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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D3287/BSA/5/103 |
| Title | Cooper Steam Diggers:
correspondence & supporting papers re suggestion that British South Africa Company should back the introduction of steam cultivation into Southern Rhodesia [originating with Ross Townsend & supported by Lord Grey]; Aug-Sep |
| Date | 1902 |
| Description | including correspondence with Cooper Steam Digger Company Ltd., King's Lynn, re terms and costs;
with oil companies, etc., re cost of conversion of diggers to oil power, and Lord Grey and Ross Townsend re advisability of their introduction. |
| Level | file |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | British South Africa Company |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |