Catalogue description The Tuplin collection of photographs of the 'Big Four' companies

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Details of The Tuplin Collection
Reference: The Tuplin Collection
Title: The Tuplin collection of photographs of the 'Big Four' companies
Description:

This collection, acquired as part of the Millbrook House collection in 1994, is composed of medium format film negatives and features static locomotives and trains of the 'Big Four' companies and their forerunners.

 

A manuscript list is available detailing engines by company, type and wheel arrangement, name and number, location and date.
Date: 1929-1947
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Tuplin, W A, fl 1929-1947, author and Professor of Applied Mechanics at Sheffield University
Physical description: 109 negatives
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

W A Tuplin was the author of a forthright series of books on British locomotive design and performance

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