A government-supplied Shorthand Note Book dated 1966 and 1967 containing notes from visits to a variety of industrial buildings and works thoughout the UK, including breweries, refineries, founderies, brickyards, docks, pumping stations, tanneries and potteries. The contents are itemized on the front and back covers. Mills visited are listed at 'Place access points' below. There are several unindexed Staffordshire mills.

A Reporters Notebook labelled 'Bath Nov 1967, Group 9 Reading Feb 1968, Kent & Staffs 1968', the contents being itemised on the front and back covers.
The 'Bath' section of the notebook begins with 43 pages of notes which appear to have been taken at a conference on industrial archaeology and possible means of preserving its heritage, including discussion of open-air museums. Notes are taken from talks by: Angus Buchanan - 'The Status of Industrial Archaeology; 'The Techniques of Industrial Archaeology, Part I and II' - Michael Rix and Frank Atkinson, respectively; and a paper given by Kenneth Hudson, giving particular reference to the approach adopted by museums in Scandinavia.
The 'Reading' section is marked 'Group 9, CBA' and features notes on lectures given at a further symposium on: the farm estate at Buscott Park (John Grayson) - at one time considered to be the most industrialised in the country; the Bucklebury Foundry ([Mc]Combe); and S. & E. Collier's gravel and brick-works [in Reading] (Ken Major).
The remainder of the notebook records visits to various industrial buildings and works in Kent (including a waterworks, two breweries and a wheelwrights) and numerous sites in Staffordshire, including several concerned with the china and earthenware manufacturing industry and surrounding canal network. Mills visited are listed at 'Place access points' below. Unindexed watermills were visited at: Park Mill, High Offley, Eccleshall; Wetley Rocks; and Cookshill, Caverswall, as was an unidentified mill called Logwood [Logwodd] Mill about which, Wailes notes, a film was made by the BBC .

A government-supplied Shorthand Notebook dated May to August 1967, containing notes from visits to a variety of industrial buildings and works throughout the UK but particularly in Somerset, Westmorland and Wales. Sites visited include breweries, foundries, rope-walks, collieries, quarries and slate, brick and granite-works. The contents are itemized on the front cover. Mills visited are listed at 'Place access points' below. Unindexed mills at Bovey Tracey, Pontlliw (referencing Penallt millstones) and Felindre, Swansea were also visited, as was the millstone quarry at Penallt, Monmouthshire.

A government-supplied Shorthand Note Book labelled, 'Rex Wailes. No Mills. 1963. Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester' with notes on a variety of topics including:
Lecture series: Notes on talks given to: the Northampton Natural History Society (19 March 1963); the Nonsuch & Ewell Antiquarian Society (26 March 1963); in Canterbury (6-7 April 1963). These were seemingly given to generate support for forthcoming survey-work. The Canterbury notes also include observations on the Kent mills listed at 'Place access points' below. Draft letters to those attending/organising these events also feature, including one with respect to a proposed visit to 'Pilgrim's College'.
Nottinghamshire pumping stations: Notes on pumping stations at Bestwood, Papplewick, Boughton, near Ollerton, and Basford, with reference to the relevant manufacturers (e.g. Ashton Frost and Hathone Davy). Also contains a list of mills in the Southwell area of Nottingham, focusing on the River Greet and Dora Beck.
Canals: Notes taken at Manchester Public Library on surveys of the Greater Manchester/Lancashire canal network and the rivers serving them.

Research material relating to Johann Friedrich Weidler and Richard Jones, engineers who created systems for pumping water from the River Tagus to the city of Toledo, Spain, int he 18th century. Documents include a letter from Alan Smith relating to Weidler; photocopies of pages from the 16th volume of the Wren Society, 1939 relating to Richard Jones; typed notes relating to Richard Jones, along with correspondence between Stephen and Jose A Garcia-Diego, council member of the International Molinological Society; photocopy of "El Ingenio del Agua en Toledo en El Siglo XVIII" in "Anales Toledanos XIII", by Gabriel Mora del Pozo, 1980; negative and print of a an indenture agreement dated 31 August 1726 between John Taverner, John Ellis, and Richard Jones, relating to Jones's water-raising system installed in Toledo. The negative and print are copies of the original document at the Huntington Library, California.

Handwritten notes relating to Pierre Patte's work "Monuments érigés en France à la Gloire de Louis XV", and the water pumping system installed for Versailles Palace.

Slides of House Mill and Clock Mill, Bromley-by-Bow, and London Hydraulic Power Company's power station, Wapping.
Note on the box: "Easter 1981 - Sy Docks from top of tower block nr mouth of LCC road tunnel. London Hydraulic Power Co's pumping stn (disused) at Rotherhithe nr do; GLC water sports centre under end of Grenland dock; views up & down Thames from near mouth of Gd. dock (Downstream); Holborn viaduct & statue of Science on do; drinking fntn, 1859, St Sepuchre's, High Holborn".

Slides of Dartmouth Newcomen Engine, Devon.
Note on the box: "Stephen Buckland Dartmouth Atmospheric Engine"..