| Description | Water Works Engines (18 items).
1108. Cranston Hill Water Works (P & Q). Jul., Aug. 1810, Jan., Apr., Oct. 1811, 1812. 18 items.
Two single-acting engines, with 36 inch cylinders, 7 foot strokes, parallel motions, cast iron beams.
Also filtering apparatus.
Reverse plan of the engine house and boilers, longitudinal section of engine and boiler, cross-section of the engine house, cross-section of the boilers, cross-section through the cylinder end of the engine house; working gear - 2 partially coloured original and 1 partially coloured reverse drawing; air vessel, catch pin, delivering valve box, valve box - reverse drawings; sketch of catch pin marked "proposed to be used for Aberdeen W. W." (with sketch of cylinder and piston on the back); "Cranston Hill Engines" - sheet of notes on the injection cocks, nozzles etc.; coloured map of the company's land (half of the sheet is missing); printed "Plan shewing the manner in which it is proposed, by the Cranston Hill Water Works Company, to Raise Water from the River Clyde, for the Supply of the City of Glasgow, and its neighbourhood" (marked "Received at Soho 4 Jul. 1810"), and second copy with more extensive notes sent by Archibald Bogle, Secretary to the Cranston Hill Co., Aug. 1810; sketch section of the well, marked "Brought by George Haden 1812"; coloured sections and plans of the filtering beds by Mr. Gibb. All the drawings except the last 7 items bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 628. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 178.
For the proprietors of the Cranston Hill Water Works. Pumping engines, Anderston, Glasgow.
See also: 4/93 (Engine Order Book No. 7).
|