| Description | 14 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 20 inch cylinder, 5 foot stroke, parallel motion. 20 horse cylinder added, 1793.
Includes reverse general view of the engine, plan, section of the framing and boiler seating; working gear - coloured reverse plans and front and side views dated 1 Jan. 1787; shafts and plummer blocks; sheet of calculations including references to Whitbread's engine; plan and elevation of the building, showing millwork, dated 20 Sep. 1786.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 79. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 18.
For Bell Gosse & Benwell. Distillery, Battersea, London. The firm was Gosse & Benwell by 1790, and later became Benwell & Waymouth, and then Watson Waymouth & Co.
See also: Incoming Correspondence.
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