Beyer, Peacock & Co Ltd, locomotive engineers

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Date:	1850-1986
Places:	Manchester, Lancashire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Mechanical > Railway equipment
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C124035 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6029 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1948-1984: photographic prints of company locomotives	Science and Industry Museum	2019-234	See Annual Return 2019
2	1850-1966: records incl corporate and financial records, order books, drawings , blueprints and technical notebooks, wages books, price lists	Science and Industry Museum	YA1966.24	NRA 32285 Beyer See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
3	c1854-1986: letters, photographs and papers	Science and Industry Museum	YA2012.23
4	c1960-1969: plans showing the layout works at Gorton	Science and Industry Museum	YA1993.136
5	c1855-1966: proposal drawings for locomotives incl the 'SuperGarratt' and designs for American locomotives, Drawing Office ledgers, original artwork and mock-ups from the Beyer, Peacock Quarterly Review	Science and Industry Museum	YA2003.6
6	c1891-1948: engineering plans of railway carriages for Great Central Railway	Science and Industry Museum	YMS0550
7	1908-1912: engineering drawings	Science and Industry Museum	YMS0677
8	c1935: technical drawings	Science and Industry Museum	YMS0261
9	1923-1964: photographs, prints and other records rel to locomotives for South African Railways and New South Wales Railways	Science and Industry Museum	YA2007.27	See Annual Return 2008
10	1940-1959: photographs and negatives of Beyer Peacock locomotives	Science and Industry Museum	YA1991.339
11	photographs and negatives of diesel locomotives	Science and Industry Museum	YA1995.337