| Description | Steam Boat Engines (14 items).
1262. Lake of Constance Steam Packet Leopold 1st (QD & QE). Feb., Apr. 1831, May 1832. 14 items.
Two 20 horse power side lever boat engines, with 26¾ inch cylinders, 2½ foot strokes.
Also boiler for William of Friederickshafen.
Cross-section of the boat and engines, longitudinal section of the engine room and boiler, plan and section of the engine room platform, plan of the engine deck beams, plan of the engine sleepers, side view of gangway wale - reverse drawings made in the London office; section and plan of boiler - reverse drawing made in the London office (this drawing was originally made in 1827 for the Venice boat Eridano [Pf. 1218]); safety valves - original and reverse drawings; sketch of paddle shafts. The boiler and safety valve drawings bear letter codes.
Boiler for William of Friederickshafen: 2 partially coloured original and 2 reverse drawings made in the London office, May 1832 (the boiler is noted as being for a 30 horse engine, and one of the original drawings is marked "not adopted").
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 842. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 318.
For the Company of Steam Boat Navigation of the Lake of Constance, Grand Duchy of Baden. The agents were Doxat & Co. of London. |