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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1851/BOX/17
TitleBryan Donkin: box 17
Date20th cent
DescriptionItem 1: Industrial photography: photographs showing various Bryan Donkin Company machinery and images of factories, including some aerial shots. Sites including Northampton, Daventry, Melton Mowbray and Sileby. Also including photographs of machinery at unidentified site, stamped "Societe Rateau" on the reverse, c1950s
Item 2: Industrial photography: photographs of gas piping, with letter of 25 Jan 1968 from Bryan Donkin Company to North Thames Gas Board re pre-assembled gas governor units, enclosing two relevant photographs, c1960s
Item 3: Industrial photography: photographs of various Bryan Donkin Company machinery, including brief descriptions and some locations, e.g. "booster and governor at Hullacombe, Torquay", "reciprocating gas compressors at Nantgarw coke oven, South Wales", c1950s-1960s
Item 4: Industrial photography: photographs of Bryan Donkin Company machinery, e.g. boosters and pumps, at unidentified locations, c1950s-1960s
Item 5: Exhibition photographs: three photographs of the 1972 Compressed Gas Association Exhbition, comprising two shots of the Bryan Donkin Company stand, and one of Doug Howard of Union Gas in conversation beside it, 1972
Item 6: Machinery photographs: assorted images of Bryan Donkin machinery and components, Early-mid 20th Cent
Item 7: Machinery photographs: Donkin Reynolds District Governor, including product specifications and 2 product photographs, 1969
Item 8: Promotional material: posters of Bryan Donkin Company machinery including product specifications, e.g. for centrifugal compressors, steel ball safety valve, c1950s-1970s
Item 9: Machinery photographs: album of photographs of Bryan Donkin machinery supplied to numerous companies, including descriptions and specifications and details of the client company, c1960s-1974
Item 10: Machinery photographs: four bundles of photographs of broken or faulty parts or machinery, including: 2 sets of photographs from Ulu Pondar Singapore, showing faulty blowers, Feb 1981; damaged impellers at Rustenburg, South Africa; and machine damage in Cape Town, South Africa, c1970s-1980s
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorBryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield (1902-c1997), formerly of Bermondsey, Surrey (1803-1902), engineering firm
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