| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (25 items).
Pump work for brewery.
Coloured section of the well showing engine shaft, types of soil, pumps etc.; stays for the upper rising mains and pump rods in the old well; sketch of pumps etc.; section of upper clack etc. - coloured original and coloured reverse copy; 3 sections of the well and pumps - 3 separate coloured original drawings and 1 long coloured reverse copy made up of the various sections stuck together; plans and sections of the well house - partially coloured reverse drawings; section of the well and pumps - partially coloured drawing made from the 3 previous sections and the well house drawings; gearing for well pumps - 2 partially coloured original and 2 reverse drawings; sketch for pumps - partially coloured drawing marked "this drawing is not correct - see one marked OJQ"; 10 inch pump (OJQ) - partially coloured drawing; guide stays for pump bolts, straps for securing the upper main to the curbs - press copy drawings; support beams for double crank shaft for working pumps - original and reverse drawings; beams to support upper clacks - original and press copy drawings; sketch of support beams [? - very faint]; memorandum "Extracts from letters in reference to Reid's pumps" [extracts from 26 Oct. 1843 to 19 Mar. 1844]. Most of the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 950. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 294.
For A. Reid & Co. Brewery, Liquor Pond St., London. Well and pump work. The firm was formerly Meux Reid & Co., and as such they purchased two engines [see Portfolios 5/417 and 439]. By 1869 the firm had become W. Reid & Co.
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