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Letter from John Morley [later Lord Morley] (India Office) to WSC on government funding [for Louis Brennan's gyroscopic monorail system].

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Letter from Louis Brennan (Woodland, Gillingham, Kent) to WSC announcing that the India Office have agreed to grant him (Brennan) £5000 and that the War Office will give him the use of the torpedo factory and other facilities for the development of his monorail system.

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Letter from John Morley [later Lord Morley (India Office) to WSC enjoining secrecy [? about the grant to Louis Brennan for his monorail system].

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Telegram from Alfred Jones (Liverpool) to WSC congratulating him on his recent remarks about monopolies and reporting that he (Jones) is about to go to Manchester to meet Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and to discuss policy on the railways and cotton-growing.

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Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton (Head Quarters, Southern Command, Tidworth House, Andover, [Hampshire]) to WSC on: WSC's report on the French army manoeuvres; Lloyd George's successful intervention in the railway dispute; the reform of the Territorial Army and the South African constitution as the main achievements of the present government. Signed typescript.

Scope and Contents Letter from Walter Runciman [later Lord Runciman] (West Denton Hall, Scotswood-on-Tyne, [Northumberland]) to WSC on: disruption by suffragettes of speeches by cabinet ministers; the Tories' split over Tariff Reform; the industrious campaigning of Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane]; reaction to Haldane's army estimates and 2nd Lord Tweedmouth's naval estimates; the introduction of old age pensions and Labour Party criticism of them; the prospect of the miners' group adhering to the Labour...

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London traffic: printed confidential memorandum for the Cabinet by David Lloyd George considering the means of dealing administratively with some of the problems identified in the report of the Royal Commission on the Means of Locomotion and Transport in Greater London. 5, [1p].

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Letter from Frederick Verney MP (12 Connaught Place, Marble Arch, [London]) to WSC inviting him to a dinner at the House of Commons to be attended by David Lloyd George and managers and workers in the railway industry with an interest in Boards of Conciliation. Praises the remarks of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] about Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

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Letter from Lord Churchill (Rolleston, Billesdon, Leicester) to WSC congratulating him [on his election for Dundee [Scotland]]. Refers to his experience on the board of the Great Western Railway, offers to provide information about the railways and urges WSC to meet the GWR's general manager.

Scope and Contents Letter from ? Paul Schoeberg (W.Behren-Strasse 62, [Berlin, Germany]) to WSC on: the copy of the life of Lord Randolph Churchill which WSC sent him; the current slowness of business being blamed by many people in England on free trade in Germany; the unpopularity in Turkey of the Dette Publique and the Regie des Tabacs and what the attitude of the "Powers" should be to this issue; Schoeberg's forthcoming trip to see the Baghdad Railway [Iraq]. Typescript copy of this letter at CHAR...

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC ([Blenheim]) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] on: 5th Lord Lansdowne's rejection of the suggestion that the House of Lords will reject the Budget Bill; the formulation of legislation on unemployment and infirmity insurance and labour exchanges; the need for some form of state control of the amalgamations of railway companies; the impending large government measures on finance and unemployment; the report of the Afforestation Commission. Copy in the hand of...

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] agreeing that Harold Tennant should replace Sir Hudson Kearley at the Board of Trade and enclosing the report of the trade unionists who went to Germany to study unemployment insurance and labour exchanges. Advocates following the German example with a large programme of social legislation to underpin existing voluntary agencies; in particular: labour exchanges and unemployed insurance, infirmity insurance, a...

Scope and Contents Report by [WSC] to [Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Grey of Fallodon] of his conversation with Count Paul von Wolff-Metternich [the German Ambassador]. Refers briefly to WSC's plans to visit Germany and see labour exchanges and the army manoeuvres, and to the situation between the Government and the House of Lords and the prospects for a General Election. Followed by lengthier considerations of: German naval armament and the German claim that it had been exaggerated by the British Government in...

Scope and Contents Report by [WSC] to [Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Grey of Fallodon, Foreign Secretary] of his conversation in Germany (where he did not speak to any Germans about politics) with Enva [Enver] Bey, the Turkish military attache, on the prospects for the new regime of the Young Turks, their military organisation on the German model, the difficulties caused to British trade by the raising of Turkish customs duties, and Turkish objections to the financial arrangements for the construction of the...

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Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (Fallodon, Christon Bank, Northumberland] to WSC on negotiations relating to the Baghdad Railway [Iraq] and Professor Sieper and the German government.

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Letter from H Hesketh Bell, governor of Northern Nigeria (Government House, Northern Nigeria, [Africa]) to WSC expressing the view that Northern Nigeria has less potential for development than Uganda and that its capacity for cotton-growing has been exaggerated. Reports good progress with the building of the railway line there. Congratulates WSC [on his appointment as Home Secretary].

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Letter from R V Vernon (Colonial Office) to Edward Marsh returning and commenting on a telegram received by WSC from the mayor of Larnaca [Cyprus] [see CHAR 2/45/86-87] on the Government's rejection of proposals for a railway between Larnaca and Nicosia, and enclosing a copy of a related despatch by Lord Crewe [see CHAR 2/45/90]. Signed typescript.

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Telegram from the mayor of Larnaca [Cyprus] to WSC conveying the disappointment in Larnaca over the Government's rejection of proposals for a railway between Larnaca and Nicosia. Returned with CHAR 2/45/85.

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Despatch from Lord Crewe (Colonial Office) to [the High Commissioner of Cyprus] explaining why the Governmnent cannot support a scheme for a railway between Larnaca and Nicosia. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/45/85.

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Letter from Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] (War Office) to WSC reporting that he is going to Aldershot [Hampshire] to examine the airship construction department there, and that he does not think the Government can usefully intervene in the deveopment of [Louis Brennan's] monorail system. States that he is ready to take up WSC's plan of a police territorial brigade.

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Letter from General Sir William Nicholson [later Lord Nicholson] (War Office) to WSC on the shortcomings of [Louis] Brennan's monorail system.

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Letter from F B Behr (20 Bury Street, St James's, [London]) to WSC (Home Office) describing the advantages of his monorail system over that of Louis Brennan. Encloses the prospectus for the Manchester and Liverpool Electric Railway Company [see CHAR 2/46/92-93]. Signed typescript annotated by WSC.

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Letter from S H Pollen (7 Embankment Gardens, [London]) explaining the shortcomings, from a commercial point of view, of Louis Brennan's monorail system. Signed typescript. Annotated that WSC replied on 27 Jan [1911].

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Description by Louis Brennan of the technical and commercial development of his monorail system. Typescript.

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Diagram of a passenger car for the Manchester and Liverpool Electric Express Railway.