Railways
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Fieldwork, 1878-1938
The series comprises numbered and un-numbered field notebooks;specimen catalogues; sketchbooks, photograph albums, and maps.
Membership cards for various railway clubs, 1971 - 1988
These are membership cards for:
The Railway Preservation Society (Chasewater Light Railway Co.Ltd.)
The Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Preservation Company Ltd.
The Britannia Locomotive Society
The Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society
The Festiniog Railway Society
The Peterborough Railway Society (Nene Valley Railway and Colne Valley Railway Preservation Society).
Papers of the British & Chinese Corporation Ltd, 1904-1973
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes and reports of the British & Chinese Corporation Ltd, including a set of numbered volumes and files (I2/9-15) kept by Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd as Agents of the British & Chinese Corporation Ltd, and including some correspondence of Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd acting in its role of Agents.
Photographs of India and Egypt
A set of 86 glass slides, and a number of blank slides, originally stored in 16 card slide boxes. The content relates to India (people and places), Indian railways, including maps, and Egypt. A number of slides are marked 'Imperial Institute'. The collection has not yet been catalogued. A preliminary box list is available; please contact the repository for details: rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk.
Railway Staff National Tribunal , 1938
Minutes of the tribunal (days 2-4, day 1 not present).
Railways correspondence, 1935-1940
Correspondence and related papers regarding railways, including material concerning the British & Chinese Corporation Ltd. Much of the correspondence is with J.J. Paterson, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd's Taipan at Hong Kong. The papers are mainly in English, but there are also some Chinese items.
'Rāh-i Āhan-i Sarāsar-i Iran, 1306–1317 Sh.' [Trans-Iranian Railroad, 1927–1938], 1938-08 - 1938-09
Bih Munāsibat-i Pāyān-i Sākhtimān-i Rāh-i Āhān-i Sarāsar-i Iran [On the Occasion of the Completion of the Trans-Iranian Railroad, published by Vizārat-i Ṭuruq [Ministry of Transportation]. Perhaps collected by Arberry on a visit to the region. It is unknown whether he features in the publication.