Catalogue description Basil K Cooper collection of film negatives featuring locomotives of the 'Big Four'

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Details of The Cooper Collection
Reference: The Cooper Collection
Title: Basil K Cooper collection of film negatives featuring locomotives of the 'Big Four'
Description:

Includes those built for the Midland, LNWR, London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, Caledonian, Highland, Great Northern, Great Eastern, North British, and the LB& SCR. There is also a small number featuring industrial locomotives, ferries and engines in Belgium, France and Spain.

 

A handwritten list gives details of constituent companies, class and wheel arrangement, engine number and name, location and date. There are also reference prints available to view on request.
Date: 1937-1958
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Cooper, Basil K, fl 1937-1958, author and technical journalist
Physical description: 250 negatives
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

The work of a prolific author and technical journalist with a special interest in electric railways, Cooper's collection was acquired in 1994 as part of the Millbrook House collection. (See separate NRM entry)

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