Pocket book of an unnamed West Midlands auctioneer, containing auction records rel to sale of canal barges, parts and equipment, cranes and hardware 1834 (MS 560)
Ernest Matthias Feuerheerd: papers mainly rel to his work on mechanical hammers and a needle-threading device 1941-48 (MS 2085)
Lancashire and Yorkshire North Eastern Railway: circulars and advertisements rel to its formation (Arch: Lyne)
Samuel Bentham: broadsheet of Sir William Pettys plan for a system of instruction rel to the business of the Marine Department 1779 (MSL 190)
Two photographs of the launch of the airships R29 and R33 at Barrow, Selby, yorks 1920s (MS1505/1-2)
Portfolio of 12 lithographed locomotive drawings, supplements to The Engineer 1869-1881 (MSL 200)
J D Hamilton Dickson and Sir James Dewar: letters (c90) to them, mainly rel to experiments with vaccuum flasks (MS 566)
John Hammond: further research papers rel to books on camera obscura and camera lucida (Arch HAMMD 2)
National Physical Laboratory, Teddington: printed material rel to history 1924-57 (MS 2088)
Neptun, cable ship: album of eighteen photographs c1925 (MS 567)
Stanley Angwin, cable ship: general arrangement drawing 1952, blue print of midship section (MSL 213/1-2)
Photocopy of typescript of Ship Surveying in Singapore from 1866 onwards (no author) 1952 (MS 1515)
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