| Description | Boat-Mounted Pumping and Dredging Engines (5 items).
1276b. Gloucester & Berkeley Canal, "Boat Engine" No. 2. Sep. 1796, Jan. 1833. 5 items.
Single-acting engine, with 28 inch cylinder, 2½ foot stroke, direct connection.
General view and plan of the engine and boiler, cross-sections of the boiler and seating and front view of the engine - coloured original and coloured reverse drawings. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Also "Copy of Plan of proposed situation of Engines for the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co. by Mr. W. Clegram" - partially coloured plan and section showing River Severn, canal basin and dock etc., marked "Brought to Soho 22 Jan. 1833" and "Engines not ordered at Soho").
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 214. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 134.
For the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co. Pumping engine mounted in a boat, and referred to as a "boat engine". The drawings were placed in the same book as those for the first "boat engine" ordered in 1794 [see Pf. 1276a]. |