| Title | Water Works Engines, 1846, 1858, 1861, 1873, 1876, 1881, 1883—1886, 1894 (21 items). |
| Description | 96. Water Works Engines. 1846, 1858, 1861, 1873, 1876, 1881, 1883-1886, 1894. 21 items.
Miscellaneous drawings of engines, engine components, pumps etc.
Clifton Water Works, Bristol:
Pumps, plungers and rods, valves and suction pipes, stand pipes and air vessel etc. - partially coloured reverse drawing, Jan. 1846.
Hornsey Water Works:
Sections of 15 inch pump - partially coloured reverse drawing, Mar. 1858.
Serpentine Water Works, London:
Transverse sections of engines and pumps - partially coloured drawing, Jan. 1861.
Inlet Station, Buenos Ayres Water Works, Argentina:
Section through upper pump well and engine foundations - partially coloured drawing, not dated (circa 1873).
Worthing Water Works:
Air pump, condenser, cold water cistern etc. - coloured drawing, Apr. 1876.
Selly Oak Pumping Station, Birmingham Corporation Water Works:
Elevation of the engine - printed drawing removed from Engineering, 26 Aug. 1881.
Warsaw Water Works, Poland:
Detail of saddles for boilers - tracing, Apr. 1883.
Contract No. 2 (engine JV):
Arrangement and details of waste steam pipes - tracing, Dec. 1885.
General arrangement of injector and pipes - tracing, May 1886.
Mounting on steam chest for stop valve - small press copy sketch, Sep. 1886.
Main Station, Buenos Ayres Water Works, Argentina:
Stop valves and pipe - sketches sent by W. H. Scholes, Dec. 1884.
Great Yarmouth Water Works:
Snatch block for 3 x 3 sheave rope pulley blocks to carry 5 tons - drawing on blueprint paper, Apr. 1885.
A pair of 3 x 3 sheave rope pulley blocks - drawing on blueprint paper, Apr. 1885.
Newark Water Works:
Arrangement of temporary well pumps, for sinking - partially coloured tracing, Nov. 1894.
Saveall for parallel motion, cylinder end - tracing, not dated.
[See also 7/2f.]
Brighton Water Works (Patcham):
Details of bell cranks and girders and blocks for ditto - partially coloured tracing, Nov. 1894. [See also: 7/2d.]
Southwark & Vauxhall Water Works (Old Hampton Works):
Transverse section of the engine house showing 2 beam engines - tracing.
Plan of the engine house showing 2 engines with 64 inch cylinders and engine with 70 inch cylinder etc. - tracing.
Sections and plans of the standpipes, plunger etc. - tracing.
Details of new cylinder and steam case for No. 3 Bull engine - tracing.
Indicator figures taken from pumps of the 3 Bull engines - tracing.
[None of these tracings are dated or coded but they appear to be from the 1890s.] |