Tyburn Project: production of scrub typhus vaccine, Second World War

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0210 GC/12
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Tyburn Project: production of scrub typhus vaccine, Second World War
Date(s)	: 1945
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: van den Ende, Marinus, 1912-1957 Bargmann, Helène E., 1897-1987

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

During the Second World War the Wellcome Foundation laboratories at Frant, East Sussex, were engaged in work for the Ministry of Supply, producing scrub typhus vaccine for the armed forces. The project was given the wartime codename of 'Tyburn' after Tyburn Farm, the farm at the Wellcome Veterinary Research Station there. The project was organised by the bacteriologist Marinus van den Ende (1912-1957), serving with the RAMC: his obituary in the Lancet states that "his greatest achievement in England was the organisation of the laboratory at Frant for the large-scale production of scrub typhus vaccine, exacting and dangerous work which he carried out with great speed and precision"

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

"Report of Special Operational Store Tyburn, Jan-Nov 1945", by Marinus van den Ende (1912-1957), bacteriologist; and notes and photographs by Dr Helène E. Bargmann, PhD, FRZS, ATS (1897-1987), biologist.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

as above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

open The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner

Finding aids:

Wellcome catalogue online

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The report by Professor van den Ende was presented by Mr Matthews to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1959, and transferred to the CMAC in 1980. The papers and photographs by Dr. Bargmann were presented to the Library by her nephew, John M Bargmann, in September 1998.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Barbara Ball.

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:
January 2009