| Description | Soho Foundry. (20 items).
1451. Soho Foundry - "Power Transmission". 1801, Not dated [1790s, 1800s?]. 20 items.
Plummer blocks, shaft supports, shafts, wheels and pulleys etc.
Plummer blocks, supports for shafts etc. including plummer blocks for the upper end of the diagonal shaft and the adjoining end of the long horizontal shaft, etc. - 4 drawings.
[These drawings may date from 1796-1797. Many of the parts are numbered with encircled numbers in red ink - a similar numbering scheme can be seen on the drawing of the boring mill design by Peter Ewart in Portfolio 5/1448.]
Plummer block "for the shaft that goes towards the boiler house".
Shafts for grinding stone. [A note of 1952 on the back dates this as 1824.]
Plummer block for inner end of fly shaft.
"Fly shaft for No. 1" and crank.
3 drawings of pullies, wheels and belts.
7 untitled drawings of plummer blocks, supports, gearing etc.
Sketch of various pulleys at Soho Foundry, with a sheet of sketches of pulley patterns by Abraham Storey attached, Dec. 1801.
Small sheet of sketches of pulley patterns at the Foundry dated "from Mr. Storey 1803?" [copies from the above?].
Drawings of plummer blocks, shafts etc. used for transmitting power to the various machines at Soho Foundry. |