The collection consists of Herbert Loebl's business and personal records.

The business records contain group papers, sales and marketing files, finance files and general correspondence files for the following engineering and knowledge transfer enterprises with which Herbert Loebl was involved in his lifetime:

The collection also contains a number of annotated scrapbooks which trace the history of Loebl's engineering enterprises through photographs, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera.

Herbert Loebl's academic collection contains his early student notebooks from his degree studies in Electrical Engineering, and notes and source material for his subsequent doctoral thesis and Jewish history research. The collection also includes his certificates and various degree ceremony photographs.

Herbert Loebl received various awards during his lifetime and his personal collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and letters of congratulations regarding his many honours.

Correspondence files and brochures for New Business North, incorporating the TechSearch initiative and Newcastle Technology Centre files. The collection also holds various research files relating to technology transfer in Europe and a number of governmental reports and publications on the subject.

Folder of source material accumulated by Herbert Loebl for his Phd thesis 'Government Financed Factories in the North East of England in the Context of the Evolution of Regional Policy 1934 - 1948'. Comprises of copies of published material, reports, newspaper clippings and letters of correspondence.