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Chart railway time and distance table, railway gradients
PART OF:
Papers of John Melling, Locomotive Superintendent
Made:
1850-1860
part of archive:
Papers of John Melling, Locomotive Superintendent
maker:
Melling, John
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MEL/6
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Papers of John Melling, Locomotive Superintendent
MEL/1 Letters patent, Great Britain Patentee: John Melling of Liverpool, UK. Intervention: certain improvements in locomotive steam engines also applicable to stationary engines [no technical details]
MEL/2 List of the number ‘number and names of locomotive engines on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway from the commencement up until the present time January 1837’ [lists diameters of cylinders and length of stroke]
MEL/3 List of locomotive engines on the Grand Junction Railway from the commencement up to April 10 1839’ [lists engines with old eccentric gearing and with Mellings Patent Improvements] list of ‘locomotive engines on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway from the commencement to the present time 10th April 1839’
MEL/4 Note of number of engines built with the patent gearing and amount received
MEL/5 Business card for T Mellings and son, Engineers, Rainhill Iron Works, Railway Station, Rainhill
MEL/6 Chart railway time and distance table, railway gradients
MEL/7 Letter Edward Woods, 6B Victoria Street, Westminster to Thomas Melling Esq, 39 Scarisbrick, New Raod, Southport asking when the ‘Old Rocket’ was sold and to whom - possibly 1833 to the Jane Colliery. He comments on changes made to Rocket after the Rainhill Trials by Melling’s father
