| Description | Steam Boat Engines (4 items).
1267. Carlisle & Liverpool Steam Packet Co. Steamers Solway (VQ & VR) and Cumberland (VZ & UA). Aug. 1823, May, Jul. 1825. 4 items.
Two sets of two 40 horse power side lever boat engines, with 35½ inch cylinders, 3½ foot strokes.
Cross-section of boat and engines, plan of engine sleepers - reverse drawings; section and plan of the boiler - partially coloured reverse drawing (this drawing was made in Aug. 1823, but the design was altered in 1825 for these steamers and also the Dart); section and plan of the boiler - partially coloured reverse drawing (this drawing was also used for a boiler for the Dart). The boiler drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 803. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 314.
For the Carlisle & Liverpool Steam Packet Co. Henry Hazleton allocated separate portfolio numbers to both boats, despite the fact that they did not have separate drawings; Solway was Portfolio 5/1267, and Cumberland was Portfolio 5/1268. |