Scope and Contents
An album containing sixteen watercolours, comprising of a title-page (which continues: 'Chief Mechanical Engineer's Branch. Principal types of rollingstock. Scale 1/8 inch = 1 foot') and sixteen pages of lithographed plans and elevations showing various types of carriages and locomotives in use on the Victorian Railway System. Each drawing is accompanied by a brief text giving measurement, number of each model built and other technical specifications.
Dates
- Creation: 1902
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
16 item(s) (16 images) : watercolour
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented to the Royal Colonial Institute by the Right Honourable Lord Sydenham, K.C.M.G. in May 1913.
General
This collection level description was entered by WS using information from the original typescript catalogue.
Originator(s)
Unknown
- Date
- 2006-08-08 17:03:42+00:00
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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