| Description | Includes:
Correspondence between English Electric and Buckingham Palace on preparations for the visit including press arrangements, a pre-visit tour of the works, plan showing the route (by foot and car), draft of tour programme, draft text for short works history, list of photos of The Queen that can be used, arrangements for signing visitors book, Buckingham Palace thanking company chairman Lord Nelson and others for 'an outstandingly successful visit' and thanking the company apprentices for the miniature tool kit presented by them to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh (February 1967 - May 1967);
Internal English Electric letters and memos relating to the visit including about display material for the visit showing products not covered by the Power Generation Group, transporter and shell of a reactor servicing machine being moved to Rugby (from English Electric's Whetstone site) for the visit and the time needed for assembly and testing of the equipment, draft of historical review, commentary and programme, length of time allocated to people speaking to the Queen and need for word for word description of what people intend to say to her, briefings, press preview, final dress rehearsal, letter from Lord Nelson thanking various people at the site for a successful day, draft programme for visit (including Queen's visit to Rugby school) (February 1967 - May 1967);
Newspaper cuttings and articles on the visit including Birmingham Post (13 May 1967), photocopy of pages from 'English Electric And Its People (June 1967, vol. 22) on the visit, newsletter from English Electric Turbine Divisions (Rugby and Whetstone) (vol. 5, issue 3, 1967) including article on visit written by visit co-ordinator Ken Leeming;
Booklet 'Visit of Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh to the English Electric Company Rugby Works on Friday 12th May 1967' with short history, commentary on Rugby works, composition of parties, the tour, layout drawing of Rugby works;
Brochure 'Royal Visit English Electric Rugby 12th May 1967' with photos, list of people presented to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh;
Photographs of the visit including exhibition boards and parts displayed during the visit such as full size blade for Kaplan runner used on Kainji Hydro electric scheme, diesel power unit for a locomotive, high and low pressure cylinders for 600 MW steam turbine for Longannet, Scotland, unitised actuator. Also tool set in wooden case and cubicone mounted on plinth presented to the Queen by apprentices). |