Manchester Ship Canal Co

Reports, tables of statistics, estimates and expenses for the MSC Bill session 1883: report of the Provisional Committee for the promotion of a Ship Canal to Manchester to the subscribers to the Guarantee Fund, 26 September 1882, with the report of Mr E Leader Williams and the observations of Mr James Abernethy; list of names and addresses of subscribers to the Guarantee Fund, 1882; copies of resolutions passed by public bodies in favour of the Ship Canal scheme, 17 July 1882-3 January 1883; tidal observations in the estuary of the River Mersey, session 1883; estimate of expense, session 1883; detailed draft of estimated costs of Ship Canal works, 4 June 1883; table of depths of sills below level of old dock sill, Liverpool Docks, session 1883; Logbook referred to in evidence of Captain Pearson, with details of soundings: taken in the Mersey Estuary 11 April 1883, session 1883; report on railway bridges crossing the Mersey and Irwell rivers between Old Trafford bridge and Garston, by Grundy Kershaw & Co., solicitors to the Provisional Committee, 31 August 1882; letter to the Mersey Conservancy Commissioners, by Daniel Adamson, Chairman of the Provisional Committee; railway rates from principal ports to inland towns, and to and from Manchester and principal ports, on a few staple articles, 1883; Mersey Dock and Harbour Board list of cranes etc on the dock quays at Liverpool and Birkenhead, 1883 (see MSC/12)