| Description | Boat-Mounted Pumping and Dredging Engines (1 item).
1279d. Sampson Cazenove & Batard, "Mud Barge" Engine, Amsterdam (EH). Nov. 1819. 1 item.
8 horse power independent crank engine, with 17? inch cylinder, 2 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod.
Front view and plan of the engine and boiler - reverse drawing. This drawing bears a letter code.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 730.
For dredging, Amsterdam, Holland. Sampson Cazenove & Batard of Copthall Court, London were the agents. The engine was mounted in a boat and worked dredging machinery made by John Rennie. The Drawing Office Index describes this as a 10 horse engine, but it is listed as an 8 horse in Engine Order Book No. 9 and in the List of Engines made at Soho. The engine was omitted from the Catalogue of Old Engines.
See also: 4/95 (Engine Order Book No. 9)
Incoming Correspondence (from John Rennie). |