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Reports on Saveoil creosoting machine, creosoting methods, suitability of timbers etc. [supplied title]

Collection:  NRM - Documents
Object Name:  volume & papers
Maker:  Great Northern Railway; Groom, Percy
Date Made:  1914-1915
Materials:  paper; card

Description:  Copy reports assembled by Lord Allerton of the GNR: experiments comparing the "Saveoil" process with the GNR's normal process and accompanying volume of photographs, October 1914; National Physical Laboratory report on tests on samples of 3 GNR sleepers creosoted under different processes; Prof. Percy Groom's report on the suitability of certain American woods as railway sleepers, April 1915; piece work earnings for men creosoting sleepers at Hall Hills works, April 1915; with some attendant correspondence.

Object Number:  2005-7525

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Great Northern Railway
1846-1922, railway company, London
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