| Description | Summarised “Difficulty in getting castings delivered. Cylinder to be lengthened. About arrangement of boiler flues. Wheal Spirit engine (Wheal Busy) gives satisfaction – goes 16 strokes, also all say 13 strokes with half an inch of steam. Will soon have flat rods in. Concerning the various mines. Imagines the Wheal Virgin engine will be the last of the type built for the county. About furnishing Watt’s house. Can Watt fix a price for engines supplied to Chacewater.” |