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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1357 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Drawings produced by the Darlington Forge works of the English Steel Corporation

Covering Dates: c.1900-1963

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Darlington Forge works of the English Steel Corporation (Ref: D/X 1357)Register of drawings (Ref: D/X 1357/1)

List of drawings produced by the Darlington Forge works of the English Steel Corporation, drawings DFR/1-352, 8 March 1949 - 23 July 1963 Gives date, department, description and detail of drawing, draughtsman and remarks; with alphabetical index to types of drawing
(1 volume, leather-bound)

Microfilms of drawings in the Engineers' Drawing Office of Darlington Forge (Ref: M82/1-23)

on closure 1968


number not used
(1 microfilm)


Crane, detail drawings
(1 microfilm)


Electric overhead travelling crane and jib crane, arrangement and detail drawings
(1 microfilm)


Crane, arrangement and detail drawings (including 200 ton forge crane), c.1917
(1 microfilm)


Crane, arrangement and detail drawings (including 200 ton forge crane), c.1917
(1 microfilm)


Miscellaneous presses, detail drawings; buildings north of River Skerne, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Machine tools, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Machine tools, drawings; foundry and fettling shop extensions, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Melting shop and foundry, miscellaneous plant and equipment, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Furnace and electrical equipment, including motors, detail drawings
(1 microfilm)


Roll treatment and tackle equipment, drawings; foundry buildings, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Forging manipulators and forging press, drawings; Siemens furnaces, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Siemens furnaces (oil firing), drawings; compo house and fettling shop plant, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Foundry equipment, drawings; locomotives and locomotive cranes, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Machine shop buildings, drawings; 1888 office buildings, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Works plans, original land purchases and development; rail-tracks and wagons, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Miscellaneous forging hammers (including 'Tiny Tim', specialist forge welding hammers, 1,000 ton Fielding and Platt straightening press and 750 ton Davy press), drawings
(1 microfilm)


2,500 ton Davy Brothers forging press (no.3) and 1,100 ton upsetting press, drawings; special forging tools, lifting gear and processes, drawings
(1 microfilm)


Working drawings (DFR series) and scheme drawings (DFS series), commencing 1950 Most of these drawings relate to layouts, buildings and plant for the development of the Darlington Forge works following its re-opening by the English Steel Corporation in 1936
(1 microfilm)


Working drawings (W series), registered in the Sheffield office of the English Steel Corporation, c.1936 - 1950 Most of these drawings relate to layouts, buildings and plant for the development of the Darlington Forge works following its re-opening by the English Steel Corporation in 1936
(1 microfilm)


Working drawings (W series), registered in the Sheffield office of the English Steel Corporation, c.1936 - 1950 Most of these drawings relate to layouts, buildings and plant for the development of the Darlington Forge works following its re-opening by the English Steel Corporation in 1936
(1 microfilm)


Plant register
(1 microfilm)


Engineering drawings formerly in the Fuel Department, c.1900 - 1960s This was originally reel no. 3 and it contains plans , nos. 01525 and 01526, of the Heavy Forge and Machine Shop Departments of the Grimesthorpe Works in Sheffield, Yorkshire
(1 microfilm)