| Description | Side Lever Boat Engines for Land (10 items).
1052. Charles Macintosh & Co., Manchester (LY). Dec. 1838, Jan.-Mar., Jun. 1839. 10 items.
30 horse power side lever boat engine for land, with 32¾ inch cylinder, 2½ foot stroke, 20 horse engine framing.
Plan of the engine house - coloured drawing by Wren & Bennett; air pump, condenser and hot water cistern - coloured original drawing; section of fly wheel shaft boss sent by Wren & Bennett; drawings of 4 courses of masonry copied from drawings by William Bennett; 4 sheets of notes, rough sketches and calculations etc.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 920. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 206.
For Charles Macintosh & Co. Mill, Manchester. Macintosh also bought two 20 horse boat engines, in 1825 and 1835 [see Pfs. 1066 & 1067].
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