| Description | Crank Engines. (14 items).
466. Thomas Orrell, Stalybridge (CC). Apr., May, Sep. 1819, Jan., Mar., Jul. 1836. 14 items.
36 horse power crank engine, with 30¾ inch cylinder, 6 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod.
Also fire extinguishing apparatus.
Reverse plan and sections of the engine and boiler houses and boiler; pencil sketch of various parts including frame for front of fire place, pipes etc.; coloured plan and sections of the engine house and boilers sent to Boulton Watt & Co.
Also the following drawings of extinguishing apparatus: plan and sections of extinguishing pump and air vessel - reverse drawings, one of which is also marked "Houldsworth"; sketches of suction and air vessels and pipes sent to Soho, 21 Sep. 1819; coloured plan and section showing suction and air vessels on the engine; coloured section of the mill showing floors, pipes, cistern etc. and plan of the staircase.
Drawings of new working gear etc. for B. Kirk, 1836: eccentric rod, shaft and crank - reverse drawing; part of lower nozzle of working gear "for 36 horse with 53 horse nozzles"; swivel gudgeons. The reverse drawings only bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 714. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 94.
For Thomas Orrell. Textile mill, Stalybridge. The engine was actually made in 1814, but not appropriated to Orrell until 1818. Engine Order Book No. 8 refers to this engine as "Thomas Orrell, Stayleybridge (No. 2)", so the engine was probably for the same mill as the sun and planet engine ordered by John Orrell in 1797 [see Portfolio 5/146]. By 1836 this engine was owned by Benjamin Kirk. See Portfolio 5/513 for the second 36 horse engine installed by Kirk.
See also: 4/94 (Engine Order Book No. 8). |