| Description | Crank Engines. (10 items).
521a. Clarke Maze & Co., Bristol (LW). Jun. 1839, Jan. 1872. 10 items.
60 horse power double-acting crank engine, with 38 inch cylinder, 7 foot stroke, parallel motion, [cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod].
Reverse plan and sections of the engine and boiler houses and boilers, plan of the tunnel; coloured section of the engine house and plan of the engine and boiler houses, sent by Wren & Bennett, 3 Jun. 1839; plan on tracing paper of the "proposed scutching room with 60 horse engine, boilers, bleach works, warehouses etc. etc." The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Also 2 sheets of tracings of valves marked "Sent by the Great Western Cotton Co. with their letter of 23 Jan. 1872."
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 922. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 110.
For Clarke Maze & Co. Great Western Cotton Works, Bristol. This engine was for a scutching and bleaching works. See Portfolios 5/516, 5/521b and 5/836 for other engines ordered by the firm By Nov. 1860 the firm had become Bush Ames & Co. and by 1872 it was The Great Western Cotton Co. |