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Ref NoMS 3147/12/37/214
TitleLetter. James Watt Jr. (Soho) to James Brown
LevelItem
Date19 March 1832
DescriptionDocketed as Boulton Watt & Co. Docketed “Proposal to send up Wilcox for Southend 20 horse engines. Navy No. 8s have been worked and boiler filling in pieces. Have written to Rennies under cover to Fairlie & Co. Correspondence to be returned to send to Mr. Forbes. Have a letter from Rennies delivered by their agent John Kirk – going out to Constantinople on the business of the armoury mill. Gun barrels to be turned and not ground by a peculiar lathe – the invention of a Spanish engineer.”
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Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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