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1; 660090 - The application of town's gas for the running of high-speed internal-combustion engines : paper read before the Institution of Mining Engineers, 1933. - 1933
2; 254221 - The Birmingham Electrical Bulletin. A quarterly periodical. Numbers 1 - 4, November 1913 - August 1914. All published. 1913-14. - 1914
2; 255460 - Electrics. A monthly paper for power users. Birmingham edition. Volume 9, No. 9 - Volume 10, No. 8. September 1913 - August 1914. All published. - 1914
2; 259483 - Proceedings of the 19th Annual Convention of the Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association, Birmingham 1914. Illus. Dgms. 1914. Electrical Association (Incorporated Municipal), Birmingham Convention, 1914. - 1914
2; 303151 - Electricity Supply Industry, District Industrial Council. No. 5, West Midlands Area : counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire : annual report ...
2; 340417 - Electricity Supply Industry. District Industrial Council (No. 5) West Midland Area. Conditions of service, working conditions, agreements and rates of wages as at April 1927. 22pp. 1927. Working Classes. - 1927
2; 406492 - Annual report. 1931-2. District Joint Board of Employers and Members of Staff, (West Midlands Area) (Electricity Supply Industry). - 1932
2; 445138 - Conditions of service, working conditions, agreements and rates of wages as at September 1935. 20pp. 1935. District Industrial Council (No. 5) West Midlands Area, Electricity Supply. - 1935
11; 234928 - Ordnance map of Birmingham and district, coloured to show the supply area of the Birmingham Gas Company. 1862. Maps. - 1862
11; 259801 - Gas : Birmingham and District Gas Consumers Bill. House of Lords. Proceedings 80pp. 1864. Parliamentary Reports and Papers. - 1864
11; 259802 - Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Bill. House of Lords. Proceedings. 56pp. 1864. Parliamentary Reports and Papers. - 1864
11; 662928 - Letter to a Member of Parliament from William Murdock, in vindication of his character and claims (to the invention of gas lighting); in reply to a publication by the Committee for conducting through Parliament a Bill for incorporating a Gas-Light & Coke Company. Reprint, with prefatory note by R.B. Prosser. 15pp. 1892. MURDOCK (WILLIAM). - 1892
12; 233604 - City of Birmingham Gas Department Magazine. Monthly. Containing biographical sketches and portraits. Volume 1 etc. January 1912 etc. - 1912
12; 324520 - City of Birmingham Gas Department. Fifty years of municipal ownership 1875-1925. Account of the part played by Joseph Chamberlain in the administration of the Gas Committee. With an invitation card for the Commemoration of the Jubilee : the unveiling of a bust of Joseph Chamberlain by Arthur Neville Chamberlain. Port. Illus. 15pp. 1925. Gas. - 1925
12; 415186 - Note book of Joseph Chamberlain relating to the purchase and working of the Birmingham Gas Undertaking, 1870 – 1879. Manuscript. 1933 NOTE - Photostat reproduction made at the Birmigngham Reference Library from the original in the possession of the Birmingham Gas Department. CHAMBERLAIN (Rt. Hon. JOSEPH) M.P.. - 1870-1879
12; 584926 - Gas undertaking : the development of gas in the public service as exemplified by the world's largest municipal gas undertaking. - 1947
12; 610835 - Souvenir menu of the dinner given on the occasion of the transfer to nationalised industry, 25th April, 1949. - 1949
12; 661154 - [Report on gas purification / by Charles Hunt, after a visit to the Phoenix Gas Company, Vauxhall, presented to Birmingham Corporation, 1878]. - 1878
12; 662978 - [Miscellaneous reports to the Gas Department].
12; 663386 - [A history and description of the work of the department]. - 1923
13; 5675 - Report of the West Midlands Gas Consultative Council and summary of report of the West Midlands Gas Board. - 1971-
13; 5676 - Report of the West Midlands Gas Consumers' Council.
13; 625144 - Report and statement of accounts.
13; 663385 - Central & research laboratories Birmingham / opening by Sir Harold Hartley, 1950. - 1950
13; 755128 - Report on shortages of gas supplies in the West Midlands during the winter of 1965/66 / by Sir R. Wynne-Edwards. - 1966
21; 130490 - Report of the Gas Committee to be presented to a special meeting of the Council, 31st October 1882 on Electric Lighting. (Borough of Birmingham) 17pp. 1882 NOTE :- Bound with 130491 overleaf. - 1882
21; 130491 - Report of the Town Clerk to the Gas Committee on the Electric Lighting Act, 1882. (Borough of Birmingham) 24pp. 1882. NOTE :- bound with 130490 - 1882
21; 660017 - Electric supply department report and abstract of accounts, 1908-9. - 1909
21; 662703 - Provisional order authorising the South Staffordshire Electric Lighting Company, Limited, to erect and maintain electric lines and works and to supply electricity within the Urban Sanitary District of Balsall Heath in the county of Worcester. - 1883
22; 294533 - Statistics ...
23; 614237 - Report and statement of accounts.
231; 981949 - In your interest : the report of the Electricity Consultative Council for the Midlands Area ...
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