A correspondence file created by Richard Pawley (Engineer to the Hull and Barnsley Railway), acting in the capacity of Joint Engineer for the Hull Joint Dock [King George Dock].

It contains correspondence with various supplies of dock equipment including: Royce Limited (Machester), Spencer and Company Limited (Melksham, Wiltshire), Hawthorn Davy and Company Limited (Leeds), Craven Brothers (Manchester), Hydraulic Engineering Company Limited (Hull), Lancaster and Company (Bromley by Bow), Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Company Limited, the Hull Timber and Sawmill Company, Head Wrightson and Company Limited, Teesdale Iron Works (Thormaby on Tees), Callenders Cable Construction Company Limited (London), Henry Tooley and Son Limited (Birmingham), the 'Caster' Waterproofing Company (London), and the Hydraulic Engineering Company Limited (Chester).

It is connected with the supply of the following equipment: cranes, pumping machinery, buoys, coal hoists, lock gates, water cranes, cables, conveyors, graving dock blocks, weighbridges, capstans and fairleads.