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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference Number COMFORT/A/3/1
TitleAlex Comfort's childhood engineering scrapbook
Date1932-1936
DescriptionExercise book labelled "Engineering Scraps", containing postcards, newspaper cuttings, cigarette cards and pencil drawings, mostly of and about locomotive trains. There are also a few newspaper cuttings about aeroplanes, including the 1934 Robertson Trophy Air Race (also known as the London to Melbourne Air Race, and a single cigarette card of a butterfly. Inserted is a copy of <i>A short guide to Durham Cathedral</i>, published in 1936.
Extent1 volume with loose inserts
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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