IRS / Hunslet Engine Co.
Joint Publications

On the 60th anniversary of our formation, the IRS is pleased to announce the signature of a Joint Venture Agreement with the Hunslet Engine Co that will see items from the archives of Hunslet’s reproduced for sale to the public. The first two titles are from Kerr Stuart’s of Stoke on Trent who were purchased by Hunslet’s in 1930. The first item is a pictorial Locomotive Sales Catalogue, whilst Fifteen Shillings Change is a description of Kerr Stuart’s range of diesel locomotives. Using the extensive skills of the publishing arm of the IRS we have been able to keep production costs to a minimum thus allowing adequate funds to be able to reproduce the books to the highest possible standard using materials as closely matched as possible to the original. If the venture proves profitable then by way of a royalty payment the Society will make donations to charitable causes nominated by Hunslet’s.

There is little doubt that the Hunslet Archives represent the most important source of industrial locomotive history in existence including as it does surviving records of The Hunslet Engine Co, Manning Wardle, Hudswell Clarke, Kerr Stuart, Avonside and Greenwood & Batley with over 100,000 drawings, over 20,000 official photographs and thousands of other important items including engine books. The cataloguing and digitizing of the archive is an enormous project but the publication of these two books represents our first attempt to make the material more widely available. This reprint of two Kerr Stuart books from the Archive is the beginning of a series of reprints we will be publishing in conjunction with Hunslet’s.

	'Kerr Stuart Locomotive Catalogue' (reprint) ISBN 978 1 901556 55 1 (softbound) The Locomotive Catalogue was first published by Kerr, Stuart & Co in 1909 and was updated until about 1920. A4 size, 44 pages - 36 pages of loco photos plus 4 pages of an appendix giving details of the locos. £6.95 (soft)
	'Fifteen Shillings Change' (reprint) ISBN 978 1 901556 575 (softbound) The title was Kerr Stuart’s way of suggesting that the running costs of their range of diesel locomotives was only 25% that of a steam locomotive. A4 size, 32 pages including 4 added by the IRS £6.95 (soft)