Stoke Carriage & Wagon Drawings List Description: The collection consists mainly of engineering drawings relating to locomotives, carriages and wagons maintained or built at the Stoke Works of the North Staffordshire Railway. There are other drawings from the output of the drawing office relating to machinery, civil engineering and the production of munitions during the First World War. System of arrangement: The original order of the collection has been difficult to ascertain due to the lack of any specific records of drawing office practice. However, during the course of listing the contents it has become clear that there are three distinct groups of drawings. The Locomotive Works and the Carriage & Wagon Works maintained their own separate numerical sequences for their drawings. This has been restored and the two main sets of drawings sorted into numerical order within these two divisions and listed according to this convention. In each case sequences of previously un-numbered drawings have been added. These have the additional prefix UN and have been allocated artificial numbers by the National Railway Museum in series from 50001 and 60001 respectively. There is a third group of mainly small drawings known as ‘sketches’ and with a single numerical sequence and a ‘SK’ prefix. These have also been separately sorted. Within the Carriage and Wagon sequence there are three further small sets of drawings, but the numbers do not seem to interfere with the normal numbering pattern. To identify these drawings they have been allocated the prefix ‘MC’ for those drawings originating with Metro-Cammell of Saltley and ‘N’ for those originating with J Stone & Co. The third sequence of three drawings only have the prefix RCD and appear to be related to War Office production during the Great War. All three sets have been allocated to separate boxes for storage and retrieval purposes, as it is not clear whether the numbering sequence is proper to the Stoke Works. Physical Characteristics: The vast majority of the drawings are wax linen copies in variable condition, with occasional paper copies and blueprints. Some have been subject to water damage in the past and several drawings have been damaged by oil stains and mould. In these latter instances copying will be virtually impossible and handling will be restricted. Administrative/Biographical History: The North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) came into being in April 1845. The earliest locomotives were built by outside contractors, among them Sharpe Brothers & Co, Robert Stephenson & Co, Vulcan Foundry, Hudswell Clarke, Kitson’s and Neilson & Co. The NSR opened its own works at Stoke on Trent in 1864. They occupied a 12-acre site near the main line at Stoke Junction, between the canal and the company roundhouse. The location was cramped and difficult to access off the Leek branch line, becoming more difficult as the Works were expanded and developed. At first they were only able to complete repairs and heavy rebuilding. Facilities for new building were completed in 1868. By 1901 the locomotive works employed 450 men and the carriage and wagon works a further 400. Figures for 1914 were 483 and 391 respectively. The locomotive stock continued to include both contractor and local built stock, and this mixture is reflected in the surviving collection of engineering drawings from the Stoke Works Drawing Office. The North Staffordshire Railway also worked and maintained the Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway, a 2’6” narrow gauge line opened in 1904. Among the more unusual drawings produced at the Stoke Works are vehicles for this 9-mile line. In common with many railway works the Stoke drawing office was employed to produce drawings for machinery, buildings and other developments as demanded by the company. During the 1914-1918 war they also produced drawings for shells and fuses as part of the war effort, examples of which have survived into the collection. Responsibility for engineering and the works passed through several hands from 1848 to closure in 1927. The following table lists the names of the men in overall control, but there were separate and subordinate managers for the Locomotive Works and for the Carriage & Wagon Works. Key Personnel: 1848-1865 Engineer J C Forsyth 1865-1870 Engineer J Johnson 1870-1874 Locomotive Superintendent T W Dodds 1874-1875 Locomotive Superintendent R N Angus 1876-1882 Locomotive Superintendent C Clare 1882-1902 Locomotive, Carriage & Wagon Superintendent L Longbottom 1902-1915 Locomotive, Carriage & Wagon Superintendent J H Adams 1915-1923 Locomotive, Carriage & Wagon Superintendent J A Hookham No new locomotives were built after 1923, when the North Staffordshire Railway was absorbed into the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS). The last Works Manager (1919-1927) was H G Ivatt, who later became the CMEE of the LMS. The Works were officially closed in 1926, finally running down by 1927 when most of the employees transferred to Crewe Locomotive Works. As a consequence it is also possible to find drawings of locomotives originating with the North Staffordshire Railway and the Stoke Works among the Crewe Works collection. Some have also found their way into the Derby Works collection as a result of subsequent rationalisation by the LMS. Scale/ Drawing Roll L or C Prefix Suffix Tin No. Title Additional Date Other Information No. Detail C001 C 12 Brake Safety Loop F/s C001 C 60 Wheel and axle H/s Mansell type Scale/ Drawing Roll L or C Prefix Suffix Tin No. Title Additional Date Other Information No. Detail Goods Brake Van, 16' 0" length, 9' 7" 19 October C001 C 68 9 1" Signed WWW and L Longbottom wheelbase (10 ton type) 1888 C001 C 101 Third class carriage, 35' underframe 1.5''/1' Initialled WWW, Diagram 4 GA C001 C 104 3rd Class Brake, 35' underframe Signed Luke Longbotom, Initialled WWW Underframe for Fatstock Van: 18'3" over 18 August Initialled "WWW" and signed "L C001 C 132 headstocks, 10'0" wheelbase, 2'0" buffers 1891 Longbottom" C001 C 133 Fat Stock Van bearing spring H/s C001 C 144 5 Drawbar and buffer for milk van and PLV -- C001 C 146 5 28' 81/2'' wood frames quater Drawbar & buffers for 29'3'' coaches Spring – subject unspecified, 13 leaves, 4' 0" Signed L Longbottom "cancelled December C001 C 157 H/s when straight 1895" C001 C 164 5 Spring for bearings, 12 leaves, 3' 2" centres H/s C001 C 167 ? CCT elevations NSR 4'' bearing spring shoe for new 17'6'' traffic C001 C 177 full D1 wagons, Longbottom type drawing wagons First and second conmposite, 35' Diagram 1 note in margin, 'one or two still C001 C 180 underframe running' Twin Timber Truck: plan, cross section of C001 C 189 14-Nov-00 Date stamped side and bolster NSR Proposed loading gauge NSR compared C001 C Plan 202 1.5” 1916 to LNWR Loading gauge L&MVLR Transportation Car, alteration to C001 C 364 ? 1" part copy hand brake C001 C 1034 a Hopper wagon detail fittings -- C001 C 1034 Hopper wagon detail fittings -- 20-Sep-16 pattern 822, MI brackets made in place of C001 C 1268 5 Brake shaft bracket, 10 ton wagon 14-Apr-01 this April 1917 C001 C 1270 Leaf Spring H/s Sgd L Longbottom Carriage axleboxes, radial 8'' x 33/4'' C001 C 1315 full 16-Aug-06 axlebox drawings journals Carriage axleboxes, radial 8'' x 33/4'' C001 C 1315 A full castings journals Steel castings, 35' underframe, radial truck C002 C 1450 dampers Scale/ Drawing Roll L or C Prefix Suffix Tin No. Title Additional Date Other Information No. Detail C002 C 1451 Steel castings, radial truck hornplates Radial guides for Webb's Radial carriage C002 C 1452 3''/1' axle, 35' stock C002 C 1453 Controlling springs, radial axle, 35' carriages half C002 C 1454 Carriage underframe 35', GA 1.5''/1' Radial truck end marked C002 C 1455 Headstock for 35' carriage underframe 3''/1' LMS NSS C&W Buffer arrangement, 35' carriage C002 C 1456 3''/1' shows buffer springs & housings underframe 35' carriage underframe, bearing springs & C002 C 1457 full, 3''/1' brake brackets bracketss Wrought iron details, 35' carriage C002 C 1458 half brake hangers, pull rods underframe C002 C 1460 Radial truck, 35' underframe 3''/1' GA of radial truck and frames Coupling hooks, wrought iron details for 35' C002 C 1462 f/s carriages Wrought iron detials 35' carriage C002 C 1463 half rods, springs, irons, hornguards underframe Note: 2 thus fitted at radial end coach with C002 C 1464 Bearing springs, 35' underframe 3''/1' RT, 2 fitted at centre without RT C002 C 1465 35' carriage underframe, brake details half brake brackets C002 C 1466 35' underframe, brake arrangement Vac cylinder & Rod 35' Carriage Underframe: step irons, body C002 C 1468 bolts and train pipe, for third class, third 1" N/d Note: "for lavatory composite see 1534" brake and five compt composite carriages C002 C 1469 A Step irons 3''/1' carriage stepirons C002 C 1469 Step irons, 35' carriage underframe 3''/1' C002 C 1470 35' carriage underframe, step boards 1'/1''. full for 3rd, composite and Brake 3rd 35' carriage underframe, vacuume brake Original diagonal version, signed by J C002 C 1473 arrangement Adams, initialed WWW 35' carriage underframe, brake blocks & C002 C 1492 full Note on buffer replacement, 26/11/1927 buffer guide C003 C 1520 Wrought Iron Buffer, 1' 0" diameter head N/d C003 C 1526 1st and 3rd lavatory composite 35’ carriage -- Scale/ Drawing Roll L or C Prefix Suffix Tin No. Title Additional Date Other Information No. Detail C003 C 1527 2 Auto vac brake arrangement, 29' carriages See 1590.