IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): LCC/CE/GEN
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CHIEF ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT: ORGANISATIONAL AND GENERAL
Date(s): 1889-1965
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.17 linear metres
Name of creator(s): LCC | London County Council x London County Council
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Chief Engineer was responsible for overseeing construction and maintenance of LCC buildings, bridges, roads and tunnels. He was also responsible for flood prevention measures, drainage and sewerage and other matters of public health.
The London County Council Chief Engineer and County Surveyors:
1889: J Gordon and C Dunscombe
1890 Sir Alexander Binnie
1901 Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice
1913 Sir George Humphreys
1930 Sir Peirson Frank
1946 Sir Joseph Rawlinson
1962 FM Fuller
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department, including reports, correspondence, press cuttings, committee papers, maintenance arrangements, sail plan, rigging plan, site and dock plans, artist's perspective drawings and numbered drawings relating to the installation of the Cutty Sark at dry dock in Greenwich, 1952-1958; pamphlet "Particulars of machinery at L.C.C installations", 1905; pamphlet "Your job of work in the Chief Engineer's Dept", 1953 (revised 1955); and certificates of class and machinery of the Council's ships, ferry boats and sludge vessels, 1889-1965.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
LCC/CE/GEN/01 and 04: Cutty Sark; LCC/CE/GEN/02: Pamphlets; LCC/CE/GEN/03: Certificates.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: City of London
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Acquired with the records of its parent body, the London County Council.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
For London County Council Chief Engineer's Department see LCC/CE/DO; LCC/CE/GEN; LCC/CE/MD; LCC/CE/MD; LCC/CE/PH; LCC/CE/RB and LCC/CE/WAR.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009