TEXT - PERIOD C. 1848-1850.

Pp C1-38. Contents: Main Features of Period; Personalia; Railway Period and Increasing Prosperity; Second Gold Medal at RASE Show, Derby 1843; Portable Steam Engines; Traction Engines and Steam Thrashing Machines and their Development; YL Plough at RASE Show Southampton; Transition from Wood to Iron Plough; Export Trade Beginnings; Railway Chairs and Fastenings; Education; Fetes and Banquet; Completion of Orwell Works; Removal of a Plough by W Worby; First Steam Hammer; Artificial Stone and Brick Making Machinery; G A Bidell; J A Ransome's "The Implements of Agriculture"; Watch Book; James Jones; Ipswich Dock Proposal; Orwell Works Meeting over Irish Distress. [C27 was not used]

Documents are inserted at the following points:

C6A 1842

ILLUSTRATION of first Ransome's Traction Engine with space on platform for carrying Thrashing Machine. BP

C7A 1849(15 Dec)

PRESS CUTTING concerning Ransome and May's Portable Locomotive Steam Engine at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show. "Illustrated London News" P 400 [Photocopy]

C8A-B 1914

EXTRACT from PN 6515. Pp 20-23. History of YL Plough

C8C 1926

EXTRACT from PN 8616E. Pp 3-4. Success of YL Plough.

C13A 1847(6 Feb)

PRESS CUTTING concerning RM "Elephant" Plough for sugar plantations, including engraving. "The Illustrated London News" Pp 81-2

C18A & B 1849(13 Jan)

PRESS CUTTING concerning the union of Ransomes and May's establishments at Ipswich, with engraving. "The Illustrated London News". Pp 29-32.

C20A 1848(29 Jul)

PRESS CUTTING concerning the removal of a dwelling house at the Orwell Works, with engraving. "The Illustrated London News". Pp 63-4.

C20B 1847(8 Nov)

LETTER to Charles May from Robert Naysmyth, Manchester concerning an early type of steam hammer.

C21 A 1851(23 Aug)

PRESS CUTTING concerning artificial stone produced by Ransome and Parsons of Ipswich, with engraving. "The Illustrated London News". Pp 253-4

C21B 1846(12 Dec)

PRESS CUTTING concerning agricultural implements at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, including Chaff Cutters, Churns, Seed Drills, Haymakers, Harrows, Clay Mills, General Drills, Cultivators, Cooking Apparatus and Brick Machinery, with engravings. "The Illustrated London News". Pp 383-4.

C35 [1860's]

PHOTOGRAPH of James Jones. [Mounted]

C35A 1865

BOOKLET - "Memoir of James Jones". Excerpt from the Annual Report of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1864-5. Pp 4.

C36 1836

REPORT on the proposed improvements in the port of Ipswich by Henry R Palmer, with an estimate of expense, list of vessels and a plan of the proposed wet dock. Pp 10.

C37 1838(12 Jun)

COPY OF CONTRACT between the Ipswich Dock Commissioners and Mr David Thornbory. Copy printed by order of a general meeting of the Commissioners, 1838(14 Sep). There are 2 schedules appended, the first including specifications of the Earth Work, Quay Timber Facing, Upper Dam, Wharfing, Quay Walls, Entrance Lock, Roadways and Sewers. Pp 19.

C38 1847

PRESS EXTRACT [Reprint] concerning artisan's meeting held at the Orwell Works on behalf of the distress in Ireland. "Ipswich Express" (9 Feb).