| Description | Side Lever Boat Engines for Land (12 items).
1044. Birley & Kirk, Manchester (QR). Mar.-Jul. 1832. 12 items.
50 horse power side lever boat engine for land, with 39½ inch cylinder, 3½ foot stroke.
Reverse plan of the engine house, plan of the tunnel and foundation plates and covering stones, longitudinal and cross-sections of the engine house; governor and gearing - partially coloured reverse drawing; cold water pump - 2 uncoded sketch drawings and partially coloured original and reverse drawings; steam and screw stop pipes etc. - partially shaded drawing; sketch elevation and plan of plates etc. for outer end of crank shaft - coloured drawing; crane - reverse drawing; 2 sketches of fly wheel by William and Frederick Bennett. All the drawings except the cold water pump and fly wheel sketches bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 856. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 206.
For Birley & Kirk. Manchester. The firm later became Birley & Co.
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