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Ref NoMS 3147/3/416/52
TitleLetter. Gilbert Meason (Edinburgh) to Matthew Boulton (Birmingham).
LevelItem
Date31 Jan 1797
DescriptionProblems with his engine – poor condition of the cylinder, high coal consumption. Recent attempts to open new veins in the mine. Would it be worth buying a new cylinder. The old cylinder has proved very expensive, but they have had no redress from Mr. Wilkinson whose people fraudulently “smoothed it up.”
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