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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1851/BOX/11
TitleBryan Donkin: box 11
Date20th cent
DescriptionSee D1851/Box/12 for Items 1-4, 6-28

Item 5: ?Photocopies taken from technical publications, 20th cent
Item 29: Album of photographs showing indoor shots [of Bryan Donkin works] including the Titan Core Machine and cores produced by it, c1930s
Item 30: Photographs re failure of No 6 compressor, Hitchin, 1971
Item 31: Outdoor photographs of subjects including Bryan Donkin works, Livesey washer with bypass connections, exhauster house at Tetbury (Co Glos), mid 20th cent
Item 32: Album of photographs showing compressors, exhausters, blowers and other machinery, with explanatory captions, c1950s
Item 33: Photographs re breakdown of No 4 Crosshead of No 1 Compressor at Hythe, c1970s
Item 34: Photographs re failure of main oil pump No 1 at Hythe, c1970s
Item 35: Large bundle of photographs showing regulators and other equipment at numerous sites including Birkenhead, Stoke-on-Trent and Sydney, Australia, as well as Bryan Donkin works in Chesterfield, also including photographic negative of machinery in the Gas Light and Coke Company works at Brentford in 1930. Most photographs are stamped with the name of Harper and Taylor, commercial photographers, of Liverpool. A small number bear captions, mid 20th cent
Item 36: Album of photographs showing machinery at a Scottish Gas Board plant at Netherton, Wishaw (Co Lanark), made by the Bryan Donkin Company, mid 20th cent
Item 37: Photographs of visitors inspecting machinery [i.e. governor test engine, Matlock], 1955-1956
Item 38: Photographs of pistons and other components, sent to Bryan Donkin Company by South Eastern Gas Board, 1971
Item 39: Outdoor photographs of machinery [?at a gas plant], mid 20th cent
Item 40: Photographs of Bryan Donkin Company social gatherings, One group photograph accompanied by corresponding list of names, c1980s, mid 20th cent
Item 41: Photographs of machinery components [from roots blower pump produced for Shell Mex and BP]
Item 42: Photograph of an exihitibion in Singapore, Jul 1994. Showing (left to right) Alan Blair, Alan Brightmore, Richard Smith and two representatives of United Engineers (Bryan Donkin Company agents)
Item 43: Item 42: Photograph of a Bryan Donkin Company agent in his Beijing apartment, with (left to right) Alan Clark (General Manager, Gas Controls), Geoff Keighley (Managing Director), Bryan Sims (General Manager, Valves) and Allan Ward (Director, South East Asia section of Bryan Donkin Company). 1990s
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorBryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield (1902-c1997), formerly of Bermondsey, Surrey (1803-1902), engineering firm
CopiesA digital copy of this file can be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
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