| Description | 10 horse power single-acting sun & planet engine, with 24 inch cylinder, 6 foot stroke, parallel motion. Made double-acting 1797 [?]. Power increased to 20 horses 1798, and to 26 horses 1817.
Includes reverse general view of the engine marked "From John Calvert's", plans and sections of the engine and boiler; parallel motion; working gear - coloured reverse plans and front and side views marked "From Calvert (John)"; connection to the millwork; plans and sections of the brewery showing floors, shafts, horse wheels, coppers, mash tuns, coolers, chimneys, mill loft with load bins etc. (some of these drawings show re-alignment of brewery to accommodate the engine); memorandum of proprietors' names; letter from Gyfford & Co. dated London, 28 Nov. 1787.
2 drawings from the 1798 alterations: coloured original general view and plan of the engine; working gear - coloured original front and side views. All bear letter codes.
Also 2 items from the 1817 alterations: sheet of sketches by William Murdock dated 9 Jan. 1817, docketed "Dimensions of Combe Delafield's engine for making new parts"; sketch of cylinder and notes on the new parts, Feb. 1817.
Original Book (Portfolio) No. 95. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 26, 206.
For Gyfford & Co. Often spelt "Gifford". Brewery, Castle St., Long Acre, St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London. The partners in 1787 were George Shum Jr. of Bedford Square, who signed the engine agreement, Harvey Christian Combe, Joseph Delafield, Edmund Hammond and William Packer. The memorandum in this portfolio describes them as the "Proprietors of Gyfford's brewhouse." The firm were still trading as Gyfford & Co. in Jul. 1798. The firm later became Combe Delafield & Co. In 1833 the firm bought a 30 horse boat engine for land which was erected close to this engine [see Portfolio 5/1048], and in the early 1850s they bought a "Cornish" boiler for this engine, the drawings for which were place with those for the 30 horse engine.
See also: Portfolio 5/1048, Engine Agreements, Incoming Correspondence.
Published references: Tann, p. 102 - East-West section of the brewery. |