- 1Papers of John Melling, Locomotive Superintendent (MEL)
1837 - 30 January 1885, fonds - 2Letters patent, Great Britain Patentee: John Melling of Liverpool, UK. Intervention: certain improvements in locomotive steam engines also applicable to stationary engines [no technical details] (MEL/1)
26 July 1837, item - 3List of the number ‘number and names of locomotive engines on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway from the commencement up until the present time January 1837’ [lists diameters of cylinders and length of stroke] (MEL/2)
1837, item - 4List of locomotive engines on the Grand Junction Railway from the commencement up to April 10 1839’ [lists engines with old eccentric gearing and with Mellings Patent Improvements] list of ‘locomotive engines on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway from the commencement to the present time 10th April 1839’ (MEL/3)
10 April 1839, item - 5Note of number of engines built with the patent gearing and amount received (MEL/4)
6 December 1838, item - 6Business card for T Mellings and son, Engineers, Rainhill Iron Works, Railway Station, Rainhill (MEL/5)
c 1855, item - 7Chart railway time and distance table, railway gradients (MEL/6)
c 1855, item - 8Letter Edward Woods, 6B Victoria Street, Westminster to Thomas Melling Esq, 39 Scarisbrick, New Raod, Southport asking when the ‘Old Rocket’ was sold and to whom - possibly 1833 to the Jane Colliery. He comments on changes made to Rocket after the Rainhill Trials by Melling’s father (MEL/7)
30 January 1885, item
