Crown Agents

This page summarises records created by this Organisation

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

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