Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1809 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
2 production units.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Mark Noble, of Battersea, was a pump and fire engine manufacturer and a supplier to the Ordnance Board.
Repository
Archival history
GB 0074 CLC/484 1809 Collection 2 production units. Noble , Mark , fl 1809 , pump and fire engine manufacturer
Mark Noble, of Battersea, was a pump and fire engine manufacturer and a supplier to the Ordnance Board.
Presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by D.T. Rodger in 1999. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
Records of Mark Noble, pump and fire engine manufacturer, comprising a diary and the donor's transcript and notes. The diary is unsigned, but the donor has identified the author from a patent mentioned in the text and from records at The National Archives relating to the activities described. The entries are mostly accounts of travel and meetings in London, Kent and Berkshire to arrange finance, materials and trials of a pump, with little technical or personal content.
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
English
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
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.
Records prepared May to September 2011. Information sources Documents Primary documents Personal papers Water pumps Machines Diaries Transport Vehicles Emergency vehicles Fire engines Archives Personal archives Nonfiction Prose Literary forms and genres Literature Noble , Mark , fl 1809 , pump and fire engine manufacturer
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by D.T. Rodger in 1999. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
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Scope and content
Records of Mark Noble, pump and fire engine manufacturer, comprising a diary and the donor's transcript and notes. The diary is unsigned, but the donor has identified the author from a patent mentioned in the text and from records at The National Archives relating to the activities described. The entries are mostly accounts of travel and meetings in London, Kent and Berkshire to arrange finance, materials and trials of a pump, with little technical or personal content.
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Accruals
System of arrangement
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
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Conditions governing access
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
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English
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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.
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English