| Description | 8 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 16 inch cylinder, 4 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Includes reverse general view of engine, plans and sections of the engine, framing, boiler etc.; parallel motion; working gear - 2 side and front views, one of which is coloured, and 2 coloured plans; grate bars, fly wheel; 3 press copy order notes mounted on one sheet (the originals were passed to Soho Manufactory); detailed elevation and plan of intended snuff and tobacco milling machinery.
Also press copy of sketches of engine house for proposed 20 horse engine, 10 Aug. 1798. Sketches coded DYV.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 72. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 22.
For Samuel Fish and John Yates. Tobacco and snuff manufactory, St. John St., St. Sepulchre, London. The engine was initially referred to as "FYX". On 7 Aug. 1798 John Rennie wrote to Boulton & Watt saying that Fish & Yates were proposing to order a 20 horse engine, and requesting sketches of the engine house that he could send to them. Sketches were sent to Rennie in Carlisle, but the enquiry appears to have gone no further.
See also: Engine Agreements, Incoming Correspondence.
Published references: Tann, p. 95-6 - elevation and plan of milling machinery.
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