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Miscellaneous Letters, Memoranda, Specifications and Other Papers, 1875, 1886, 1887,...

Catalogue reference: MS 3147/7/27

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This record is a file about the Miscellaneous Letters, Memoranda, Specifications and Other Papers, 1875, 1886, 1887,... dating from 1875 - 1919.

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Reference

MS 3147/7/27

Title

Miscellaneous Letters, Memoranda, Specifications and Other Papers, 1875, 1886, 1887, 1890, 1919 (8 items).

Date

1875 - 1919

Description

27. Miscellaneous Letters, Memoranda, Specifications and Other Papers. 1875, 1886, 1887, 1890, 1919. 8 items.

Letter from Richard Halliday for Shorthouse & Halliday to G. B. Martin dated Hill Top, West Bromwich, 9 Aug. 1875, re price for silk bolter and frames.

Letter from Richard Halliday to G. B. Martin dated West Bromwich, 21 Feb. 1886, re terms for apprentices at Soho Foundry.

Specification of a 26 inch diameter 42 inch stroke high pressure vertical condensing engine for the Credenda Cold Drawer Seamless Steel Tube Co., Birmingham - copy of the specification sent by James Watt & Co., 3 Dec. 1887 (7 sheets).

Certificate of second class in Second Grade Examination in Model Drawing of Edgar Bollen Martin, aged 13, 5 May 1890 (with envelope).

Printed map of Sutton Park by James L. Allday, Edmund St., Birmingham.

"List of Photographs, Drawings, and Documents lent to the James Watt Centenary Committee" - typed and manuscript lists, both on paper headed Dugard Bros. Ltd., Vulcan Mills, Bridge St. West, Birmingham, dated 20 Aug. 1919.

Photostat copy of apprenticeship indenture of William Tongue, son of Samuel Tongue, apprenticed to Boulton & Watt at Soho, 5 Aug. 1797.

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Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service
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MS 3147/6

DRAWINGS - "AVERY" PORTFOLIOS

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Miscellaneous Letters, Memoranda, Specifications and Other Papers, 1875, 1886, 1887, 1890, 1919 (8 items).