| Description | Water Works Engines (10 items).
1107a. Hull Water Works. Apr., Oct. 1778, Aug. 1779, Jun. 1783, Aug. 1800. 10 items.
Single-acting engine, with 22 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, chain connection.
General section and plan of the engine and boiler, plan of the second floor, cross-sections of the engine and engine house; sheet of drawings of cylinder, hot water pump bucket, air pump bucket, pipes etc. (2 copies, 1 partially coloured); side view and plan of the working gear (with diagram of curve of exhaustion opening arch on the reverse); plan and side view of the top nozzle
Also the following later items: plan and section of new air pump bucket, plans and sections of air and hot water pumps, Jun. 1783; plan and section of inner cylinder bottom, Aug. 1800.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 16 [in the Drawing Office Index only].
Catalogue of Old Engines p. 176.
For Mayson Wright. Pumping engine, Hull, Yorkshire. Wright, a merchant of Cottingham, leased Hull Water Works from the town Corporation. He went bankrupt in 1784, and William Osbourne Jr. purchased the remainder of his lease on the water works.
See also: Incoming Correspondence (from William Osbourne Jr., Mayson Wright), Engine Agreements.
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