Civil Engineering, Department of

Description

BOX 1


1. Research Monographs in Tropical Public Health Engineering [latest issue only kept, for cumulative list of publications printed in inside back cover].


2. Courses & Conferences. Includes leaflet re Civil Engineering Law and Contract Procedure, course, 2003


3. Survey of Current Research Projects 1969, 1977, 1984, 1986, 1990.


4. Prospectuses.

NB see Department of Engineering for earlier prospectuses


5. E. W. Bennett, Concrete Research - A Half-Century at Leeds, c. 1982, typescript, 14 pp. plus references.


6. Envelope containing correspondence with Emeritus Professor R. H. Evans, October - December 1978, April, September 1979, May 1987 and February 1988 plus Notes taken of a conversation with Professor Evans, 27 June 1979.


7. R. J. Barfoot, A bevy of engineers, Concrete, December 1975 [about women students in the Civil Engineering Dept.].


8. Annual Report - departmental submissions, 1966/67 - 1973/74.


9. 2nd Year Architectural Engineering Project: demountable canopy,Woodhouse Moor, Oct. 1986.


10. Schools’ Spaghetti Bridge Competition, February 1988.


11. Fire in Civil Engineering Dept. December 1987, photocopies of newscuttings.


12. Origins of the George Earle Laboratory - notes of phone call to Prof. Evans by Janis Hickey, 11.12. 1990.


13. Civil Engineering Building: Diagrammatic Layout September 1960.


14. Folder containing misc. items re. departmental Reunion Dinner, 26th October 1990: Alumni News no. 1, Oct. 1990; invitation; menu and guest list; Graduate Directory 1990; chronological notes on the history of the engineering departments and the University [possibly compiled in connection with an exhibition at the Reunion].


15. Departmental Christmas cards, 1998 and 1999, showing commemorative windows commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the Department.


16. University of Leeds Department of Civil Engineering, Submission to the Joint Board of Moderators (1987).


BOX 2 Papers of Terence Eldon Crowley, B.Sc. 1937


1. Notebooks: Faculty of Technology General Engineering Notes, November 1933; Geology I, 1936-37; Geology (II), n.d.


2. Oliver Byrne, The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners (London: William Pickering, 1947).


3. Neil Upton, An Illustrated History of Civil Engineering, (London: Heinemann, 1975).


4. Folder containing records of local authority (and other) bonus/incentive schemes for building repairs and maintenance work, 1948-53, 1965.


5. Envelope containing paper on 'Scraper Outputs on Opencast Coal Production' submitted to the Institution of Civil Engineers in fulfilment of Section C of Assoc. Membership, 1945; papers, drawings, etc. relating to the construction of the Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley (where Crowley took up his first appointment, as assistant engineer, Ministry of Works), c.1945; etc.


BOX 3 Papers of Terence Eldon Crowley, B.Sc. 1937 continued


1. Envelope containing site manuals for prefabricated houses incl. Ministry of Works Site Manuals: No. 1 The Airey House, 1946, No. 2 The Woolaway House, n.d., No. 3 The Weir "Quality" House (Mark I), n.d., No. 4 The Spooner House Mark VII, n. d.; Ministry of Works Interim Report on the Organisation and Methods Employed in Investigating Construction of Houses by Non-Traditional Systems, 1946; Ministry of Health Airey Rural House Handbook of Erection Instructions, January 1947; W. Woolaway & Sons, The Oakland Park Estate, [Barnstaple] Devonshire, n.d. (probably late 1930s).


2. Local authority maintenance work schedule comparison index, n.d.


3. Envelope titled 'Stone Surveys': contains Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Building Research Board Survey of Buildings in Stone in Scotland Summary report 1950; and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Building Research Station Survey of Building in Sandstone in Scotland (National Building Studies Special Report No. 20), 1953.


4. Envelope containing notes and report on Building Production in Holland, c.1949; Ministry of Works, The Application of Method Study to the Building and Civil Engineering Industry, October 1946; and other papers on application of time studies to the construction industry, c1945-49.


5. 'Dossier' containing Ministry of Works papers and publications re. costing of building operations, payment by results, incentive schemes, etc., c1944-54.


Box 5


1. Folder of documents relating to the stained glass window commissioned from Hannah Stained Glass, commemorating the School's 50th anniversairy. Includes newscuttings, photographs, cards, planning papers and papers relating to the unveiling, 1997-2002.

Biography or history

Until 1946 there was a single department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, housed in the Baines Wing. Then two separate departments were established, which moved into new buildings on Woodhouse Lane in the early 1960s. The Architects of the 1886 building were Alfred Waterhouse and Paul Waterhouse. The Architects for the new buildings were Lanchester and Lodge.

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