| Description | Side Lever Boat Engines for Land (6 items).
1054. Whitbread & Co., London (KR). Aug.-Oct. 1841. 6 items.
30 horse power side lever boat engine for land, with [31½ inch cylinder], 3 foot stroke.
Drawings made in the London office and sent to Soho - coloured reverse elevation and plan of the engine foundations, fly wheel etc.; coloured reverse cross-section and plan of the engine and boiler houses etc. (these drawings show the old beam engine and 2 round boilers); reverse sections of the engine houses.
Elevation and plan of the steam and feed pipes - coloured origninal and coloured reverse drawings; steam slide cock - coloured original drawings. These two drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 938. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 206.
For Whitbread & Co. Brewery, Chiswell St., St. Luke, London. Samuel Whitbread bought the 20 horse sun and planet engine which is shown in some of these drawings in 1784 [see Portfolio 5/4].
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