| Description | Crank Engines. (12 items).
439. Meux Reid & Co., London, No. 2 (KK). Feb., Jul. 1811, Aug.-Oct. 1869, Jun. 1879. 12 items.
32 horse power double-acting crank engine, with 29 inch cylinder, 6 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod.
Reverse plan and sections of the engine and boiler houses and boiler; sketch section of the brewhouse with engine pencilled in, marked "house built for Hornblower & Co.'s engine; sketch plan of the engine house and boiler, stable and part of brewhouse; plan of the premises showing hop backs, horse wheels [?], mash tuns, boiler of first engine, new engine pencilled in etc.; plan of the engine, boiler and engine house marked "Plan of the Situation of 32 horse engine Messrs. Meux Reid & Co. No. 2, 1811". The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Also tracing of shaft, Aug. 1869; drawing of new crank, Sep. 1869; pencil sketch of new and old brasses, Oct. 1869; blueprint of new valves and nozzles, Jun. 1879. All the drawings except that of the brasses bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 646. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 86.
For Meux Reid & Co. Brewery, Liquor Pond St., London. By 1844 the firm was A. Reid & Co., and by 1869 W. Reid & Co. For their first engine see Portfolio 5/417, and for pump work purchased in 1844 see Portfolio 5/631.
See also: 4/94 (Engine Order Book No. 8). |