| Description | Independent Beam (Crank) Engines (11 items).
1019a. Hibbert & Co., Jamaica (JQ). Sep., Nov., Dec. 1842, Jul. 1845. 11 items.
10 horse power high pressure independent crank engine, with 11 inch cylinder, 2½ foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod.
Also sugar mill, breeze pump.
Plan of the engine and boiler and part of sugar mill, longitudinal section of the engine and transverse sections of the boiler, cross-section of the engine, longitudinal section of the boiler; sketch of high pressure cylinder; breeze pump - orignal and reverse drawings; working gear shaft - coloured plan and section; sketches of steam and feed pipes, feeding apparatus, feed valve for the boiler, breeze pump passed to the Foundry. All the drawings except the last item bear letter codes.
Also sketch of apparatus for regulating the water in the high pressure boiler, Jul. 1845 (sent to Boulton Watt & Co.).
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 851. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 230, 232.
For the New Yarmouth Estate, Jamaica. Sugar plantation engine ordered by Hibbert & Co. of 1 Billiter Court, London. Henry Hazelton listed this engine twice in the Catalogue of Old Engines.
See also: 4/95 (Engine Order Book No. 9).
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