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Collection of 820 civil and mechanical engineering drawings

circa 1804-circa 1852

Robert Stephenson & Co. drawings

1825-1869

Collection of engineering drawings from the Great Western Railway (GWR) Engineer's Office of railway buildings and railway machinery

1837-1867

Bow Works Collection - 803 drawings of locomotives and components from the North London Railway's Bow Works

1873-1925; 1936

Collection of 245 engineering drawings

circa 1830-1918

engineering drawings

1850-1970

Engineering drawings of broad and narrow gauge railroad trucks by Hennet & Spink

circa 1850-circa 1859
Bound set of copy component drawings for BR Class 7 4-6-2 Standard steam locomotive

Bound set of copy component drawings for BR Class 7 4-6-2 Standard steam locomotive

1950-1959
Drawings of locomotive built by Dubs & Co, Glasgow Locomotive Works, 15 August 1887, 2 line drawings, one partly with wash, scale 1 1/2":1'. One drawing bears stamped no. 56971 and ms. 'No.4855'; one bears stamped no.56975 and in manuscript 'No.4856'.

Drawings of locomotives built by Dubs & Co

1887
Engineering drawings regarding the Manchester, Bury and Rossendale Railway associated with C.E.Cawley, dated 1844-1846, 23 items in 3 folders, being drawings of bridges, cattle arches, masonry etc. Most bear signature of C.E. Cawley, some bear drawing number. All relate to Contract No.2 (II).

Drawings regarding the Manchester, Bury and Rossendale Railway

1844-1846
Engineering drawings regarding the London and Birmingham Railway, dated 1835-1837, 14 items in 3 folders, being ink and wash drawings of bridges and culverts. Most drawings bear a number and also a specific contract number. One drawing bears name of James Hennell, two bear signatures of George H. Phipps and [J. Muir?] Chapman.

Drawings regarding London and Birmingham Railway bridges and culverts

1835-1837
Engineering Drawings of the Earlestown Carriage & Wagon Works - 162 drawings from the Earlestown Works of the London & North Western Railway, mostly wagon drawings but including lurries, components and some site plans that were used by British Railways arising from excavations done at Earlestown. Drawings on linen-backed cartridge paper, wax linen and paper copies.

Engineering Drawings of the Earlestown Carriage & Wagon Works

1869-1953
Approximately 500 Peckett & Sons engineering drawings; one Fox Walker drawing; one roll of Nasmyth Wilson drawings (c.95); one roll of Dubs & Co drawings (c.40) rescued by Mr Roger Loud

Peckett & Sons, Nasmyth Wilson & Co. and Dubs & Co. engineering drawings

circa 1900-1940
[Drawings (2)] General Arrangement of Launch with Oil Engine and Reversing Screw Propeller; Reversing Propeller G.O. 5579 / Priestman Bros. Ltd., Hull and London. 1892 [and] 1893. [See below]

Drawings (2) General Arrangement of Launch with Oil Engine and Reversing Screw Propeller

1892-1893
[Engineering drawings (9): 500 nhp side-lever steam engines completed by Robert Napier & Co. for pioneer transatlantic steamer 'British Queen'. 1839. 9 sheets in cardboard folder (435 x 560mm); five drawings are dated 1839, four drawings bear initials 'EJB'. They are numbered 1-7, 9-10. All drawings have been sealed in Melinex. With three drawings, also sealed in Melinex, of steamships of the same date, one a 'dredging vessel' built by Miller & Ravenhill and fitted by Hunter & English. All 12 sheets are housed in hardbacked folder]

Engineering drawings: 500 nhp side-lever steam engines for transatlantic steamer 'British Queen'

1839
[Photo-reproduced line drawings (3)] Pitman's Pelton Wheel / Percy Pitman. [ca.1915. : /1 Pitman's Improved 18" experimental Pelton water wheel for Technical Colleges (scale c.3":1'); /2 Pitman's Pelton Wheel & Direct-Coupled Dynamo; /3 Drawing No.501: Pelton Wheel (scale 1:4). Made by Percy Pitman, 'Manufacturer of Experimental Apparatus for Technical Laboratories', Victoria St, Westminster]

Photo-reproduced line drawings (3) Pitman's Pelton Wheel

circa 1915
Conway [engine] development illustrations / Rolls-Royce Ltd. 1951-1958. [File of 50 engineering drawings, being technical detail drawings (xerox, mostly coloured) of parts of aero engines under trial. Many bear 'Development Illustration Section' or 'Project & Development Illustration Department']

Conway engine development illustrations

1951-1958
[Collection of engineering drawings, 1912-1920, chiefly of engines and chassis / Auto Carriers (1911) Ltd., Ferry Works, Thames Ditton. 39 sheets in folder. 11 drawings are undated, one is dated 1905. Listing available]

Collection of engineering drawings

1912-1920
Great Western Railway engineering drawings (5) showing a proposed bridge over Grand Junction canal basin at Paddington, ink & wash on paper, scale 1" : 5', no date. As well as drawings (4) for the London Terminus canal bridge and approaches, ink & wash on paper (one on linen-backed paper), scale 1" : 5' et al., no date and Elevations, sections and plans. nos.10 to 13 of a set of 65 drawings, no date.

Great Western Railway drawings of London canal bridges

Charles Roberts & Co. Wagon engineering drawing 319/H

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Rolled engineering drawings for Cartic 4 wagon

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Drawings for 45 ton Class B tank wagon

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Drawings for 45 ton caustic liquor tank wagon

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Drawings for 45 ton Class A tank wagon

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Drawings for 40 tonne ferry tank wagon

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Wagon engineering drawings 3784/M, 3785/M and 5169

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Miscellaneous SPL wagon drawings

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Miscellaneous wagon drawings in number range M3127 to M3974

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
[Collection of engineering drawings of mechanical equipment installed at St. Katharine Dock and London Docks. 1808-1885, 1926. Comprises drawings (41) of equipment, chiefly mechanical (swivel bridges, capstans, cranes etc.) installed in St. Katharine Dock, in Victoria Dock and in London Docks. The St. Katharine Dock Company and the London Docks Company amalgamated in 1864; the Victoria Dock Company was incorporated in 1865. Listing available]

Collection of engineering drawings of mechanical equipment installed at St. Katharine Dock and London Docks

1808-1885, 1926
5 drawings of switches and crossings for Scinde Railway/Scinde Railway Company, dated 1864. Partly-coloured lithographs, scales (chiefly) 1 1/2":1'; 3":1'. Published by Kell Bros., lithographers, Castle St., Holborn, drawings seem to be plates removed from a double-folio book.

Scinde Railway Company switches and crossings drawings

1864
Engineering drawings for the London & Birmingham Railway Contract 4B. Bridge over Grand Junction Canal near Nash Mill with cast iron work details, London & Birmingham Railway Co, no date. Ink and wash on linen-backed paper. Drawings nos. 5-7. Each bears stamp of Engineer's Office, Euston Station.

London & Birmingham Railway drawings of bridge over the Grand Junction Canal

circa 1837
Charles Roberts & Co. Gloucester RCWW engineering drawing E2309 (brown copy)

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Wagon engineering drawing 430/H

Charles Roberts & Co. Wagon engineering drawing 430/H

circa 1856-1975
[Collection of 1074 engineering drawings (ca.1830s-1920) of waterworks and sewage disposal plants built by Thomas Hawksley, T. Hawksley & Co. and T. & C. Hawksley & Co., chiefly in various towns and cities, chiefly in Britain. 26 folders, listing available. See also inv. no. 1977-134]

Collection of 1074 engineering drawings (ca.1830s-1920) of waterworks and sewage disposal plants built by Thomas Hawksley

circa 1830-1920
2 untitled copy line drawings, partly with wash, of Baldwin locomotives, Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co. 12 October 1876, scale 2":1'. Both bear stamp 'Baldwin Locomotive Works. B.P.W. & Co.' The first is side elevation and the second is three front elevations.

Untitled copy line drawings of Baldwin locomotives

1876
Two engineering drawings of locomotive "Puffing Billy"; side elevation and plan views, end elevations and section through boiler.

Two engineering drawings of locomotive "Puffing Billy"; side elevation and plan views

1892
[Engineering drawings: Rope-making and associated machinery; sewing machine] / Bowden Brothers, Engineers, Newcastle on Tyne. 1861-1874. Showing Thomas' patent sewing machine (this is probably patent no.1631 of W. F. Thomas of 1860 Jul 5), balling machine, hemp machine, hemp rope making machines (as used by Dyne & Evens, pulley block makers, London E14). 10 sheets, ink and wash, scales various]

Engineering drawings: rope-making and associated machinery

1861-1874
[Series of chromolithographed, card-mounted, mechanical engineering drawings, numbered plates 4 to 12. Engraved by Ls. Allard for Lithographie de Boucher, Maison Basset, Paris, ca. 1860. Most of the drawings bear legends and explanations; each has a varnish wash. They include Bramah's hydraulic press, Thonnelier's coin press, Stanhope's typographic press, Fairbairn's locomotives]

Series of chromolithographed mechanical engineering drawings

1860
[Series of chromolithographed card-mounted, mechanical engineering drawings, numbered 1 to 30. Engraved by E. Wormser, published by 'Librairie de l'Hachette et Cie, Paris, par ordre de Mr le Ministre l'Instruction Publique, ca.1860]

Series of chromolithographed mechanical engineering drawings

circa 1860
[Engineering drawings (2)] Mounting for 12 inch 46 ton B.L. Guns [for] HMSs 'Albion' & 'Glory' / Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne. 1920 Oct 28. [Plan, being half plan on top and half plan with shield removed; sectional elevation. Printed, scale 1 : 24]

Engineering drawings (2) Mounting for 12 inch 46 ton B.L. Guns [for] HMSs 'Albion' & 'Glory'

1920
[Engineering drawings (2) of the piers of Tower Bridge. ca.1889. Line drawing/ink and wash, both on tracing paper. /2 bears ms. note 'From Mr Cruttwell, rec'd 2.5.89 GDS'. Cruttwell was the Bridge's resident engineer and G.D. Stevenson was architectural assistant and in charge of the drawings of the masonry and similar work of the superstructure]

Engineering drawings (2) of the piers of Tower Bridge

circa 1889
[Detail engineering drawings (27) of ropeway systems, ca.1888-1944 / Ropeways Ltd. All are line drawings on oiled linen. Nos. 3 to 27 bear company name 'Ropeways Ltd., London'. 1 folder. Listing available]

Detail engineering drawings of ropeway systems

1888-1944
Engineering drawings showing bridge for the crossing of the Grand Junction Canal at Blisworth, Northamptonshire, for the London & Birmingham Railway Co. c.1837, 7 sheets in folder, line drawings with wash, various scales. Drawings are numbered 5, V, 6, VII, VIII, 4 and III. Six bear stamp 'Engineer's Office, Euston Station'. Drawings listed individually on this database.

London & Birmingham Railway Co. drawings of bridge at Blisworth

circa 1837
Charles Roberts & Co. Miscellaneous SW/DE wagon drawings

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Miscellaneous wagon drawings in number range NA350 onwards

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Miscellaneous wagon drawings in number range M4030 to 4459

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Rolled engineering drawing sketches for various wagons

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Miscellaneous wagon drawings in number range M3011 to M3074

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Miscellaneous RCH wagon drawings

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975
Charles Roberts & Co. Miscellaneous wagon drawings in number range G1100 to G1251

engineering drawings

circa 1856-1975