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Senate House Library, University of London

Locomotive drawing


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS1011

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Locomotive drawing

Date(s): c1850

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 drawing

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No further information available

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Technical pencil drawing of front of locomotive and certain machinery from within the engine by unknown author.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As found

Conditions governing access:

Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

No further information required

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Discovered in book, 'The principles and practice and explanation of the machinery of locomotive engines in operation on the several lines of railway : exemplified in the examples constructed by Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, Liverpool, T.R. Crampton, London ... : with descriptive text : to which are added Rules and regulations for the practical management of a locomotive engine' ([G.L.] I.838 fol.)

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2004-08-12 Stefan Dickers


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