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Cascelloid plastic 'Sqezy' washing-up liquid bottle, 1958.

Cascelloid plastic 'Sqezy' washing-up liquid bottle, 1958.

1958
Horse Drawn Hearse

Horse Drawn Hearse

1894
Automatic Circular Knitting Machine, 1923.

Automatic Circular Knitting Machine, 1923.

1923
First genetic fingerprint, 1984.

First genetic fingerprint, 1984.

1984
"Jif" lemon blowmoulded in polythene December

"Jif" lemon blowmoulded in polythene December

Atkinson's talcum powder

Atkinson's talcum powder

circa 1951
"Chocolate Whirl" proprietary blow moulded polythene bottle

"Chocolate Whirl" proprietary blow moulded polythene bottle

Photograph of Twycross Zoo's baby gorilla, 'Bonga'

Photograph of Twycross Zoo's baby gorilla, 'Bonga'

1966-06-21
British Railways Morrison Electricar GTS Mk 1 four-wheel articulated electric tractor unit, registration JOB 791. Built by Austin Crompton Parkinson Electric Vehicles Ltd, South Wigston, 1948. This vehicle's British Railways running number was 2E5002, chassis serial 9748, original fleet number 3030M. Used as a delivery vehicle in Hull and Croydon, from 1950 to 1964.

Tractor Unit, SR, Electricars of Birmingham

1948
Oral history interview with David Blake conducted and recorded by Brian Clementson at the interviewee's home in Leicestershire on 9 April 2018. Duration: 45 min. 1 sec. Career overview; Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineer British Rail: Southern Region; seconded to find £80 million cost savings; looking at possible privatisation of British Rail Engineering Ltd. (BREL); Doncaster Wagon Works sale; Director of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering (DM&EE) British Railways Board (BRB); safety; appointed to lead Vendor Unit; role of Vendor Unit; management buyout (MBO) teams; government timescale for privatisation; Franchising Director; restructuring industry outside of passenger businesses to sell; Rail Regulator; EU Directive 91/440 seperation of track from trains; underlying structure for privatisation constructed; discussions over which companies to sell first; British Rail Maintenance Ltd. (BRML); Meldon Quarry; European response to EC Directive 91/440; freight split into separate businesses but impossible to find bidders; impact of privatisation on personal life; negotiation participants and responsibilities; closure of Vendor Unit; retirement; successful sale process; tight timescale; benefits of privatisation

David Blake interviewed by Brian Clementson

2018-04-09
Three cartons of "Surfasutes" emergency surface sutures by A. de St. Dalmas and Co., Ltd., English

Three cartons of "Surfasutes" emergency surface sutures by A. de St. Dalmas and Co.

Timetable notice. 1842. Midland Counties Railway.

Timetable, Midland Counties Railway

1842
A black and white pigment print photograph, entitled 'Bottle Kicking, Hallaton, Leicestershire' by Tony Ray-Jones, taken c. 1967. This was selected from the original contact sheet by Martin Parr, and printed from the original negative in 2013.

Bottle Kicking, Hallaton, Leicestershire

(circa 1967); 2013
One photograph [description needed], titled 'Washington Bells Are Made in England'. Caption on back reads: 'Mr. Harold Marcon, supervisor of the tuning department at the John Taylor and Company Bell Foundry at Loughborough, Leicestershire, marks the E natural bell of the 53-bell carillon for Washington Cathedral at present being cast in Loughborough. The 3'10" bell weights 17 1/2 CWT. The 200,000-dollars contract for the carillon is the biggest order the firm has taken since 1936 when 53 bells were cast for the university of Michigan. The National Episcopal Cathedral in Washington, D.C., was begun in 1907. When the bells are hung in it it will be complete'.

Daily Herald Photograph: Bells

1961-07-06
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