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[THAMES TUNNEL COMPANY] Contemporary copy of the auditors'"Statement of Receipts & Disbursements for the Year ending 31st December 1853," 2 pages, folio with 2 integral blanks. With income for 1853 amounting to /p5116=9=0 listed in the left hand, and expenditure of /p3486=8=6 and loan repayments of /p1490-3-3 given in the right hand page, dated 9th February 1854, inscribed "Copies" in pencil on the reverse.
A pencil note in a blank area of the left hand page gives the "Tunnel Cost" as /p454,714-13-9 and the "Government Loan" as /p250,500. The main income of /p4117-16-1 is from "Tolls received at the Tunnel." It is also interesting to note the income of /p17-2-9 "received for Descriptive Books sold," although the sum "paid for Descriptive Books" is larger at /p24-10-0. Apart from the /p881-10-0 "expended in Machinery and Materials in maintaining the works of the Tunnel," and the /p987-5-8 spent on "Wages to Engine Workers, Toll Takers, Watchmen, & Police," the biggest cost is the /p566-12-2 "paid for Gas for Lighting the Tunnel and Premises."
With a Messrs. Remington, Stephenson, and Co. cheque signed "R. Bell," London 3 Sept. 1825, making "Two hundred and ten pounds" payable to "Sir E. Codrington (Rear Admiral) on account of Thames Tunnel Compy."; a small slip of paper, undated, containing a manuscript summary of tunnel construction costs; and a 4-page manuscript summary of I. K. Brunel's judgement in a legal case involving the patent specifications of Lord Dundonald and a Mr. Bush for compressed air, [1850's], Lord Dundonald's system having been designed specifically for use in the Thames tunnel "twenty years earlier." (4)
A pencil note in a blank area of the left hand page gives the "Tunnel Cost" as /p454,714-13-9 and the "Government Loan" as /p250,500. The main income of /p4117-16-1 is from "Tolls received at the Tunnel." It is also interesting to note the income of /p17-2-9 "received for Descriptive Books sold," although the sum "paid for Descriptive Books" is larger at /p24-10-0. Apart from the /p881-10-0 "expended in Machinery and Materials in maintaining the works of the Tunnel," and the /p987-5-8 spent on "Wages to Engine Workers, Toll Takers, Watchmen, & Police," the biggest cost is the /p566-12-2 "paid for Gas for Lighting the Tunnel and Premises."
With a Messrs. Remington, Stephenson, and Co. cheque signed "R. Bell," London 3 Sept. 1825, making "Two hundred and ten pounds" payable to "Sir E. Codrington (Rear Admiral) on account of Thames Tunnel Compy."; a small slip of paper, undated, containing a manuscript summary of tunnel construction costs; and a 4-page manuscript summary of I. K. Brunel's judgement in a legal case involving the patent specifications of Lord Dundonald and a Mr. Bush for compressed air, [1850's], Lord Dundonald's system having been designed specifically for use in the Thames tunnel "twenty years earlier." (4)