| Description | Drawings of Mills, Other Firm’s Products etc. (50 items).
1467. Other Firms' Products. 1810-1869, not dated. 50 items.
Boilers and Apparatus:
Pencil sketches of boiler for a steam apparatus by Messrs. Widmer, 21 Dec. 1810.
Gregson's Patent Furnace - sheet of printed drawings, Feb. 1817, and memorandum of trial, 29 Apr. 1817.
The Franklin Patent Duplex Generators - printed illustration and description sent to Boulton Watt & Co. in London by the patentee, Major John McCurdy, 19 May 1826 (2 copies, one coloured).
"Sketch of a boiler made by the Butterley Company described by Mr. Bennett [William Bennett]", 1832.
Messrs. Keens' boiler as made by Marshall - coloured drawing, Feb. 1839.
"A plan for the consumption of smoke without the addition of cold air or steam, as practised by Satterthwaite & Barrow at their cotton work, Queen Street, Lancaster" - sheet of partially coloured drawings and notes by William Bennett [?], 10-15 Apr. 1843.
Statement and Reports of A Series of Experiments, in Confirmation of a Discovery for Removing and Preventing the Incrustation upon the Boilers of Locomotives and Stationary Steam Engines, by Messrs. Pinniger and Westmacott - printed leaflet, London, circa 1844.
Meade's Patent Hydrostatic Boiler - printed leaflet, circa 1846.
Purified Gas & Steam Boiler and Furnaces - printed description and drawings dated 39 Montague Square, London, 20 Jun. 1853 (sent to James Watt & Co. by H. M. Jefrey, H.M.S. Impregnable, Devonport, 10 Aug. 1853).
Testing of the Retort Steam Boiler patented by Dunn Hattersley & Co. - printed leaflet sent by Thomas Deakin, Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton, 31 Jan. 1856.
Ateliers de Construction D'Oullins, Chaudières à Vapeur avec foyer fumivore, système de MM. Molinos et Pronnier - printed leaflet sent by Carleton Baynes, 27 Oct. 1858.
Begg's Patented Furnace for economizing fuel and the prevention of smoke - printed sheet of drawings marked "Applied to Truman Hanbury & Co.'s boiler 1866".
Wright's Patent Steam Boilers, Goscote Works, near Walsall - printed leaflet, not dated.
Price & Dawes's Patent Economic Smoke-consuming Steam Boiler - printed leaflet, not dated.
Turner & Hardwick's Patent Transverse Flue Boiler manufactured by Thomas Piggott, Spring Hill, Birmingham - sheet of printed drawings, not dated.
Chanter & Annan's Patent Reciprocating Fire Bars and Smoke Preventing Fire Door - partially coloured tracing and copy, not dated.
Elevation and plan of a boiler - tracing, not dated.
Set of engravings of a boiler [patent drawings?] - not dated (incomplete).
Boat Boilers and Apparatus:
Sketch of the boiler of the Chancellor Livingston by William Creighton, marked "Report of M. Marestier, Jan. 1823".
Sketch of Henry Maudslay's boiler for the Navy Lightning by William Creighton, from information from James Brown, 1 Dec. 1823.
George Selby Jr. - Patent Marine Boiler - sheet of printed drawings, not dated [marked "60 H"].
Patent High Pressure Marine Boilers, Horton Son & Kendrick, Southwark, London - sheet of printed drawings, not dated.
Expansion gearing of H.M.S. Narcissus, as fitted by Messrs. Ravenhill Salkeld & Co., not dated.
Gas Lighting:
The Franklin Patent Gas Regulator - 2 printed leaflets, not dated [one is marked "William Deane, Acorn Hotel, Temple Street"].
Judkins' Improved Gas Regulator - printed leaflet, not dated [circa 1857 - this appears to be identical to Esplin's Regulator below].
Charles Esplin's Gas Regulator - printed leaflet, not dated [circa 1858, marked "Presented by S. Dudgeon, 42 Lichfield St., Wolverhampton"].
Machine Tools:
3 cwt. double action steam hammer by Thwaites & Carbutt, Vulcan Iron Works, Bradford - tracing, 27 Dec. 1861.
Eastwood & Lloyd's Patent Hydraulic Shears - coloured drawing, not dated.
James Nasmyth's Patent Steam Pile Driver - tracing by T. F. Burgess, not dated.
Other Machinery:
Barclay's Steam Engine, Letters patent 1853 - printed sketch and description, Montrose, 1854.
10 foot live ring turntable - coloured tracing marked "Copied from tracing sent here by Flower & Co., June 1856".
Plan and section of a turntable - partially coloured tracing marked "Copied from tracing sent here by P. W. Flower & Co., June 1856".
Roller Turntables manufactured by Lloyds Fosters & Co., Wednesbury - printed sections and plan [not dated]. 2 copies.
Rams for seed crushing - 2 sheets of tracings made from drawings by John Marshall C.E. of the Seed Crushing (Trial) Co. Ltd.
Tracing of turbine [?], Great Western Engine Works, George Bennet, not dated.
Midland Counties Timber Co.'s Steaming Apparatus No. 2 - 2 sheets of tracings, not dated.
Instruments:
Salter's Improved Spring Balance - printed drawing, not dated.
Components:
Bevil, spur and mitre gear, Peel Williams & Co., Shudehill Pits and Soho Foundry, Manchester - printed list, 4 Sep. 1810.
Bevil, spur and mitre gear, Peel Williams & Co., Shudehill Pits and Soho Foundry, Manchester - printed list, 31 May 1812.
"Barker's Improved Elastic Metallic Piston, Newton Moor, Hyde, near Manchester" - shaded tracing, Feb. 1861.
Double grease cup sketched from one sent by Mr. Jennens 1 Nov. 1865, with prices.
Sluice valves [?] by Edward Blakemore - partially coloured drawing marked "…received from E. Blakemore & forwarded to London St. with Estimate for sluices for Pest W. W., 24 Mar. 1868."
Prices for cog wheels etc., P. R. Jackson & Co., Salford Rolling Mills, Manchester - letter with 3 printed sheets attached, 1 Jul. 1869.
Price & Dawes's Patent Adjustable Expansive Gear, not dated.
Mazelin's Patent Equilibrium Slide Valve, represented by Mr. C. A. Holm, 7 King William Street, London - partially coloured tracing, not dated. |