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Mark 3 Buffet Carriage

Mark 3 Buffet Carriage

1976
Three-valve radio receiver, 1922-1925

Three-valve radio receiver, 1922-1925

1922-1925
Model of disc engine.

Model of disc engine.

c.1830
Daily Herald Photograph: Moving Livestock by Train

Daily Herald Photograph: Moving Livestock by Train

1950
'Handy Hook', preventing contact with surfaces

'Handy Hook', preventing contact with surfaces

2020
research laboratory; vehicle tests; dynamic instability; Advanced Passenger Train; reorganisation, business-led; education, PhD, non-linear vibration theory; recruitment to BR; Engineering Research Division Laboratory; dynamics; vehicle stability; experimental test track; Field Trials Department; track recording trolley; relationship of speed to derailment; Tony Hobbs; Alan Rimmer; development of theories on vehicle stability, dynamic instability; high speed freight vehicle (HSFV); staff relations; Stan Smith; measuring track irregularities; callouts, derailments, conditions (hours); causes of incidents; development of Advanced Passenger Train (APT); David Boocock; reaction of trade unions to APT; freight liners; pantograph; civil engineering research, mechanised track work; safety; liaison with business; sponsorship of research work; restructuring of research division, George Buckley, Malcolm Savage; strategic research programme, BRB; Automatic Train Protection (ATP); retirement; history of BR Research Department; research staffing levels; d.o.b. 1934-07-08; railway work 1964-1993. Derby; Etwall; Network Southeast.

Gilchrist, Alastair Ogilvie

2000-08-22
[Drawing] Tricycle / William Howe. 1869 Apr 20. [Line drawing with wash, scale 3" : 1'. Bears note on verso 'Tricycle designed & made by Grandfather Howe & used by him'. William Howe took out a patent, 725 of 1864, for motive power engines. He was the originator of the 'Stephenson' link motion, and engineer to the Clay Cross Colliery Company]. In Archive collection at MSL/0424.

Tricycle

1869
Cotton carding engine, main cylinder cover, hand card for cleaning card flats, waste collection box, card flat, cotton feed box, made by Strutts of Belper, Derbyshire, England, 1800-1830

Carding Engine, Derbyshire, 1800-30

1800-1830
[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold. 1843Nov-1847 Feb. [Ms. bound, 42p. Records, entered monthly, detail amounts weighed and assayed, the price per ton and the amounts sold and to whom]

Record of lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines

1843-1847
04/07/2003 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Tissington railway trail, Derbyshire

Master MiniDv 'The Tissington railway trail'

2003-07-04
[Ms. report and account book] Longstone Edge Mines in Derbyshire / John Taylor. 1841 Mar-1846 Aug. [48p. used. Comprises analysis, dated 1841 Mar 30, of the state of the lead mining industry in Derbyshire, the problems it faces and possible solutions; and five reports made to the proprietors of Longstone Edge Mines with accompanying 'Statements of Longstone Edge Mines Reckonings' for the periods up to Apr 1842, Dec 1843 and Aug of 1844, 1845 and 1846]

Ms. report and account book Longstone Edge Mines in Derbyshire

1841-1846
One photograph titled ‘A scene in the Hollingworth Mill’ showing two women working with a spinning machine.

Daily Herald Photograph: Spinning machine

1930-1950
Series of samples of lead ores called "linnets," from the Alport Smelting Works, Derbyshire

Series of samples of lead ores called "linnets"

before 1889
Display case and hinged wooden label for Arkwright’s water frame, manufacturer unknown, about 1900-1960.

Display case and hinged wooden label for Arkwright�s water frame

1900-1960
Red Star publicity leaflet "Delivery to the door in London - in hours", describing Red Star's Red Star Plus parcels services to London from Alfreton & Mansfield, Burton-on-Trent, Derby, Leicester, Long Eaton, Loughborough, Market Harborough and Nottingham, March 1985. Leaflet No. RSP1.

Delivery to the door in London - in hours

1985
Typed letter from Derbyshire resident to Professor Sarah Gilbert, thanking Sarah and her team for their work on the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, dated 1 December 2021

Thank you letter to Sarah Gilbert

2021-12-01
Pamphlet (in the form of a photocopy) outlining the proposals of the Manchester & High Peak Railway Co. to operate rail services between Manchester and Buxton. The pamphlet also constitutes the first issue of of the Manchester & High Peak Rail Association's quarterly journal and was issued in January 1996. The scheme never progressed.

Manchester & High Peak Railway Co.

1996-01
Filmed in 1960 in Derbyshire. Footage of four Midland Railway engines coupled together (including No. 1000, No. 158A, No. 118) pulled by No. 1000 touring on the former Midland Railway Wirksworth branch line, signalman holding token from signal box, token taken by driver, passing Duffield station, man signing autograph for children at station, engines departing, Shottle station, engines continuing journey, large crowd gathered at Wirkworth station to watch engines arriving, many children in crowd. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the original master film reel, colour, silent. Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

16mm film, original master 'Kirtley Johnson & Co.'

1960
Filmed in 1960 on the Cromford and High Peak Railway in Derbyshire. The film follows the journey of freight on the Cromford and High Peak Railway, including detail shots of shunting and hauling operations at the inclines. Footage of goods train pulled by steam locomotive, signalman at High Peak Junction signal box, railwaymen, various shots of freight and passenger trains filmed from lineside, locomotive 68034 being coupled to goods train, railwayman attaching wagon to cable at first incline, hauling of freight wagons by steel cable on the incline, filmed from lineside and from wagon going up the incline., close-up shots of the cable system, locomotive 47007 at tope of incline being couple with freight wagons and continuing journey, close-up shot of safety notice board for railway staff working on the incline, second incline, wagon attached to cable by railwayman, wagons hauled up and down the incline, refill of locomotive's water tank, locomotive coupled to freight wagons, continuing journey, steam locomotive hauling wagons up incline (single line), signs showing degrees of incline, railwayman operating single line lever. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the original master film reel, colour, silent. Duration: 8 minutes

16mm film, original master 'Cromford & High Peak Railway'

1960
Typed report "Line Maintenance Engineer's Meeting with Divisional Maintenance Engineers 22nd/23rd July 1964 - Visit to Cromford & High Peak Railway" describing the geology and the working trains on the Cromford & High Peak line, shortly before its closure. The contents of this report are very similar (in places identical) to the report made in June .

Line Maintenance Engineer's Meeting with Divisional Maintenance Engineers 22nd/23rd July 1964 - Visit to Cromford & High Peak Railway

1964
Typed report "Line Maintenance Engineer's Meeting with Divisional Maintenance Engineers 24th/25th June 1964 - Visit to Cromford & High Peak Railway" describing the geology and the working trains on the Cromford & High Peak line, shortly before its closure.

Line Maintenance Engineer's Meeting with Divisional Maintenance Engineers 24th/25th June 1964 - Visit to Cromford & High Peak Railway

1964
Map, "Airey's Railway Map of The Derby & Notts. Districts", 1881, by J. Airey, published by the Railway Clearing House, 2" to 1 mile, paper backed linen, coloured.

Airey's Railway Map of The Derby & Notts. Districts

1881