| Description | 93. Vertical Engines - Slide Valves. 1872, 1874, 1875, 1877, 1879-1885, 1887-1891, 1893. 85 items.
Details of slide valves, cases, expansion valves etc.
S.S. Seine:
Details of low pressure cylinder slide - coloured drawing, Oct. 1872.
Section and plan of a slide valve - coloured drawing, Oct. 1872.
Slide valves for high pressure cylinder - coloured drawing, Nov. 1872.
Portsmouth Dockyard Extension:
Sectional elevations of slide valve cases - partially coloured tracing, Jan. 1874 (2 copies).
Slide valves for main engines - partially coloured tracing, Jul. 1874.
Slide and expansion valves for drainage engines - partially coloured tracing, Jul. 1874 (2 copies).
S.S. Greyhound:
Slide and expansion valves - coloured tracing, Jan. 1875.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway:
Slide valves and gear for 16 inch and 12 inch engines - coloured tracing, Jun. 1877.
Thomas Wethered & Sons:
Details of new slide valve to the 6 horse engine - partially coloured drawing and partially coloured tracing, Jan. 1879.
St. Katherine's Docks (drawings also used for Leith Dock, 1880):
Slide and expansion valves etc. - partially coloured tracing, Feb. 1879 (drawing later used for S.S. Jacare, 1881).
Detail of expansion valve - coloured tracing, Feb. 1879.
Detail of slide valve - partially coloured tracing, Feb. 1879.
Details of springs and packing rings for slide valves - partially coloured tracing, Mar. 1879.
Victoria Dock Extension:
Slide cases for main engines - partially coloured tracing, Feb. 1879 (drawing later used for Leith Dock, 1880 and S.S. Jacare, 1881).
Slide and expansion valves, rods, eccentrics etc. - coloured drawing, Feb. 1879.
Details of springs and packing rings for slide valves - partially coloured drawing, Feb. 1879.
Bank of England:
New slide and expansion valves for old engine - coloured drawing, Jun. 1879.
Watney & Co.:
Slide valve and gear for new 50 horse engine - coloured drawing, Jul. 1879.
Reid & Co.:
Details of new nozzles and valves for no. 2 engine - coloured drawing, Aug. 1879.
Salford Sewage Works:
Details of slide case - partially coloured tracing, Feb. 1880.
Details of slide valves - partially coloured tracing, Mar. 1880.
Packing rings for balancing cylinders - partially coloured tracing, Apr. 1880.
Leith Dock:
Slide valve case for main engine - partially coloured tracing, Jul. 1880.
Indian State Railways:
Slide valve for 20 horse vertical engines - partially coloured tracing, Jan. 1881.
Expansion rod and valve - partially coloured tracing, Jan. 1881.
High and low pressure slide valves and case - 2 partially coloured tracings, Mar. 1882.
Walker & Co., Steam Tug:
Details of high and low pressure slide cases - drawing, tracing and copy on blueprint paper, Mar. 1881 (drawing later used for engine KC, 1881, and Holland & Co., 1883).
Details of high and low pressure slide and expansion valves - coloured drawing, Apr. 1881.
Detail of high pressure slide valve - drawing on blueprint paper, May 1881.
Detail of low pressure slide valve - drawing on blueprint paper, May 1881.
Walker & Co. No. 2, Sidi Daud.
Details of high and low pressure slide cases - coloured drawing, partially coloured tracing and copy on blueprint paper, Jun. 1881.
Details of high and low pressure slide and expansion valves - partially coloured tracing, Jun. 1881.
Detail of high pressure slide valve - drawing on blueprint paper, Jul. 1881.
Symon's Boat (Altata, 35 horse compound engine):
Details of high and low pressure slide and expansion valves - drawing on blueprint paper, Aug. 1881.
Hull Graving Dock No. 2:
Cylinder, cover and piston - partially coloured tracing, Jan. 1882.
Slide and expansion valves, rods, etc. - partially coloured drawing and partially coloured tracing,, Jan. 1883.
Detail of alteration to valve spindle - small partially coloured tracing, Jan. 1883.
Sketch of engines and pumps - small drawing on blueprint paper, Feb. 1883.
Hull Sewage Works:
Details of slide case - drawing on blueprint paper, Jun. 1882.
Slide valves and starting gear - coloured tracing, Jul. 1882.
Holland & Co.:
Press copy memorandum re alteration of Walker & Co.'s drawings for Holland & Co., Jan. 1883 (2 pages).
Albert Dock, London:
Details of high and low pressure slide and expansion valves - drawing on blueprint paper, Apr. 1883.
Hartlepool Graving Dock:
Slide and expansion valves etc. - coloured drawing, Jul. 1883.
Slide and expansion valves etc. - partially coloured tracing, Aug. 1883.
Manbré Saccharine Co.:
Details of slide case, slide and expansion valves for pumping engine - partially coloured tracing, Oct. 1883.
Steam Trawlers, Castle Steel & Iron Co.:
Details of slide valve cases - partially coloured drawing and copy on blueprint paper, Dec. 1883.
High and low pressure slide valves - coloured drawing, coloured tracing and copy on blueprint paper, Jan. 1884 (also used for J. Muirhead, 1891).
S.S. Britannia:
Detail of high and low pressure slide valve cases - partially coloured drawing, May 1884.
Detail of high and low pressure slide and expansion valves - partially coloured drawing, Jun. 1884.
Birkenhead Water Works:
Details of slide covers - partially coloured drawing, Dec. 1885.
Graving Dock, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (IK):
Details of slide and expansion valves etc. - coloured drawing and coloured copy, Sep. 1887.
Detail of guide bracket for slide valve spindles - partially coloured drawing, Jun. 1888.
H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth:
Details of high pressure slide valve - partially coloured tracing, Jan. 1889.
Stanley Lewis & Co.:
Details of high and low pressure slide cases - 2 coloured tracings, Apr. 1889.
Details of high and low pressure slide and expansion valves - coloured drawing and coloured tracing, May 1889.
Bombay Mint, India (IS):
Details of slide valves - partially coloured drawing and partially coloured tracing, Feb. 1890.
Ryde Water Works, Sydney, Australia:
Details of slide case - partially coloured drawing, Feb. 1890.
Details of slide valves - coloured tracing, Apr. 1890.
Warsaw Water Works, Poland:
Details of slide valves - tracing, Apr. 1890.
Detail of slide valves for 3rd engine (IX) - partially coloured tracing, Aug. 1890.
York Sewerage Works:
Details of cylinder and slide case for centrifugal engines - partially coloured tracing, Feb. 1891.
West Ham Sewage Works, London:
Details of slide valve case - 2 coloured drawings, Apr. 1891.
Details of high and low pressure slide and expansion valves - coloured tracing, May 1891.
The Patent Shaft & Axletree Co.:
New slide and case, also new throttle valve - coloured drawing, Apr. 1893.
J. Abraham, Adderley Park, Birmingham:
Slide valve - pencil drawing, Sep. ?
New Union Mill Co.:
Details of new slide valves and cases - partially coloured drawing, not dated.
S.S. Kromatah (W. B. Haffenden):
New high pressure slide valve - drawing on blueprint paper, not dated.
Untitled tracing of a slide valve, not dated.
Untitled coloured tracing of a slide valve, not dated, marked "No. 2."
The majority of these drawings were made in the London office.
Slide valves, cases, expansion valves etc. Most of these valves were for vertical engines, but they include valves for other types of engine such as beam engines and horizontal engines.
See also: Portfolio 6/45 (slide valves for horizontal engines). |