| Description | Water Works Engines (101 items).
1083. The New River Co., Stoke Newington, London (FM). Apr., Oct.-Dec. 1847, Jan.-Mar., May, Jul., Sep.-Nov. 1848, Jan., Feb. 1849. Sep., Oct. 1850, Apr. 1855, Dec. 1857. 101 items.
50 horse power crank engine, with 36 inch cylinder, 6 foot stroke, parallel motion, [cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod].
Views of the engine and boiler houses, Oct. 1847:
Reverse plan of the engine and boiler houses (partially coloured), longitudinal and transverse sections of the engine house, transverse sections of the engine house, longitudinal section of the boiler house, cross-section of the boiler house (with tracing), longitudinal section of the engine house showing the pumps etc., "plan in section" of the engine house showing the bolt holes.
Components, pumps etc. Apr. 1847-Apr. 1855:
Steam whistle made by David Gordon, Spears St., Stevenson Square, Manchester - uncoded coloured drawing; steam case and cylinder etc., pump to replenish the air vessel with air, air pump bucket, entablature and spring beams and columns, spur wheels and pinion for pump gearing, fly wheel and shaft and plummer blocks and sleeper plates etc. - partially coloured original and reverse drawings; elevation of crank shaft, fly wheel, pump shaft, wheels etc. - partially coloured reverse drawing; hot and cold water pumps, blow pipe, waste water pipe etc. - partially shaded original drawing; holding down bolts (uncoded); steam, feed and safety pipes - coloured original and coloured reverse drawings; 12 inch three-throw pumps -partially shaded original drawing; bearer beam for the 10½ and 12 inch three-throw pumps, three-throw crank shaft to work the 10½ inch and 12 inch pumps - original and reverse drawings; gearing for working the 10½ and 12 inch pumps - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings; air vessel for the 10½ and 12 inch pumps, three-throw pumps 10½ and 12 inch and air vessel - partially shaded original drawings; pump and gearing to replenish the air vessel - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings; plan of pumps and suction pipes - partially shaded reverse drawing; girder for the stays for the 12 inch three-throw pumps - original and reverse drawings; governor and expansion gearing - partially coloured original drawing; stays for the 10½ and 12 inch three-throw pumps, steam pipes, parts of throttle and expansion valve gear - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings; proposed 15 inch three-throw pumps to be substituted for the present 10½ inch, new working barrel and bottom part of ditto, air force pump - partially coloured original drawings. All these drawings bear letter codes.
Tracings, rough sketches, uncoded drawings, memoranda etc.:
Tracing of sketch of 12 inch three-throw pump, Sep. 1847; extra damper, Oct. 1848, marked "with Mr. Brown's letter of 4 Jan. 1849"; tracing of sketch of clacks [?] for air vessel; sketch of eccentric; sketch of shaft; rods [?] for hot and cold water pumps, Dec. 1857; memorandum of high water marks, levels etc.; memorandum of "Extracts of letters relating to the 50 horse Engine & pumps to be erected at Newington for the New River Co." - extracts from letters from William Chadwell Mylne and James Brown, Sep. 1847-Nov. 1848.
Tracings of the engine house etc.:
Plan of the engine and boiler houses showing existing engine and proposed 30 horse (later altered on the plan to a 50 horse); sketch elevation of a 50 horse engine for William Chadwell Mylne, Sep. 1847; plan and elevation of the engine house by William Chadwell Mylne, Dec. 1847; section and plan of the Newington engine houses.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 989. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 182.
For The New River Co. Pumping engine, Lordship Lane, Stoke Newington, London. This engine was erected alongside the engine that The New River Co. bought from the Eau Brink Cut [see Portfolio 5/1081].
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