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Crown Agents

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Alternative name(s):
  • Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations (Later known as)
Date: 1890-2000
Functions, occupations and activities: Government (central) > Crown Agents
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C37546 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O48411 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
20th cent: engineering drawings (c30,000), rel to railway and transport development in the British Empire and dependent territories
Railworld
See HMC Railworld corresp file
2
volumes of photographs and drawings chiefly rel to railway locomotives
Search Engine (National Railway Museum)
CA
See Transferred from Science Museum 2005
3
1890-1983: records incl contracts, reports and photographs rel to the construction and extension of the railways
Bristol Archives
1999/221