| Description | 88. Trunk Engines - Peninsula & Orient Steam Navigation Co. Collier Rajah. Nov. 1852, May 1853, Jan.-Apr., Jul., Aug. 1854, Nov. 1856. 39 items.
Two 40 horse power trunk engines, with 39 inch cylinders, 2¼ foot strokes.
Sections and plan of the engine room , boiler, propeller shaft etc. - large sheet of partially coloured drawings, Nov. 1852; expansion diagram for two 35 horse engines, May 1853.
Cylinder etc., working gear etc. - coloured drawings; plan of frame - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings; upper headstock frame - coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings; shafts and cranks etc.; sections and plan of boiler - partially coloured reverse drawing; shafts and pushing block and wheels etc. - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings.
Cross-section of the engines showing feed and bilge pumps, cross-section showing boiler, plan of the engines and boiler, plan showing headstock frame and steam pipes etc., longitudinal section showing steam pipes etc. - partially coloured original and coloured reverse drawings.
Piston and connecting rod - coloured original and coloured reverse drawings; air pump rod and bucket - coloured drawing; shafts and cranks - coloured original and coloured reverse drawings; propeller shaft - coloured tracing. These drawings were made in the London office.
Eccentric and rods etc., cranks and shafts, piston and connecting rod (with reverse drawing), feed and bilge pump arrangement, details of working gear - coloured drawings made at Soho [?]; sketch of eccentric [?]; note of various queries about the engines.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 1032.
For the Peninsula & Orient Steam Navigation Co. (P. & O.). The Rajah was built by C. Mare & Co. and was originally intended to have 35 horse direct-acting engines. |