Orton & Spooner Collection Photographs and Postcards 178C76 Correspondence 178F13 Business Records 178H8 Trade and Advertising Material 178I10 Maps, Charts and Plans 178M15 Original Artwork 178V10 Various and Miscellaneous 178Z49 178C76 1084 black and white photographs and negatives collected by David Braithwaite from the Orton and Spooner fairground manufacturing company 1880-1950 Largely identified and dated Orton and Spooner Collection 178F13.1 Postcard of Whitehaven pet goose sent to Mr G. Orton 24 March 1907 Orton and Spooner Collection 178F13.2 Postcard of Kendal Parish Church sent to Mr G. Orton 5 April 1907 Orton and Spooner Collection 178F13.3 Postcard of the Board School, Wrexham sent to Mr Orton by Sid 11 April 1907 Orton and Spooner Collection 178F13.4 Postcard of Furness Abbey sent to Miss Orton 20 July 1922 Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.1 Trade mark certificate for Orton and Spooner Buckeroos 5 April 1934 Typescript Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.2 Contract between Orton and Spooner and Enoch Farrar for loan of Devils Disc and trucks 7 February 1927 Manuscript and typescript Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.3 Business information and correspondence regarding individual repair and construction jobs, invoices and break down of costs with different clients including Farrar, Hackett & Company Ltd, H. Thurston, Woolls Bros., Henry Jones & Sons, Pat Collins, Broncho Bill’s Western Circus, G. Marshall, John Danter & Sons, Royal Continental Circus 1910-1927 Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.4 Certificates of insurance for Anderton & Rowland’s roundabout and Marenghi organ 1914 3 items Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.5 Company incorporation and dissolution contracts and legal arrangements between, Davenport and Hackett, Hackett & Co., and Geo. Orton & Sons and Mr Spooner, including the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Hackett and Company Ltd dated 22nd December 1924 1924-1925 Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.6 Book of orders containing lose documents and information on various suppliers 1927-1928 Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.7 Correspondence, receipts and invoices from George Orton to Mr E. Farrar 1902-1938 12 items, typescript and manuscript Orton and Spooner collection 178H8.8 Correspondence relating to dynamo quotations for fairground machines and living wagons including specifications and cost 1925-1927 Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.9 Books of letters containing copies of business letters 1894-1910 3 items Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.10 Account books 1923-1928 5 books and multiple lose items Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.11 Wage books and scraps of paper containing accounts 1912-1913 2 items Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.12 List of Frederick Savage’s exhibits in King’s Lynn Festival 1975 2 copies Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.13 Suppliers catalogues and reference material, including Selig, Sonnenthal & Co., Engineers, Philips and Beko lamps, Davenport, Hackett & Co., dynamos and motors, C. Lindley & Co., engineers, merchants and manufacturers, Tynecastle cornices and Higgs Motors 1904-1928 15 items Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.14 Drawings, samples and specifications for the design of fairground rides including original drawings on tracing paper by Orton and Spooner, Savages and Supercar Co., for gallopers, arks, coasters, ghost trains, wall of death, haunted houses, water dodgems, planes, etc. A newspaper article from the National Motor Journal, and specifications for Anderton and Rowland and John and Pat Collins 1908-1937 Approx. 215 pages Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.15 Books of patterns and styles including, Paul Rouaix Les Styles, containing classical patterns, E. Braun’s Kunstmythologie containing classical figures, Paris Exposition 1900 catalogue containing views of the exhibition and Paris and volume 1 and 2 of Formenschatz der Renaissance 5 books and 1 lose page Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.16 Book of diagrams of machines and ironwork, containing hand drawings with dimensions, tear off pages, carbon copies and some lose pages 1913 Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.17 Correspondence, blue prints and drawings relating to enquiries regarding the supply of a projector by The London Electric Firm and alterations of Pulley centres on the Dynamo of machine No.662 from Mather & Platt Engineers 1924-1926 Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.18 Specifications for the building of a Wall of Death 3p.p 204mm x 330mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.19 Roller-Skating Machines specifications and accompanying letter from F.W. Dickinson, Electrical Engineer and Motor Car Dealer to Mr Martin 5 July 1911 4p.p 130mm x 205mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.20 Letter from H. A. Hands regarding his Airships machine and Patent No. 3458/10 26 February 1912 2p.p 200mm x 325mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.21 Provisional specification for improvement in apparatus for recreation and amusement, including diagrams of the invention, issued to Tom Charles Bland 9th May 1908 and letter from T. C. Bland W. J. Lake, inventors of spiral apparatus for amusements for the use of the patent 16 December 1909 205mm x 260mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.22 Rough sketches and specifications for Risi (see 178V10.35 for drawings) 1919-1920 3p.p Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.23 Page from Sir William Chamber’s Treatise (on Civil Architecture), showing the Tuscan Order for columns and arches 1860 1p. Orton and Spooner Collection 178H8.24 Design specifications for 16ft gallery wagon August 1912 Manuscript 1p. Orton and Spooner Collection 178I10.1 2 trade catalogues containing b&w photographs of products and designs for sale and 1 lose photograph of a wall type regulator with prices on reverse 64 photographs Orton and Spooner Collection 178I10.2 Photocopies of photographs and drawings of samples of Orton and Spooner Company carved work 17 items 212mm x 335mm Orton and Spooner collection 178I10.3 Promotional b&w postcards for cinematograph film containing scenes from The Life and Passion of Christ produced by Pathé Cinematograph Co Ltd, London c.1903 50 items including (The Annunciation [4], Flight into Egypt [5], Jesus and the doctors [5], At the wedding feast [5], Jesus and the woman of Samaria [5], The Lord’s supper [3], Jesus before Pilate [5], Scourging Jesus [3], Placing him in the tomb [5], The Resurrection [4], The Angel and the Holy Women [2], The Ascension [4]) 143mm x 90mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178I10.4 Promotional b&w film stills for cinematograph film containing scenes from The Life and Passion of Christ produced by Pathé Cinematograph Co Ltd, London c.1903 19 items including (The Annunciation [1], The strange star [2], The Adoration of the wise men [2], Flight into Egypt [1], The holy family [1], At the wedding feast [1], Jesus and the woman of Samaria [1], Entrance into Jerusalem [1], Jesus driving the sellers from the temple [1], The Lord’s supper [1], Scourging Jesus [2], Jesus sinking under the cross [1], Placing him in the tomb [1], The Resurrection [1], The Ascension [2]) 160mm x 115mm Orton and Spooner collection 178I10.5 Promotional film stills and postcard from various films produced by Pathé 8 items 175mm x 123mm Orton and Spooner collection 178M15.1 Blueprint of external connections for Type H, single phase motor with twin OB switch by Higgs Motors of Birmingham Z580 7 June 1926 180mm x 267mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.2 Blueprint of motor for fairground machine made by Higgs Bros of Birmingham for Messrs Davenport, Hackett & Co., Y270 30 October 1917 372mm x 268mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.3 Blueprint of arrangement of P9c Scenic Machine (O.P), shaft details, stamped by Davenport, Hackett & Co., and Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester X24852 7 June 1917 616mm x 440mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.4 Blueprint of arrangement of Pa Machines (O.P), for Baxendale & Co., Ltd., stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester X12860 with specifications 18 February 1915 631mm x 455mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.5 Blueprint of arrangement of D.C. Motor(T.P. 13), stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester X39,245.A 2 February 455mm x 300mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.6 Blueprint of arrangement of Machine P2c STD types (O.P & E.V), stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of ManchesterX23.109 print No.12580 6 April 1923 455mm x 300mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.7 Blueprint of arrangement of P3c Machine, type open end bracket, stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester Print No.13264 7 May 1925 455mm x 300mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.8 Blueprint of arrangement of P3c Machine, type open end bracket, stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester Print No.20549 9 November 1925 455mm x 300mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.9 Blueprint of arrangement of P3c Machine, types (O.P & E.V) stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester, X23110 Print No.6730 22 February 1922 455mm x 300mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.10 Blueprint of arrangement of P6c Machine, types (O.P) stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester, X23113 Print No.6058 23 February 1922 455mm x 300mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.11 Blueprint of arrangement of P8c Machine, stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester, X27936 5 April 1923 455mm x 300mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.12 Blueprint of arrangement of P8c Machine, stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester, X27936 (duplicate see 178M15.13) 28 July 1926 455mm x 300mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.13 Blueprint of arrangement of P8c Machine, stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester, X27936 (duplicate see 178M15.12) 5 April 1923 455mm x 300mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.14 Blueprint of arrangement of P7c Machine, stamped by Mather & Platt Ltd., of Manchester, X42430 11 September 1925 455mm x 300mm Orton and Spooner Collection 178M15.15 Set of fourteen Blueprints of different arrangements of motors and machines (T.P.