| Description | Matthew Wasborough’s successor has told the Commissioners of the Navy Victualling Board that Boulton & Watt have no right to use the crank. Can guess "from what quarter this matter has been started" as he has heard it at Portsmouth too. Has been asked what Boulton would say, and said that Boulton "would use the crank & laugh at them". Details of a common engine he saw at Portsmouth Dockyard. Has told the Comptroller Sir Charles Middleton the saving a Boulton & Watt engine would make. |