

1 roll

Mark 3 coach BT10 bogie

1 roll

Mechanical parts drawings for South African locomotives

572 boxes, 458 folders, 52 files, 15 volumes and 1 roll

Drawing Office records

1 box

British Rail EMU Class 3XX photographs

1 box

GEC Traction Limited manuals

22 boxes

Publications

1 box

Johannesburg trolley bus project files

1 box

British Rail Diesel Locomotive photographs

182 boxes, 9 folders, 16 volumes, 12 files

Engineering records

1 roll

Bogie co-co drawings for South Africa 7E class

84 boxes

Manuals

1 roll

Axle box guide casting drawings

40 boxes, 33 drawers

Microfiche

1 roll

Layout of GEC Traction offices, and electrical equipment details

1 box

Industrial locomotive photographs

1 roll

British Steel Corporation diesel electric steel work shunter outlines and general arrangements

94 rolls, 2 folders

GEC Traction Limited drawings

1 roll

British Steel Corporation diesel electric steel work shunter outlines

1 box, 5 volumes, 4 files

Order books

1 box

Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand photographs

1 box

Deltics and BR locomotive photographs

9 mins 15 seconds video on 1 VHS cassette

Footage of wheelslip tests with Intercity 125

8 boxes, 1 volume

Reports

1 roll

Instrument and parcels drawings for industrial locomotives

1 roll

Bogie drawings for Brazil Steel Railway

1 box

First Aid Provisions at Trafford Park, Managing the Tendering Process, Department Quality Management Review, Revisions to Codes of Practices and Commercial Department Ordering Procedure files

1 box

South African Railways and Harbours 10E1 and E3 electric locomotives project files

1 box

GEC Traction Limited negatives

1 roll

Wheel, axle and tyre assembly and motor bogie arrangements

1 box

British Rail EMU photographs

1 box

Industrial locomotive photographs

1 box

GEC Traction Limited, Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway System, Chloride Technical Limited, Liverpool Polytechnic and the Institution of Electrical Engineers technical reports

1 box

3 Phase locomotive packaging, Channel Tunnel VHST Inverter, Locomotive Drive Development, 3 Phase Drives for EMU and Harmonic Measurements Combined Test EMU technical files

1 box

Preston Works photographs

1 roll

South African Railways mechanical parts

1 file

GEC Traction Limited Company Health and Safety Policy file

1 box

India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan and China photographs

1 box

Australia photographs

1 roll

South African Railways electric loco layouts

36 boxes

Photographs

6 folders

Ordering schedules

1 box

GEC Traction Limited and GEC Transportation Projects Ltd technical reports

1 box

Overseas railways photographs

1 roll

Pakistan Eastern Railway diesel electric locomotive

1 box

English Electric Company Limited diesel electric schedule of apparatus files

1 box

Manuals for various companies