Design Records

WOLV/3

1831 - 1986

This series contains records appear to originate from the Drawing Office at Wolverton Works. The sub fonds comprises mostly of drawings, these show components and parts of vehicles including and equipment, including crockery, furniture, as well as sometimes including drawings of buildings, plans. In some cases the Drawing Office produced reproductions of letters, circulars, schedules and charts. The archive also includes other important records used for design purposes, for example photograph albums (WOLV 3/7) and order for new stock/specification files (WOLV 3/9). The sub fonds contains almost a full set of drawing registers from 1886 until the 1980’s, these record drawings produced at Wolverton including drawings that have not been preserved. The sub series also contains records that describe drawing procedure, for example Drawing Office project files (1938-1986) (WOLV 3/11) including files that describe the transfer of drawings to other locations. Information in drawings can be cross referenced with other records in the archive, for example order for new stock/ specification files (WOLV 3/9) incorporate drawing numbers and drawing numbers are frequently referenced in correspondence (WOLV1/2) WOLV 3/1 Early Locomotive Drawings (1831-1876) WOLV 3/2 Main series drawings (1870’s-1980’s) WOLV 3/3 Diagram Books (1884-1978) WOLV 3/4 Drawing Registers (1886-1981) WOLV 3/5 Photographic Records (1905-1939) WOLV 3/6 Schedules (1920-1953) WOLV 3/7 Photograph Albums (1910’s-1970’s) WOLV 3/8 Lists and notes (1910’s-1970’s) WOLV 3/9 Order for New Stock Files (1920’s-1970’s) WOLV 3/10 Drawing Office Royal Train Journey Records (1926-1982) WOLV 3/11 Drawing Office Project Files (1938-1986) WOLV 3/12 Staff Records (1939-1979) WOLV 3/13 Specifications (1931-1981) WOLV 3/14 Correspondence (1943-1968) WOLV 3/15 Student Reports (1981-1984) A full listing for WOLV/3/1 and WOLV/3/2 can be found on the National Railway Museum website under 'Drawing Lists' at https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/research-and-archive/further-resources/catalogues. A full listing of the other WOLV/3 series can be found on the National Railway Museum website on the same page as above under 'Archive Lists'.

87 rolls, 187 standard sized archive boxes, seven large archive boxes and one wooden box containing glass slides

National Railway Museum, York

The exact original order of the series has been difficult to ascertain. The archive has therefore been arranged into 15 series shown in the list below, these reflect either the activities to which the records relate or the nature of the record. Drawings follow have a distinct system of arrangement which is described in detail in the early locomotive and main series drawing descriptions under ‘system of arrangement’.