| Description | 20 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 23¾ inch cylinder, 5 foot stroke, parallel motion. Iron beam added 1805.
Reverse general view of the engine and boilers, with pump beam [?] pencilled in, reverse plans and sections of the engine and boilers - one plan has oblong boilers pasted over the round ones; reverse plan and section of the engine and boiler houses and framing, showing connection to mill; cistern - reverse drawings; letter from Joshua Foster to John Southern dated Horbury, 21 Sep. 1796, about the boiler and poor progress with the engine house; rough ground plan of the engine and boilers and elevation of the mill, dated 22 Sep. 1795 (by John Southern?). All the engine drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 236. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 6.
For Joshua Foster. Woollen mill, Horbury, near Wakefield.
See also: Engine Agreements, Incoming Correspondence. |