Catalogue description The Klapper collection of railway photographs

The Klapper Collection consists of film negatives showing locomotives of the 'Big Four', with miniature, light, industrial and narrow gauge railways also represented; also photographs from the British Railways era, including views of diesel and electric trains. Klapper's travels resulted in photographs of railways in Spain, France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand. There is also a body of archival material from the Omnibus Society.

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Klapper, C F, fl 1905-1980, Vice President of The Institute of Transport, President of the Omnibus Society, The Railway & Canal Historical Society and the London Underground Railway Society

• Railway transport

In 1935 Charles Klapper joined 'Modern Transport', eventually becoming its editor and then a director. 'Modern Transport' was taken over by Ian Allan Ltd in the 1960s and ceased publication in 1968. Klapper remained with the Ian Allan Company until the end of his working life. The Institute of Transport admitted Klapper as a Graduate in 1935, and a long association culminated in his appointment as its Vice President in 1962. He was also a founder member of the Omnibus Society, which he served as Secretary, Editor of the magazine, and, in 1950, as President. Other Presidential appointments were to the Railway & Canal Historical Society from 1964 to 1965 and the London Underground Railway Society. He died in 1980.