Catalogue description Charles Roberts & Co collection of posed 'catalogue' views of wagons, tanks and steel hoppers

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Details of Charles Roberts & Co Collection
Reference: Charles Roberts & Co Collection
Title: Charles Roberts & Co collection of posed 'catalogue' views of wagons, tanks and steel hoppers
Description:

The negatives feature posed 'catalogue' views of wagons, tanks and steel hoppers produced for a wide range of industrial clients, such as the Ministry of Supply, Brunner Mond, the Ipswich Beet Sugar Factory Ltd and the Anglo Persian Oil Co. There is a card index available for consultation on request in the Museum's Reading Room. The Historical & Model Railway Society have also produced a printed list of the negatives giving details of the vehicle type, including lettering and numbering, the company it was supplied to and the date.
Date: c1907-1970
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Charles Roberts & Co, road and rail vehicle construction company, of Horbury near Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire
Physical description: approx 5,200 negatives; Approx 760 prints
Administrative / biographical background:

Charles Roberts & Co, a privately owned company based at Horbury near Wakefield, constructed road and rail vehicles. The NRM acquired this collection of 8½ x 6½ ins glass negatives in 1975 after the company was sold to Procor UK. The museum also holds an archive of papers relating to the Charles Roberts organisation, including some order books containing photographs of wagons produced between 1907 and 1913, complete with details of their construction.

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