Railway transport
Found in 225 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 26 May 1922
Introduction by General Jan Smuts to the history of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route [Africa]. Sent with CHAR 2/124B/121.
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1911
(Untitled), 16 May 1911
Letter from Louis Brennan (Brennan Factory, Gillingham, Kent] to WSC (Home Office) on his work to produce improved designs for the construction of his [monorail] cars in Germany. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 09 Feb 1912
Letter from Sir Bindon Blood (Dartmouth House, 2 Queen Anne's Gate, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his successful speech in Belfast [Ulster] and enclosing a memorandum and correspondence on the Trans-Persia [Iran] railway scheme [not present].
(Untitled), 10 Jan 1912
Cutting from the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury" on the forthcoming discussion at the conference of the Royal Economic Society on railway nationalisation and the financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland.
(Untitled), Apr 1915
Pamphlet: Particulars concerning the Bachelet Railway Company Sent with CHAR 2/65/30.
(Untitled), 13 Mar 1907
Letter from John Morley [later Lord Morley] (India Office) to WSC on government funding [for Louis Brennan's gyroscopic monorail system].
(Untitled), 11 Apr 1907
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.
(Untitled), 15 Apr 1907
Letter from John Morley [later Lord Morley (India Office) to WSC enjoining secrecy [? about the grant to Louis Brennan for his monorail system].
(Untitled), 10 May 1907
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.
(Untitled), 27 Apr 1908
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.
(Untitled), 10 May 1908
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.
(Untitled), 13 Aug 1908
(Untitled), 26 Dec 1908
(Untitled), 29 Dec 1908
(Untitled), 15 Apr 1910
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.
(Untitled), 23 Apr 1910
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.
(Untitled), 28 Jan 1910
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.
(Untitled), 03 Nov 1910
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.
(Untitled), 03 Nov 1910
Letter from General Sir William Nicholson [later Lord Nicholson] (War Office) to WSC on the shortcomings of [Louis] Brennan's monorail system.
(Untitled), 07 Nov 1910
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.
(Untitled), 07 Nov 1910
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].
(Untitled), [1910]
Description by Louis Brennan of the technical and commercial development of his monorail system. Typescript.
(Untitled), [c 1903]
Diagram of a passenger car for the Manchester and Liverpool Electric Express Railway.
(Untitled), 1903
Prospectus of the Manchester and Liverpool Electric Express Railway Company. Printed. 6, [2p. Sent with CHAR 2/46/74-49].