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Ref NoMS 3147/6/72
TitlePumping Engines – Portsmouth Sewage Outfall, Eastney, 1886, 1887 (7 items).
LevelItem
Date1886-1887
Description72. Pumping Engines - Portsmouth Sewage Outfall, Eastney. Apr., Sep. 1886, Oct. 1887. 7 items.
Two compound engines, with 20 inch diameter, 4 foot stroke and 30 inch diameter, 6 foot stroke cylinders.

Details of cold water pump, details of crank shaft plummer block and outer bearing and wall box (with sketch of altered wall box plummer block), details of guide brackets to main pump rods - partially coloured drawings; plan of beam floor girders - coloured drawing; details of intermediate shaft, plummer blocks, drag links etc. - coloured drawing marked "Contract No. 2"; cross-section of foundations etc. also showing old beam engine - coloured drawing. These drawings were made in the London office.

For Portsmouth Sewage Works. Pumping engines, Eastney outfall station.

See also: Portfolios 6/81 (scum cock), 7/31 (transverse section of the engines and foundations).
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