| Description | Crank Engines. (4 items).
279. Robert Reid Cunningham, Saltcoats (C). Apr., Jul. 1800. 4 items.
6 horse power double-acting crank engine, with 14¾ inch cylinder, 3 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron connecting rod.
Reverse general view of the engine, reverse plans and sections of the engine and boiler showing winding barrel (5 drawings on 1 sheet); reverse plan and sections of the engine house, framing and cistern showing winding barrel; planes for winding ropes, marked "pattern made but not cast from"; reverse plan of the engine house showing planes for winding ropes. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 373. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 74.
For Robert Reid Cunningham. Colliery winding engine, Saltcoats, Ayrshire. The method of winding the ropes appears to have changed from a winding barrel to two 7 foot 6 inch planes circa Jul. 1800. |