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CRT/BMT/72

London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. Trent and Mersey Navigation. Specifications and tenders for ice boats and other maintenance craft

Description

Bundle of papers concerned with tenders for various maintenance boats for the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company for the Trent and Mersey Navigation. Basic list is included as follows: 1. Specification for wooden ice boat 39' x 7' x 3'3" 2.Canal repair boat 69' x 7' x 3'3" (1944) 3.Tug/icebreaker specification 30' x 7' x3'3" 4 Notes on specifications for new mud boat (1937) 5. tender for wooden ice boat (1924) (copy of 1?) 6. Particulars of canal engineers' working boats, mud boats and ice boats c.1904 with later additions noted, includes age, when built or last repaired. Lawton, Fradley, Middlewich and Stone 7. Similar list to 6. in 1927 8. Specification of timber trading boat 70' x 7' x 3'9" 9. Canal bricklaying boat (2 copies) 10. Ice boat(as 1. and 5.) 11. Tender for wooden ice boat (1924) 12. draft handwritten notes for tenders and estimated costs 13. Canal repair boat as for no3 14. Tender for ice boat 1924 15. Timber trading boat, 25-27 tons (see 8) 16 Two new working boats.. 70'6" x 7' x 3'9" (1907) 17. Notes of specification for motor tug/icebreaker 1937

Date

1924-1944

Reference code

CRT/BMT/72

Creator

W J Yarwood & Sons Limited

Administrative /​ Biographical history

Assumed. A photocopied quotation from Yarwoods for a part for MT 'France-Hayhurst' was included with the bundle.

Extent & medium

1 bundle

System of arrangement

No particular arrangement, handwritten list at front of bundle (see Scope and content) is a later addition.

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