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Major accessions to repositories in 2005 relating to Transport

Local

Aberdeen City Archives

  • Stonehaven Harbour Trust: minute books (BH17)

Ayrshire Archives

  • Walker & Sons, garage proprietors, Kilwinning: day books and cash books (Accession 1018)

Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service

  • Dunstable Bypass Planning Conference: papers (Z1035)

Birmingham City Archives

  • West Midlands Rail Passengers Council and Transport Users Consultative Committee: additional records (CCM/A/Acc2005/146)

Bristol Record Office

  • Lionel Harris, draughtsman engineer, Bristol: photographs and papers rel to Bristol Aeroplane Company (42794)
  • Bristol Omnibus Co Ltd, formerly Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co Ltd: additional records and records of successor companies (39735)
  • Bristol Bargeowners Committee: minute book (42954)
  • Rail Passengers Committee for Western England: corresp, surveys and papers rel to Bristol railways incl papers of successor bodies (41257)

Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon

  • Rail Passengers Committee for Eastern England: records, incl those of predecessor bodies (Accession 5091)

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

  • Papers of the Roskill Commission rel to public enquiry into proposed Third London Airport site at Cublington and Wing (AR 21/2005)
  • Papers of inquiry into compulsory purchase orders and side road orders for the A4146 Stoke Hammond and Linslade Western Bypass (AR 28/2005)

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies

  • Port of Chester shipping registers and registration papers (NR)

City of Westminster Archives Centre

  • Photographs of the reconstruction of the Grosvenor Canal and Basin and its opening ceremony (Acc 2425)

Cornwall Record Office

  • Frederick Stuart Harvey, Captain, Royal Fleet Auxiliary: personal papers and records rel to Edward Hain Shipping Line, St Ives (AD1704)

Coventry Archives

  • Alvis Owners Club, Coventry: records (PA2617)

Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters

  • South Tynedale Railway Preservation Society: records incl annual reports (DSO 226)

Denbighshire Record Office

  • Ruthin Highway Board: minutes (HBD/D/2)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Cromford & High Peak Railway Co: photographs (D6367)
  • Midland Railway Co, Derby: additional records (D6346)

Dorset History Centre

  • British Rail: British Railways Board: files rel to Dorset railways and stations (D.1742)
  • Somerset & Dorset Joint Line Railway: committee minutes (D.766)
  • Bournemouth Borough: planning, transport and land use maps (DC/BH)

Dudley Archives and Local History Service

  • A Harper Sons & Bean Ltd, iron foundry and motor car manufacturers, Tipton: records (9352)
  • Merry Hill Monorail, Wolverhampton: records (9335)

East Dunbartonshire Archives: Bearsden

  • William Black: research papers rel to the Bennie railplane at Milngavie (GD326)

East Dunbartonshire Archives: Kirkintilloch

  • North British Railway Co: records of Lenzie station incl daily returns and train receipt books (GD203)

East Kent Archives Centre

  • Aeriel photographs of Dover Car Ferry Terminal (EK/U173)

East Riding of Yorkshire Archives Service

  • North Eastern Railway Co: Hornsea Train Station accounts (DDX1086)
  • Driffield highway assessments and surveyors accounts for 1768, 1772-3, 1779, 1784 (photocopies) (DDX1040)

East Sussex Record Office

  • Offham, Malling and Ringmer Turnpike Trust: minutes and report (ACC 3806)

Essex Record Office

  • Eastern Automobiles, motor vehicle agents and engineers, Chelmsford: minute book 1914-30, with photographs and company histories (D/F 281)
  • Great Eastern Railway Society: further plans (D/Z 346 addl)

Falkirk Council Archives

  • National Union of Railwaymen: Falkirk branch: minutes (A1399)

Glamorgan Record Office

  • Rail Passengers Committee Wales, Cardiff: additional records (DRPC)
  • plans of the Rhondda Cynon Taf Highway (Bridge) (CRCT/ENV)

Guildhall Library

  • London Watermen and Lightermens Company: misc papers (Acc 2005/032)

Hampshire Record Office

  • Barbara Bryant, founder member of the Twyford Down Association: papers rel to road construction, particularly the M3, incl cuttings, publicity material, trial documents and audio-visual material (60A05W)

Isle of Wight Record Office

  • Moss Motor Tours Ltd, Sandown: register of attendance at board meetings (ac2005/37)
  • Yarmouth Harbour Commissioners: records incl accounts and estimates (ac2005/83)

Jersey Archive

  • Jersey Motor Transport Company Ltd: minutes, accounts, plans, timetables and photographs (JA/1026)

Kingston Museum and Heritage Service

  • Jim Marson, British Aerospace employee, Kingston: papers (KX413)

Lancashire Record Office

  • Association of Cruising Enthusiasts (Lancaster Canal): minutes, accounts, corresp and other records (DDX 2527 acc 9890)
  • The Motorway Archive: records rel to Lancashire motorways (DDX 2286)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Joseph Jelley, railway signalman: notebook rel to work as signalman for the London and North Western Railway Company (DE6762)

Lincolnshire Archives

  • Rail Passengers Committee for Eastern England: records rel to proposed Grantham inner relief road (MISC DON 1312)

Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre

  • Leonard Hill, photographer, Rochester: additional photographs incl views of M2 motorway bridge construction (DE1008)
  • Dickens County Protection Society: additional records rel to proposed airport on Hoo peninsula (DE1003)
  • Dickens County Protection Society: additional records rel to the 'No Airport at Cliffe' campaign (DE1000)

Norfolk Record Office

  • Anthony Beaumont, writer on steam engines and traction: family and personal papers (ACC 2005/69)
  • William Arthur Hill, station master, King's Lynn: papers rel to royal and special train services at King's Lynn (ACC 2005/37, 228)
  • National Joint Council for County Council Roadmen: minute book (ACC 2005/128)
  • Norfolk Public Transport Users Consultative Committee: further minutes and papers (ACC 2005/43)
  • British Rail:Yarmouth Southtown signal box train registers (ACC 2005/231)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Baguley Brothers, taxi cab proprietors, Nottingham: invoices (Acc 6925)

Perth and Kinross Council Archive

  • LMS Railway Ambulance Brigade (Crieff): minutes (Accnno01/11)

Portsmouth Museums and Records Service

  • Jenkins collection: photographs and slides of trains using stations and track in Portsmouth area (1802A)

Sheffield Archives

  • Armytage & Sons Ltd, steel railway material merchants and track installers, Sheffield: day books, order books, ledgers and catalogues (2005/11)
  • Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Co: Acts and deeds plans for South Yorks railways and branches (updated to early 20th cent) (2005/16)
  • Henry Wigfall & Sons, cycle manufacturers and domestic appliance retailers, Sheffield: records incl minutes, shareholders records, annual reports (2005/125)

Surrey History Centre

  • Southern Railway Co: glass slides of various lines (7724)
  • Civil Aviation Authority: Heathrow Airport: arrival and departure logs (7761)
  • Rail Passengers Council: minutes, annual reports and records rel to line closure (7858)
  • Surrey County Council: records rel to Rights of Way Act 1932, definitive map records and objections (CC1089)
  • Notebooks of surveyor laying out the London and Brighton Direct Railway (7812)
  • Archaeological archive rel to A3 Thursley Junction, incl plans, photographs and photographic register (7738)

Tyne and Wear Archives Service

  • Joseph E Arthur, cabin boy, SS Earsdon: journal (DX1191)
  • James C G Smith, inspector, North Eastern Railway Police: news cuttings book and papers (DX1180)
  • WA Souter & Co Ltd, shipowners, Newcastle upon Tyne: additional records, mainly minutes of Sheaf Steam Shipping Co Ltd and Bamburgh Shipping Co Ltd (DT.SOU)

Warwickshire County Record Office

  • JA Evans: diaries whilst serving as a radio operator on SS Atlantic and SS Chemong (CR3990)

West Glamorgan Archive Service

  • Neath Abbey Iron Co, Neath: engine plans (D/D NAI)
  • Port Talbot Harbour Authority: records of arrivals
  • Swansea shipping registers: additional registers of ships
  • map of Tennant Canal and proposed Neath, Pontardawe and Brynaman railways (D/D Z 622)

Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office

  • British Rail: Western Region: plans and drawings (18,000) rel to Swindon Works and infrastructure of GWR and successor bodies (2515)

Wirral Archives

  • Mersey Railway Co: misc records (ZMR)

National

National Archives of Scotland

  • HJ Sharp & Co, coal exporters and shipbrokers, Leith: letter books (GD1/1375)

National Railway Museum Research Centre

  • Timothy Hackworth, Railway Engineer: papers rel to Hackworth and his family, incl corresp, notes and certificates (2005-7400, 7401, 7441)
  • Philip Hardwick, architect: documents rel to Hardwick's work as architect of Euston Station (2005-7138)
  • Harold Holcroft, Railway Engineer: papers incl corresp, patents, and scrapbook of a visit to Germany (1936) (2005-7379)
  • Sidney Springgay, ship's purser: papers rel to career on Southern Railways and British Railways incl "Tales of the Channel" unpublished typescript memoirs, corresp, press releases and photographs (2005-7549)
  • Charles Williams, railway historian: MSS notebooks listing alterations to the London and North Western Railway's locomotive fleet (2005-7278, 7279)
  • British Rail: British Railways Board: staff suggestion scheme registers and volumes from North Eastern, London Midland and Western Regions, minutes from staff suggestion committees (2005-7449-7466)
  • North British Railway Co, Edinburgh: drawings, mainly of locomotive components, from predecessor companies Sharp Stewart & Co., Dubs & Co. and Neilson & Co. (2005-7342)
  • Barrow-in-Furness port: volumes recording tides and details of vessels using Ramsden Dock (2005-7506, 7507, 7508)
  • Railway and Canal Historical Society: records incl minutes, field notes and reports (2005-7240)

Science Museum Library

  • Printed ephemera rel to air shows and early aviation (MS 1862-1867 MS 1872-1875 MS 1877-1878)

Special

Manx National Heritage Library

  • Isle of Man Railway Co: additional records salvaged from the Customs House (11137)

University

Aberdeen University, Special Libraries and Archives

  • North Of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Shipping Co Ltd: additional records (MS 3697)

Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections

  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer: plans and sections, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (DM 2031)
  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer: Great Western Railway drawings (20) (DM 2010)

Glasgow University Archive Services

  • John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel: additional papers rel to Sir William Burrell's Trust, the Burrell collection architects' competition and the M77 extension (DC371)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House

  • James Farquharson, engineer: transcript of speech on railways in East Africa and Sudan (MSS Afr. s. 2400)

Warwick University: Modern Records Centre

  • Commerical Vehicle and Road Transport Club: records (MSS.536)
  • Cyclists Touring Club: addnl minutes (MSS.328C)
  • Cyclists Touring Association: Metropolitan District Association: minutes of the South West London section (MSS.328n050)
  • International Transport Workers Federation: records (MSS.159)
  • papers of R. A. Fryar rel to the AEC Southall contribution to the design, development and proving of the Routemaster (MSS.226X/AE/10)