Volume of Original Hand-Drafted Technical Drawings of Early Steam Locomotive, showing engines of the Great Northern Railway.

Verlag: n.p. [c.1867], 1867

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34pp filled in, followed by 86pp blank or with pencil notes only. Paper watermarked T. Dewdney 1854. Contemp. straight-grained dark maroon morocco, unlettered; head & tail of spine worn. Long pencil note on leading blank showing the volume was purchased from the bookseller H. Young & Sons, Liverpool, in Oct. 1907. Later page of notes & covering letter loosely inserted. An unsigned volume of highly accomplished scale drawings, with technical specifications provided in manuscript within printed boxes, showing the earliest locomotives used by the Great Northern Railway. The hand-drawn and delicately coloured drawings each measure approximately 9 x 4.5cm, located at the top left of a double-page spread. They are followed by printed boxes, in which technical details and dimensions can be recorded. These 'vital statistics' have not routinely been filled in, but where they have been, are written in a neat precise hand. Information provided pertains to boilers, pumps, cylinders, axles, fireboxes, blastpipes, safety valves, wheels and weight. Overall thirteen locomotives are illustrated. Spaces for further illustrations follow, with pencil notes indicating which designs are to be added. In one place an illustration has been started, but the draftsman stopped after drawing the locomotive's driving wheels. A later loosely inserted page of notes sheds more light on the volume, identifying all the locomotives (both the finished designs and those projected), and providing the dates they entered service. All the engines are shown to have worked on the Great Northern Railway during its earliest years of operation; the first noted as delivered between 1847 and 1849; the most 'recent' from 1867, when the volume was likely compiled. The writer of these annotations is identified as C.F. Dendy Marshall, the important railway historian and expert on early locomotives, who notes in a covering letter, dated May 3rd 1938, that the initials B.B.&C.I. appear later in the volume; a reference, he believes, to the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. He accordingly concludes the volume is 'not official', adding 'unless someone left the GNR to go to the Bombay Railway'. Whether or not the present volume was 'official', we cannot say, but it is clear that it was compiled by someone with an intimate knowledge of the GNR's locomotives, and also an individual with first rate penmanship. A fascinating and unique volume. …

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Bibliografische Details

Titel
Volume of Original Hand-Drafted Technical Drawings of Early Steam Locomotive, showing engines of the Great Northern Railway.
Autor
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
Verlag
n.p. [c.1867]
Erscheinungsjahr
1867

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