| Description | Water Works Engines (25 items).
1098. London Bridge Water Works, London. Mar., Jun., Aug., Nov. 1785, Jul. 1786, Mar. 1787, Jul. 1788. 25 items.
Single-acting engine, with 32 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Also "Great Engine" (water wheel and pumps).
Proposed designs:
Pencil section of the engine house showing engine with chain connection and boiler directly beneath the cylinder (this drawing has 2 external elevations of the engine house stuck to it).
Partially coloured and reverse general view of the engine and, with sketch of the "present arch and new boiler top drawn to show what room there is"; partially coloured and reverse proposed plans of the engine (these drawings show an engine with a chain connection and 30 inch cylinder).
General view of the engine and boiler, end view and plan of the engine (these drawings are marked "followed"); plan of the engine at the ash pit floor; nozzles - reverse drawings Mar. 1785, with drawing of right nozzle, and untitled external view of nozzle; pump end parallel motion, eduction pipe - reverse drawings; plan, end view and elevation of the pump end parallel motion; beam, spring beams, plummer blocks and saddle plate - reverse drawings; working gear - partially coloured reverse front and side views; plug and guide post [?], valve [?], air vessel and pipes.
Also "Elevation of a Receiver & Distributor which was erected at the London Bridge Water Works in the Year 1780 instead of the High Tower which was consumed by Fire October 29 1779" (2 copies); coloured original elevation and coloured original and reverse plan of the "Great Engine for the fifth Arch of London Bridge" showing water wheel and pumps etc., from drawings by John Smeaton, Mar. 1787;
"Plan of the Receiver and Distributor with the Pipes from the several Mains on each of which there is a connecting cock together with the leading pipe from the Fire Engine" - 2 printed plates by John Foulds, Chief Millwright & Surveyor, 1 Jul. 1788 (the plates note that the metalwork was done by Birkbeck & Ball, Ironfounders).
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 57. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 176.
For the London Bridge Water Works. Pumping engine, London Bridge, London. The geographical section of the List of Engines made at Soho states that this engine had a 34 inch cylinder.
See also: Incoming Correspondence (from John Foulds), Engine Agreements.
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