Item HAMILTON, ISM 14/9/1 - Papers, 1922-1930, relating to proposals to construct a canal between the River Forth and the River Clyde

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HAMILTON, ISM 14/9/1

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Papers, 1922-1930, relating to proposals to construct a canal between the River Forth and the River Clyde

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  • 1922 May - 1930 Jul 1 (Creation)

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Pamphlets, articles and correspondence relating to proposals for a canal scheme between the Rivers Forth and Clyde, Scotland, including typescript of 'The Forth-Clyde Canal', article by Hamilton for The Star, Dec 1922; typescript extract relating to the canal from a speech by Hamilton to the Glasgow and Lanarkshire Association of London, 3 Feb 1923; 'Iron, steel and kindred industries and the Mid-Scotland canal', reprint of paper by 'a Glasgow engineer' read at a meeting of the West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute, 14 Nov 1923; 'The Mid-Scotland canal-what it means to the country', reprint of transcript of radio broadcast by Hamilton to Glasgow and Aberdeen, 21 Dec 1923 and 'Symposium on the feasability and advantages of a Forth and Clyde canal', reprint of article by Dr John Bruce Murray and Professors George Moncur, J W Gregory and William Robert Scott, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1926. 1 file

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