| Description | 8 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 16 inch cylinder, 4 foot stroke, parallel motion. New boiler added 1794.
Includes coloured original and reverse general view of the engine, coloured original and reverse ground plan showing connection to the mill, reverse sections and plan of the engine, boiler and engine house; boiler - coloured original and reverse plans, sections and front view showing seating and fireplace; framing - reverse copy; parallel motion - coloured original and reverse copy marked "J. W. dil."; working gear - coloured reverse plans, coloured original and reverse front and side view marked "from Mr. James"; rough ground plan of the premises showing upright shaft.
1 item dates from 1794 - a sheet of reverse plans and sections of the new boiler, coded BTD.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 106. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 52, 294.
For Benjamin & Charles Morley. Cotton mill, Nottingham. The engine may have also been applied to the Morleys' earthenware manufactory, as it was more powerful than they needed for the cotton mill. Charles Morley looked to sell the engine in Aug. 1798. According to the Catalogue of Old Engines it was purchased by Wood & Hodgkinson in 1799.
[Note that the coloured original drawing of the working gear was purchased by the Public Libraries Committee in 1930. It was numbered as part of the miscellaneous portfolio 1347 and placed in the Steam Boat Box due to its size.]
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