| Description | Independent Beam (Crank) Engines (2 items).
1014. Oswald Smith & Co., Jamaica (IQ). Oct. 1835. 2 items.
10 horse power independent crank engine, with 19¾ inch cylinder, 2½ foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod.
Reverse side view of the engine, plan of the engine and boiler, cross-section of the engine house and boiler, longitudinal section of the boiler. Both sheets bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 851. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 242.
For Jamaica. Sugar plantation engine [?] ordered by Oswald Smith & Co. of 2 Mansion House Place, London. The correspondence from Smith & Co. does not state the name of the estate that this engine was for, but the sugar mill that the engine powered was made by George & John Rennie. Henry Hazleton erroneously listed this engine among the British Independent engines in the Catalogue of Old Engines.
See also: 4/95 (Engine Order Book No. 9).
Incoming Correspondence. |