| Description | Departmental memorandum between Anthony Frank Bentall and W S Ireland, Rolling Stock Engineer, and A L C Fell, concerning visits by Bentall to other tram undertakings to review what the London County Council Tram Stores should hold and how. Includes technical notes from individual visits.
Visits included: Dick Kerr & Company, Preston; British Thomson-Houston, Rugby; British Westinghouse Company, Trafford Park, Manchester; Manchester Corporation Tramways; Bradford Tramways; Sheffield Tramways; Burnley Tramways; Glasgow Corporation Tramways; Bolton Tramways; also visit of James Dalrymple, General Manager of Glasgow Corporation Tramways to London County Council.
Includes ephemera collected on the visits: a Burnley Corporation Tramways, Standard Driving Axle faded technical drawing; Sheffield posters 'Notice regarding Job Numbers'; British Thomson Houston order form with price list, July 1906, also two blueprints for Cylinder and Body Casting Development 1906, and Resistance Box Type NQ for Type N form B Units 1906; and a British Westinghouse authorisation card.
Also includes a London County Council Departmental memorandum pad with memoranda regarding a contract for 50 steel underframes. |