Redditch | Science Museum Group Collection

Oral history interview with Mike Harvey, conducted and recorded by Philip Benham at the interviewee's home in Redditch on 26 June 2019. Duration: 1 hr. 27 min. 21 sec. Career synopsis; Compagnie Auxiliaire de Chemins de Fer Belge (CAIB); private wagons; Storage & Transport Services UK (STS UK); Traffic Services Ltd. (TSL); takeover of TSL and expansion; purchase of Procor UK 1988; responsibilities in CAIB; Marcroft Engineering customers and contract types; Tiphook and Tiger Rail acquisitions; CAIB philosophy towards legislative change; EC Directive 91/440; Private Wagon Federation (PWF): Chairman Wagon Builders’ & Repairers’ Association; Chairman Association of Private Rail Wagon Operators; private owner wagons operations; 1923 Grouping; Railway Clearing House; private wagon industry representation for privatisation; preparing Railfreight for privatisation; Robert Adley (Member of Parliament); Representations on Railways Bill 1992; privatisation process; Ed Burkhardt (Wisconsin Central); English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS); new industry relationships; vehicle repair and maintenance standards; Rickerscote accident; changes triggered by EWS; rail freight market emergence; Railtrack national distribution business Railtrack contract management

Mike Harvey interviewed by Philip Benham

2019-06-26

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Multi-Services Connector

Hymatic Multi Services Oxygen Connector

Sunbeam S7 Motorcycle

Operating lamp

Curved Suture Needles, 1901-1930

Anglepoise lamp, c. 1935.

Disposable Fistula return (venous) set (type R316) for use in dialysis

Disposable fistula outflow (arterial) set (type R312) for use in dialysis

Neil Kinnock During a Walkabout in Redditch

Mike Harvey interviewed by Philip Benham

Motor cycle saddle

Two nickel-iron accumulators by Nife Batteries