| Description | Water Works Engines (31 items).
1095. Glasgow Water Works, Nos. 1 & 2 (XX & WW). Jul., Sep., Oct. 1806, Mar. 1807, 1809, Jan., Jul., Sep. 1810, Sep. 1814, Dec. 1830. 31 items.
Two single-acting engines, with 36 inch cylinders, 7 foot strokes, parallel motions, [cast iron beams].
Also filtering apparatus, pipe under the River Clyde.
Reverse plan of the engine and boiler houses (partially coloured), longitudinal section of the engine and boiler houses, cross-section of the engine house showing the columns, cross-section of the cylinder end of the engine house, cross-section of the boilers and boiler house, cross-section of the engine house near the air vessel, plan of the engine and boiler houses taken near the level of the ground, sections of the well showing the pumps, view of the cylinder platform, section and plan of the cistern; parallel motion, front and side views of the working gear - partially coloured original and reverse drawings; nozzles - partially coloured reverse drawing; part of the jackhead pump and air vessel, injection gear - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings; printed list of the materials for two 33 1/3 inch engines (altered later to 36 inch engines); letter from Thomas Telford dated Glasgow, 25 Jul. 1806, with plan of the proposed engine house and reservoir; 2 sheets of coloured plans and sections of the filtering apparatus by Mr. Gibb. All the drawings except the last 4 items bear letter codes.
Also printed "Plan of the City of Glasgow" by R. Scott, with reservoirs added in; printed "Plan shewing the situation of the Proposed Reservoirs and the Course of the Pipes for supplying the City of Glasgow with Water from the River Clyde" by Barlow of Blackfriars Road (this map has the locations of the following engines pencilled in - Bartholomew, Struthers, Pattison, Dunlop & Co., Hussey); section of the land from Duke St. to the Clyde.
Also the following later items: Coloured "Plan of the Glasgow Water Works at the River, and the Peninsula of Rutherglen Farm", copied from a survey by P. Fleming, 1809; memorandum - "Explanation of the Plan for laying and working a Suction Pipe across the River Clyde at the Glasgow Water Works", dated Soho, 22 Jan. 1810 [in James Watt Jr.'s hand?]; 3 sheets of drawings of the pipes under the Clyde, pipe joints, pipe supports, well, sections of the river, punts etc.; coloured "Plan of the present Tunnel from the Engine Well of the Glasgow Waterworks to the River Clyde, and the new laid pipes for conveying the water from the South side of the River" by P. Fleming, Jul. 1810; coloured section and plan of pumps and air vessel, Sep. 1810; notes and sketches for new working barrels, clacks etc. sent to the Foundry (3 small sheets stuck together); sections and plan of the well and pumps made in the Glasgow Water Works Office Dec. 1830.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 567. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 178.
For the Glasgow Water Works. Pumping engines, Dalmarnock, Glasgow. These engines were sometimes referred to as the "river engines". Four 54 inch engines were later erected on the Dalmarnock site [see Pfs. 1096 & 1097]. |