Beschreibung:

Photographic archive of various engineering projects undertaken by Brims & Co. Ltd: 'NW Quay (Riverside Quay), Tyne Dock' and 'Sutherland Quay, Tyne Dock', 2 volumes, 1939-42; 'London-Yorkshire Motorway, River Trent Bridges', 2 volumes, 1963-4; 'Darlington By-Pass, Bridges', 2 volumes, 1963-4, 'NW Quay, Tyne Dock' and 'Riverside Quay, Tyne Dock' respectively containing 47 and 36 gelatin silver prints (20 x 25.5 cm; image size 15.5 x 21 cm), dated in the negative, blind- and wet stamps of W. H. Elliott of North Shields, each set loose in photographer's original brown cloth-backed portfolio with pencilled titles to front boards and mild wear to extremities, oblong 4to and 4to; 'London-Yorkshire Motorway, River Trent Bridges' and 'Darling By-Pass Bridges' containing in total approximately 380 gelatin silver prints, 6 colour photographs and 2 printed plans, including some 120 in large format (approximately 21 x 16 cm) of which 3 loosely inserted, 250 in small format (12 x 9 cm), and a few of intermediate size, all corner-mounted rectos and versos to black light card leaves, wet stamps and negative numbers of G. Hewson or W. E. Middleton and Sons (both of Nottingham) on versos, neat manuscript captions throughout in white ink, each work ring-bound in 2 snakeskin-effect black cloth albums (4 in total), a few leaves loose and 4 captioned prints lacking in Trent Bridges volume 2, oblong folio Well-preserved visual record of the expansion of the Tyne Dock during the Second World War by Newcastle engineering firm Brims & Co. Ltd, and of their involvement in the construction of the M1 and upgrading of the A1 at Darlington twenty years later. The four albums relating to these last two projects appear to have been compiled as the company's official record of proceedings. Brims & Co. Ltd was wound up in 1993 but recommenced trading in 2006 as Brims Construction Limited, now based in Sunderland. (4)