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Papers regarding a disputed patent for which Swift acted as an expert in support of the patentees. Includes letters to and from solicitors, the British Patents Office, the patentees, the disputees and Swift. Also includes expert opinion and copies of publications relating to the manufacturing processes involved.

Concerns the publication of Swift's papers, building work on Mrs Swift's house, and the application of an acquaintance's daughter to attend Ashford School.

The lecture, entitled 'The centennial year of Herbert Walker Swift, 1894-1960, Professor of Engineering in the University of Sheffield: his life and work', was delivered by Prof. Johnson at the University of Sheffield on 6 Dec. 1995. It was subsequently published in the Journal of Materials Processing Technology 65 (1997), 153-164.