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10 boxes, 6 volumes, 4 plan chests and 8 drawers

Records of North British Locomotive Company Ltd & Constituent Companies

Records of Muirhead & Co, Beckenham

Records of Muirhead & Co, Beckenham

1 document

Letter from John Backhouse to his sister describing the opening train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

1 box

BICC Documents and Publications

740

Map of the Grand Union Canal showing its communications with other canals and navigations

230

An account of an horizontal top or whirling speculum, invented by Mr Serson

400 negatives in 6 boxes

Collection of Branger photographic negatives of motor car and motorcycle racing in Europe

1 document

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Three figure motion

Works photographic negative of cable drum on timber stacks, Tamworth Colliery

Plan and elevation of a platform for giving circular motion to axes applied as an experiment to the Difference Engine No. 2. Drawing 163.

Works photographic negative of Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co. quarry, Penmaenmawr

Photograph of Elsie Hill (formerly Wright) and Glenn Hill

Works photographic negative of girder bridge, Bury to Radcliffe power line

2 items

Motor Fuel Ration Books

2 linear metres

Collection of engravings, photographs and prints relating to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

0.25 linear metres

Photographs Showing Construction of Manchester Oil Refinery at Trafford Park

7 boxes

Papers of J.H. Steward Ltd, opticians and scientific instrument makers

3 boxes

Archive of J. A Prestwich & Co. relating to engine and motorcycle production

60 drawings

Collection of drawings of wagons and coaches from coachbuilding journals

7 items

Trade literature from various Manchester companies

1 linear metre

Technical Manuals and Publications for the Ferranti Argus Series of Computers

Two filing cabinets, each with four drawers of materials

Archive of Pye TVT Ltd

200

Diary of Robert Stephenson

6 archive boxes

Alex Cox Archive

1 linear metre

Collection of business records for Jackson & Brothers Ltd of Wharf Foundry, Bolton.

2 boxes, 2 volumes

Kitson & Co. Ltd collection

1 volume

Technical script for 'Our World' television broadcast.

197 boxes, 3 drawers, 3 files, 10 items

Peckett & Sons Archive

6 linear metres

Papers of Winterbottom Book Cloth Co Ltd

0.53 metres (1 box)

Records relating to iron foundry and ironmongery business of the Meredith family in Kington, Herefordshire

2 items

Booklet and photograph showing forging production processes at Eva Brothers, Ltd.

1 archive box, 2 box files

Steam road vehicles drawings by Sentinel Waggon Works (1936) Limited

140

Printed brochure entitled: "Blackpool Flying Carnival, 1910. Life Sketches and Photos of Flying Men"

108 linear metres

Business Records from Linotype & Machinery Ltd of Broadheath, Altrincham

ROB/1 ROB/2 & ROB/3 are hard backed volumes, which are in a fair condition. Some volumes have been conserved and these are in a good condition. ROB/3 are drawings, which are in a fair condition.ROB/5 & ROB/6 are a series of files, which are also in a fair condition.

Archive of Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd

C. 6,000 individual components

William Henry Fox Talbot Collection

4 items

Material relating to James Kershaw & Co. Ltd

3 linear metres

Peter Dawson Collection

94 flat drawings and 2 volumes

Records of Nasmyth, Wilson & Co Ltd, Locomotive Builders, Patricroft

The condition of the collection is fair. Some of the items, particularly the photograph albums and newspaper cutting are damaged and are particularly fragile.

Records of Southern Railway Servants' Orphanage, Woking

14 items

Collection of documents and ICL PLAN source listings referring to subroutines written in the PLAN programming language used to create a tailored word processing program for users in the printing and publishing industry

Engraving of 'Lake Thirlmere or Wythburn Water, Cumberland'

'Sketch of the carriages on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway'

Postcard featuring portrait of Frances Way (formerly Griffiths) with children David and Christine

Photographs

Works photographic negative of cable laying, Durham Collieries Power

Works photographic negative of Westinghouse enclosed switchgear, Tamworth Colliery

Photograph entitled 'Sir Hiram Maxim Holding Folded Paper Sheet to Illustrate Stability of Wing Configuration'

The general plan of Mr. Babbage's Great Calculating Engine. Arrangement and rack, details, et cetera.