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Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company Ltd
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Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1929-09-04 - 1929-10-05
TCM/10/13
SHIPS' LOGBOOKS (DURING REPAIRS, DIVERSIONS AND RENEWALS). Cadiz - Tenerife (1908), Las Palmas - Port Gabras (1908); Mousehole - Harbour Grace; Mousehole - Fayal, TELCONIA, 4 September - 5 October 1929
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1929-12-04 - 1930-01-21
TCM/10/14
SHIPS' LOGBOOKS (DURING REPAIRS, DIVERSIONS AND RENEWALS). Sennen Cove - Valentia (No1 1918, No2 1920); Sennen Cove - Bay Roberts (1881, 1882); Brest - Casablanca (1910,1916); Lorient - Ile de Graix (1908), TELCONIA, 4 december 1929 - 21 January 1930
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintenance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1853-06-30 - 1853-06-30
TCM/21/3
RECORDS OF THE GUTTA PERCHA COMPANY. LEGAL DOCUMENTS, Deed of dissolution of partnership The Gutta Percha Company " as far as relates to Lockington St, Lawrence Burm of Walbrook", 30th June 1853
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintenance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1957-08-02 - 1959-09-14
TCM/26/12/2
PUBLICITY - OTHER PUBLICITY MATERIAL - US Hawaiian Cable, press releases, photographs, correspondence and newspaper cuttings, Vol 2, 2 August 1957-14 Sep1959
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintenance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1958-05-30 - 1958-05-30
TCM/26/10
PUBLICITY - OTHER CELEBRATIONARY OCCASIONS - Souvenir programme, 'Visit of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Conference to the factories of Submarine Cables Ltd at Greenwich and Erith', 30 May 1958
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1930-08-29 - 1930-11-25
TCM/10/16
SHIPS' LOGBOOKS (DURING REPAIRS, DIVERSIONS AND RENEWALS). La Panne - Lisbon; Curacao - La Guaira; Curacao - Aruba - Maracaibo - Puerto Clumbia cable laying, TELCONIA, 29 August - 25 November 1930
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintenance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1865-08-05 - 1869-08-07
TCM/26/14
PUBLICITY - PRESS CUTTINGS - The Illustrated London News and L'Illustration Journal Universal, articles and illustrations on cables and cable laying, 5 Aug 1865-7 August 1869
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1932-09-22 - 1932-12-04
TCM/10/17
SHIPS' LOGBOOKS (DURING REPAIRS, DIVERSIONS AND RENEWALS). London - Cadiz - Canary Islands - Cueta - Gibraltar - Almeira - Melilla - London, TELCONIA, 22 September - 4 December 1932
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintenance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1955-10-06 - 1955-10-24
TCM/6/59
OTHER CONTRACTS. Siemens Brothers and Company Ltd, Supervision and maintenence of ship wireless and equipment, 6 October 1955; Supply of radio officers to British ships, 24 October 1955
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintenance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1884-12-29 - 1885-03-17
TCM/6/61
OTHER CONTRACTS. Great Western Railway Company, Browning and Wesley, W H Smith and Son, Great Western Hotel Company, John Harsant Aldrich. Electrical lighting at PAddington, 29 December 1884 - 17 March 1885
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintenance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1902-11-08 - 1913-10-09
TCM/21/52
PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF H W JEWESBURY AND CO. FROM EMPLOYEES OF H W JEWESBURY AND CO. J A Fletcher, 8th November 1902 - 9th October 1913
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintenance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1905-08-01 - 1914-08-01
TCM/21/56
PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF H W JEWESBURY AND CO. OTHER CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS. Rubber statistics issued by H W Jewesbury and Co, 1st August 1905 - 1st August 1914
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1957-11-19 - 1958-02-27
TCM/17/13
PAPERS RELATING TO THE CS OCEAN LAYER (EX EMPIRE FROME). Deck logbooks: Durban - Mauritius, 19 November 1957 - 27 Feb 1958.
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1958-01-09 - 1958-01-29
TCM/17/15
PAPERS RELATING TO THE CS OCEAN LAYER (EX EMPIRE FROME). Deck logbooks: Malta - Zante shore end, 9 - 29 January 1958.
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1956-12-22 - 1955-14-01
TCM/17/20
PAPERS RELATING TO THE CS OCEAN LAYER (EX EMPIRE FROME). Engine room logbooks: Greenwich - South America, 22 Dec 1955 - 1 April 1956.
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1953-11-04 - 1954-12-29
TCM/17/1
PAPERS RELATING TO THE CS OCEAN LAYER (EX EMPIRE FROME). Purchase and conversion to a cable ship: Bill of Sale and transcript from register, 4 November 1953 - 29 Dec 1954.
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1865 - 1866-09-08
TCM/16/6
PAPERS RELATING TO THE SS GREAT EASTERN AND THE FIRST ATLANTIC CABLES. Copies of the first messages senr through the 1865/6 Atlantic Cables, 1865 - 8 September 1866.
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1956-07-22 - 1956-10-30
TCM/17/8
PAPERS RELATING TO THE CS OCEAN LAYER (EX EMPIRE FROME). Ship's Logbook: Power cable at Vancouver renewal at Bamfield and trials off the Azores, 22 July - 30 Oct 1956.
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1921-03-24 - 1921-07-23
TCM/8/182
CABLE ENGINEERS' LOGBOOKS. Suez - Aden (No 3 1883); Port Sudan (No1 1870); Suez - Port Sudan - Perim (No2 1890); Aden (No5 1902); Port Sudan - Perim (No2 1890), STEPHAN, 24 March - 23 July 1921
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1922-10-09 - 1923-01-13
TCM/8/184
CABLE ENGINEERS' LOGBOOKS. Aden - Seychelles; Zanzibar - Seychelles - Mauritius (1893), Suez - Port Sudan (1890, 1920), STEPHAN, 9 October 1922 - 13 January 1923
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintenance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1892-03-03 - 1894
TCM/21/18
RECORDS OF THE GUTTA PERCHA COMPANY. CORRESPONDENCE. Douglas Durnford of Durnford and Company Ltd and WC Johnson, re the Borneo gutta percha extraction syndicate for the "Rigole" process for the extraction of gutta percha, 3rd March 1892 - 1894
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1931 - 1941
TCM/18/10
SHIPS' STATISTICS. OTHER VESSELS. Statistics of cable ships of the world, containing information on specifications, ownership, age, expeditions and including photographs, press cuttings and reprints of articles. Volume 1, A-L. ca.1931-41
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintenance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1859-11-12 - 1859-11-14
TCM/21/14
RECORDS OF THE GUTTA PERCHA COMPANY. CORRESPONDENCE. Professor DE Hughes and J Chatterton of the Gutta Percha Company re semi-fluid cable, 12 - 14 November 1859
Telegraph
Construction
And Maintainance Company Limited (Manuscript)
1879-04-07 - 1879-12-03
TCM/9/9
ROUGH DRAFTS OF CABLE ENGINEERS' LOGBOOKS. South Africa and Aden, cable laying (1st, 2nd, 3rd and part of 4th sections), KANGAROO, SEINE, CALABRIA, 7 April - 3 December 1879
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