Catalogue description Various Transport Undertakings: Correspondence and papers

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Reference: RAIL 1008
Title: Various Transport Undertakings: Correspondence and papers
Description:

Wide range of material concerning leading personalities in the affairs of early transport.

Includes papers of Sir Daniel Gooch, Isambard K Brunel, John and Sir John Rennie, George and Robert Stephenson.

Date: 1794-1962
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HL
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 130 file(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

It is not known at what point this material became dissociated from the other records of the various companies concerned. Some of it however is more of a private than company nature, and probably came into what became the British Transport Commission collection in the form of donations

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