| Description | 20 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 23¾ inch cylinder, 5 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod.
Reverse general view of the engine and boilers, coloured original and reverse plan of the engine and boilers; reverse plan and sections of the engine and boiler houses and framing (the longitudinal section of the house shows the engine with a wooden beam, and one of the drawings is on the back of an unfinished watercolour of a folly [?]); sketch plan and section of the engine house dated 23 Jun. 1802. All the drawings except the last item bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 456. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 4.
For James Forbes & Co. Cotton mill, Aberdeen. The Catalogue of Old Engines gives the name of the firm as James Forbes Low & Co. |