| Description | 2f. Newark Water Works (HK). Oct. 1893-Feb. 1894, Apr.-Jul. 1894. 20 items.
Beam crank engine, with 19 inch cylinder, 3 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Numbered drawings:
13 - main lever and gudgeons, 19 - connecting and piston rods (2 copies), 24 - well pumps, 24 - details of bucket and suction valves for well pumps, 26 - fly wheel, 32 - nozzles, 33 - steam and exhaust valves, 52 - working gear for nozzles, 55 - proposed hand barring gear, 79 - governor spindle, trip gear and valve for destroying vacuum, 81 - mitre wheels for working gear - copies on blueprint paper. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Also details of piston - partially coloured tracing; tracing of rivetting for boiler shells; results of experiments on various components by Henry Pope and David Kirkaldy & Son - blueprint copies of 3 tables, Feb. and Apr. 1894.
Also blueprint copies of drawings of "amended proposed arrangement of Galloway's Patent Hand Safety Barring Gear for engines" (made by Galloways Ltd., Knott Mill Iron Works, Manchester), Hopkinson's patent "Triad" junction valve and patent parallel slide valve (made by J. Hopkinson & Co., Britannia Works, Huddersfield). All these drawings were made in Feb. 1894. It is unclear whether they were actually used on the Newark engine. They may also have been for the Southwark & Vauxhall Streatham Works engine.
For Newark Water Works, Newark, Nottinghamshire. Pumping engine.
See also: Portfolios 6/96 (temporary well pumps, saveall for parallel motion, cylinder end), 7/29 (parts of parallel motion). |