Martyn Papers

William Lawrence Docton Martyn

Given by P.D. Martyn

Punjab, Bengal, Assam 1927-1947

Assistant executive engineer, North Western Railway, Lahore 1927.

Worked on several projects in various capacities, i.e. Empress Bridge at Adamwahan 1929-30: Bombay Sind Railway Survey 1930: Became Engineer-in-Chef for Surveys in 1946. He left India in 1947.


Box 1 – Personal official documents; papers relating to the All India Association of European Government Services; correspondence and documents about service in (and working for) Indian Railways.

Box 2 – Technical and official railway reports and documents.

Box 3 – Engineering conference papers; Sutlej River bridge building.

Boxes 4-7 – Reports from North Western Railway.