NRS-15889 | Copies of Memos from the Locomotive Pattern Shop to the Locomotive Works Manager, Eveleigh

The series consists of a single volume of presscopy and carbon copies of handwritten and typed memoranda sent from the Locomotives Pattern Shop to the Locomotive Works Manager, Eveleigh Workshops.The memoranda deal with many aspects of the daily running of the Locomotives Pattern Shop, including productivity, requirements for plant, materials, tools, equipment and overtime. Various personnel matters such as staff accident reports and holiday and overtime are also present..There is a detailed alphabetical subject index at the beginning of the volume which refers to the page number on which the memorandum can be located. Recurrent subheadings in the index include - employee's name, jobs, reports, administrative matters and holidays.Custody History From 1955 until 2000 the State Rail Authority of New South Wales maintained an 'in house archives' consisting of the archival records of Authority, its predecessor agencies and the private railway companies taken over by the government. The date ranges of the records were from 1849 until 2000. When the decision was made to close the 'State Rail Archives' the parts of the collection that were required as State Archives were transferred to the State Records Authority of NSW. Those record series were incorporated into the State Records series system of archives control and were re-numbered. This series was formerly part of the State Rail Archives collection where it was identified as series R99. It may have been reviewed in the State Rail Archives as series R99 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.