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An undated booklet titled 'A Railway Traveller's Reasons for Adopting Uniformity of Gauge Addressed to I.K. Brunel, Esq', attempting to describe the inconvenience to the traveller of a break in gauge.

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A volume titled 'Reply to 'Observations' of the Great Western Railway Company on the Report of the Gauge Commissioners', containing replies to the Great Western Railway's statements on the question of gauge from members of the narrow gauge railways.

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Replies from the railway companies to circulars sent out by the Railway Gauge Commission asking for particulars.

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A copy of the 'Report of Nicholas Wood to the Directors of the Great Western Railway', setting out the advantages and disadvantages of differing modes of construction and materials.

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Printed report by Pejavar Mohan Rau [Financial Commissioner for Railways].

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: defence; the Labour Government's National Economic Plan (1965); price increases under Labour; strikes; National Savings; providing incentives in industrial and commercial life; Labour transport policy on roads, rail and London commuter rail services; inflation; the British view of the United States; immigration; taxation; Labour incomes and prices policy; the Budget (1965); the balance of trade; Labour public spending; renewing...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: relations between politicians and the press; free speech, particularly adverse reactions to JEP's speeches and intolerance shown by universities; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; housing policy; the world monetary system; the balance of payments deficit; reform of the House of Lords; Labour prices and incomes policy; taxation; nationalisation, particularly of the railways; Conservatism since 1951; trade union law; national unity,...

Scope and Contents Speech notes, typescript and galley proofs for WSC's speech (5 March, House of Commons) entitled "Defence" on subjects including: WSC's resignation as Minister of Defence; the Conservatives' voting on defence while in Opposition; the short-fall of defence spending; aid from the United States; the scarcity of home defence, and the training of new forces, including the registration of the Home Guard and forming of new battalions; the extension of National Service; armoured forces and new...

Scope and Contents Typescript of WSC's speech (5 March 1909) on Daylight Saving Bill [introducing British Summer Time, one hour ahead of GMT]. Published: Complete Speeches II, pp 1183 - 7.Typescript and manuscript notes for WSC's speeches on Labour Exchanges [WSC spoke on Labour Exchanges Bill on 19 May, 16 June and 2 July 1909]. Complete Speeches II, pp 1239 - 47, 1264 - 71 and 1276 - 7.Manuscript notes for WSC's speeches on the Railway Amalgamation Bill [WSC spoke on Railway Amalgamation on 31 Mar, 5 and 6...

Scope and Contents Typescript for WSC's speech (21 January, Chamber of Commerce Dinner, Midland Hotel, Manchester), entitled "Trade" on 20th century economic conditions, currency stability, rating reform, economic development, taxation and the cotton trade. Also includes a press cutting from the Manchester Guardian reporting the speech. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 4541 - 4546.Speech notes for WSC's speech (6 February, Town Hall, Battersea, London), entitled "Battersea By-Election" on the Government's...

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A booklet titled 'The Broad and the Narrow Gauge; or, Remarks on the Report of the Gauge Commissioners. By Henry Lushington', giving a personal opinion of the Report of the Gauge Commissioners.

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A booklet titled 'The Broad Gauge The Bane of the Great Western Railway Company by £ s d', investigating the problems caused by the broad gauge to the Great Western Railway Company.

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A booklet titled 'The Broad Gauge proved the one best adapted to the Commercial Wants of the Nation, most suited to the increasing traffic of the country, as well as being the safest, and speedier means of transit, and most eligible investment for capital. By an Engineer', setting out the advantages of the broad gauge.

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'Railways. The Gauge Question. Evils of a Diversity of Gauge, and a Remedy. By Wyndham Harding.'

Scope and Contents The collection includes material relating to Hynd's spell as Minister for Germany and Austria from 1945 to 1947 and his consequent life-long interest in Germany and in promoting good relations between Germany and Great Britain. There are several files of papers in the collection illustrating this aspect of his career as well as his involvement in other aspects of foreign relations. Having started his career as a railway clerk in his home town of Perth, Hynd kept some of his early...

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The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre consists of research papers for Bonavia's books "The Nationalisation of British Transport" and "The Channel Tunnel Story" and includes photocopies of government material held at the Public Record Office.

Scope and Contents The papers include: diaries and engagement books; personal and general correspondence; early scientific papers and laboratory notebooks; papers and correspondence relating to Balliol College; papers relating to Hartley's chemical warfare work in the First World War; papers of the Axis Oil Committees, concerned with the problem of oil supplies to the Axis in the Second World War; the FIDO papers, from a committee headed by Hartley on Fog Investigation Dispersal Operations, also during the...

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The papers consist of texts and prints of articles, papers, lectures, photographs and research notes by Jones on engineering topics, particularly rail technology, the Advanced Passenger Train and the conformable wheel.

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'The Railway Directory for 1845.'

Scope and Contents The first minute or so of side 1 is from the end of NK's Interview on the Jimmy Young Programme, 13 April 1989. The majority of side 1 consists of a discussion (with some background restaurant noise) and press interviews on subjects including: manufacturing industry; the state of the coal industry; the dock workers' dispute; the disparity between the South East and the rest of the country; investment in railway development; policy on Europe.Side 2 is the majority of NK's Jimmy...

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A booklet titled 'Unity of the Iron Network: showing how the last Argument for the Break of Gauge Competition, is at variance with the true interests of the Public. By Thornton Hund', produced by the advocates of the narrow gauge, and indicating the disadvantages of a break of gauge.

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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...