| Description | 20 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 23¾ inch cylinder, 5 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Includes reverse general view of the engine with section and outside view of boilers pasted on, coloured original and reverse plans and sections of the engine and boilers; reverse plans and sections of the engine and boiler houses, showing framing and chimney; cistern - reverse drawings; grate bars, dead plate, damper plate and frame, fire door etc. (all on one sheet, reverse); plan and sections of the boiler seating. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 257. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 40.
For Thomas Benyon and Benjamin Benyon and John Marshall of Leeds and Charles Bage of Shrewsbury. Flax mill, Shrewsbury. The firm later became Benyons Benyons & Bage, and they purchased a second engine for the flax mill in 1803 [see Portfolio 5/338].
See also: Engine Agreements, Incoming Correspondence. |