| Description | Indian Midland Railway (HE & HF)
HE: Two inverted vertical compound engines, with 14 and 22½ inch cylinders, 2 foot strokes ("Machine shop and Saw Mill Engines").
HF: Two inverted vertical compound engines, with 11 and 17½ inch cylinders, 1 foot 8 inch strokes ("Boiler and Smiths' Shops Engines").
Set of numbered drawings:
Nos. 1-13: Machine Shop and Saw Mill Engines:
1 - high pressure cylinders and slide case - coloured tracing; 2 - low pressure cylinders and slide case - 2 coloured tracings; [No. 3 missing]; 4 - crank shafts and discs - partially coloured tracing; [No. 4 missing]; No. 5 - condenser - partially coloured tracing; 7 - fly wheel for machine shop engine - partially coloured tracing; 8 - fly wheel for saw mill engine - partially coloured tracing; 9 - pulleys for machine shop engine - tracing; 10 - pulleys for saw mill engine - tracing; 11 - cylinder base frame; 12 - base frame for air pump and pedastal for crank shaft block - tracing; 13 - high and low pressure pistons - partially coloured tracing.
Nos. 14-22: Boiler and Smiths' Shop Engines:
14 - high pressure cylinders - partially coloured tracing and copy on blueprint paper; 15 - low pressure cylinders - partially coloured tracing and copy on blueprint paper; 16 - base frames - partially coloured tracing and copy on blueprint paper; 17 - crank shafts and discs - partially coloured tracing and copy on blueprint paper; 18 - piston rods, crosshead guide blocks and connecting rods - coloured tracing; 19 - 9 foot fly wheel - partially coloured tracing and copy on blueprint paper; 20 - cylinder base frames and pedastals under crank shaft blocks - tracing and copy on blueprint paper; 21 - pulley - tracing; 22 - high and low pressure pistons - partially coloured tracing and copy on blueprint paper.
[No. 23 missing]; 24 - foundations for saw mill engine - partially coloured drawing; [nos. 25-37 missing]; 38 - main and expansion valve rods for Boiler and Smiths' Shops engines - copy on blueprint paper. These two drawings bear letter codes.
For the Indian Midland Railway. The engines with 14 and 22½ inch cylinders powered a machine shop and a saw mill, while the engines with 11 and 17½ inch cylinders powered machinery in a boiler makers' shop and a smiths' shop.
See also: Portfolio 6/6 (base frames). |