| Description | Crank Engines. (5 items).
414. The Stone Pipe Co., Guiting (EE & QQ). May 1809, Nov. 1833. 5 items.
Two 14 horse power double-acting crank engines, with 20¾ inch cylinders, 4 foot strokes, parallel motions, cast iron beams, cast iron connecting rods.
Reverse plan and sections of the engine and boiler houses and boilers; rough sketch plan showing premises and 2 engine houses [?]. All the drawings except the last item bear letter codes.
Also drawing of 20 horse cylinder for Stanton & Sons, Nov. 1833.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 604. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 110.
For The Stone Pipe Co. Stone pipe manufactory, Guiting [? - the List of Engines made at Soho gives the location as "Guyton, near Stow on the Wold"], Gloucestershire. The firm ordered two 14 horse engines, but only one is represented in these drawings. By 1830 one of the engines had been sold to William Stanton & Sons of Stafford Mills, near Stroud. In 1833 Stanton & Sons added a 20 horse power (23¾ inch) cylinder with 30 horse nozzles to the engine that they bought.
See also: 4/93 (Engine Order Book No. 7), Incoming Correspondence (from Stanton & Sons). |