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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)LAdd/6104
TitleLetter from J. Joseph Bramah (engineer), Grosvenor Works, Pimlico [London] to Mr Jones, Steel Works, Thames Bank [London], 6 Sep
Extent1 item
Date1836
DescriptionLetter of complaint about Jones' failure to deliver work on time, resulting in delays to the extension contract of the London and Birmingham Railway: 'The daily and almost hourly communications I receive from Messrs Cubitt and the Engineer ...is [sic] so annoying that I hardly know what to do...I believe in your assurances but the penalties I am suffering through your failing to so deliver the work in time becomes daily so serious that I cannot help calling upon you again for renewed exertion'
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