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RefNoACS/1/2/3/221
AltRefNo293
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to W. H. Pilmour [Esquire]
CreatorSwinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863-1930); British electrical engineer
Date28 March 1928
DescriptionInforms he met Colonel Sir Henry [George] Lyons and asked him what was happening. Lyons said that the matter was entirely out of his hands for the present, and in the hands of the Board of Works, who were making a new estimate with their original plan of the building long enough to contain the whole boat. Comments that Lyons appeared to be bored with the subject. States it is possible to write to the Board of Works but that the best course would be to wait for Sir Charles Parsons to return and then tell Lyons that Parsons had been asking what had been done.
Extent1p
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionCarbon
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8285Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer1863 - 1930
NA6939Lyons; Sir; Henry George (1864 - 1944); geologist and museum director1864 - 1944
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