| Description | Items 1-3: Plant records: three volumes, each divided into sections according to type of machinery. Each section contains entries recording pattern numbers and brief descriptions of components. Some entries marked with dates, and notes recording scrapping of patterns. The first volume (most entries 1957-1958) includes occasional sketched diagrams, and a copy letter from J B Ferguson dated 3 Jan 1957 requesting scrapping of patterns for classical multi-stage and single stage fans. Volumes 2-3 (largely 1943) contain additional details [e.g.: capacity, core irons, drawback irons, foundry cores, floor moulding]. Equipment types include: Babcock and Wilcox blowers, Rateau fans, Reynolds District Governors, Connersville meters and blowers, vertical reciprocating compressors, and numerous others, c1930s-1950s
Items 4-7: Product literature: George Waller and Son company promotional and instructional material re compressors, gas governing, pumping and coke breaking machinery, e.g. reciprocating compressors, pump batteries, hydraulic tipping, coke washing plants etc, Early-mid 20th Cent
Items 8-9: Product literature: George Waller and Son company promotional and instructional material re blowers and valves, e.g. exhausters, boosters, non-return valves, double-faced valves etc., Early-mid 20th Cent
Item 10: Product literature: George Waller and Son company promotional and instructional material including catalogues of Waller products, mcahinery handbooks, magazine cuttings, description of a gags storage plant at Cirencester, Early-mid 20th Cent
Item 11: "Air Raid Precautions: Gas Filtration and Ventliation Plant for Air Raid Shelters", published by George Waller and Son Ltd. Includes circular covering letter, Early-mid 20th Cent
Item 12: "Celebrating 200 Years of Gas Supply, 1792-1992", published by British Gas PLC, 1992 |