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Defective Railway engines: Encloses report from James Richmond, Director of the Jamaica...

Catalogue reference: CO 137/618/86

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This record is about the Defective Railway engines: Encloses report from James Richmond, Director of the Jamaica... dating from 1901 Apr 17 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 137/618/86
Date
1901 Apr 17
Description

Defective Railway engines: Encloses report from James Richmond, Director of the Jamaica Government Railway insisting on an enquiry into the work of the Crown Agents; also forwards a report by Mr T H M Bonell, Inspector of Locomotives, into the defective state of the engines and their inability to burn American coal.

No 204, folios 725-732.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
15173/1901
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11973324/

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