| Description | 10 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 17 inch cylinder, 4 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Includes reverse general view of the engine, plan (both these drawings feature annotations and letter codes from Oct. 1802), front views of engine and boiler showing engine house and chimney, plan of cylinder and boiler, plan of foundation work, sections and plans of boiler and seating; parallel motion, dated 3 Jan. 1787 and marked "from Wilks"; working gear - reverse coloured plans and front and side views; fly wheel, steam pipe; plan of the mill by the millwright Joseph Moyser; sheet of notes and calculations; press copy of erection instructions sent with the original drawings.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 80. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 6.
For Richard Howard (d. 1787), his son John, and Thomas Houghton of Hull. Wilmington paper mill, Sutton in Holderness. The business was taken over by Thomas Lee circa 1789. He added a new boiler. In Aug. 1802 the engine was sold to T. & H. Lodge of Halifax.
See also: Engine Agreements, Incoming Correspondence.
Published references: R. Hills, "James Watt and Paper and Papermaking", in The Exeter Papers, Studies in British Paper History, Vol. II (ed. P. Bower, The British Association of Paper Historians/The Plough Press, 2001), pp. 65-73 - plan of the mill, ground plan of the engine. |