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Ernest Marples opens the M1 motorway

02 November 1959

Daily Herald Contact Sheet; Farming, Joint Production Committee Meeting

1951-03

Daily Herald Contact Sheet; Farming, Attendees at Committee Meeting

1951-03

Daily Herald Contact Sheet; Farming, attendees at committee meeting

1951-03
One photograph titled 'Severn Bridge Wind-Tunnel Tests' showing a 52 ft model suspension bridge being prepared for tests in the wind tunnel at Thurleigh, Bedfordshire. Caption on the back describes how the wind tunnel was inspected by Mr. Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport.

Daily Herald Photograph: Wind-tunnel tests

1948-10-21
PERSONA starter pack, a natural family planning method, made by Unipath Ltd, in 2000. Comprising a hand-held monitor with two packets of test sticks, it is used to identify the fertile period of the cycle from measurements of urinary oestrone 3-glucaronide and luteinising hormone.

Persona monitor with testing sticks, English, 2000.

2000
Oral history interview with Andrew Nock, conducted and recorded by Michael Lee at the interviewee's home in Bedfordshire on 24 April 2018. Duration: 1 hr. 13 min. 28 sec. Career overview; awareness of scope for freight privatisation 1980s; cash generation; Privatisation Studies group; action immediate after election 1992; freight privatisation team; working with Department for Transport (DfT); Trainload Freight (TLF) split geographically; contracts for engineering trains; freight management buy-out teams; Wisconsin Central; Ed Burkhardt; views in retrospect

Andrew Nock interviewed by Michael Lee

2018-04-24
Oral history interview with Janet Goodland, conducted and recorded by Michael Lee at the interviewee's home in Bedfordshire on 21 October 2018. Duration: 1 hr. 9 min. 59 sec. Personal background; 1992 election; Network SouthEast (NSE); joining Railtrack as Head of Strategy and Planning; preparations for split from British Rail (BR); splitting BR/Railtrack finances; handling mega schemes; Crossrail; Channel Tunnel cross-London services; Heathrow Express; Don Heath (BR Director Projects); Geoff Maynard (NSE); working relationships; West Coast Main Line (WCML) project; Thameslink; King's Cross interchange; Railtrack; Office of the Rail Regulator (ORR) access charges review; developing balance sheet; Railtrack licence; verification; contract with Office of Passenger Rail Franchising (OPRAF) for Thameslink; managing Railtrack; John Edmonds; Gerald Corbett; reflections; going into administration

Janet Goodland interviewed by Michael Lee

2018-10-21