| Description | Crank Engines. (23 items).
477. John & Nathaniel Philips & Co., Tean Hall (VC). Aug. 1822, Jun., Jul. 1866, Jan. 1867, Jul., Aug., Oct. 1870. 23 items.
40 horse power double-acting crank engine, with 32½ inch cylinder, 6 foot stroke, parallel motion, [cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod].
Coloured reverse plan and sections of the engine and boiler houses and 3 boilers, plan of the tunnel; 3 small undated sheets of pencil sketches of boilers, cylinder etc. The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Also drawings for new working gear, 1866: working gear components, Jun. 1866; general arrangement of driving gear for new nozzles, Jul. 1866; exhaust cam, working gear cam, working gear crank, piston rod, working gear shaft, air pump rod - small undated and uncoded drawings from 1866 [?].
Also drawings for new boilers, 1867 and 1870: pencil sections and plan of 2 proposed new boilers, Jan. 1867; partly coloured original and coloured reverse plan and sections of the new boilers, with tracing of steam pipe for 2nd boiler, Jul. 1870; tracing of plan of boiler house; tracing of section of boiler house wall and pipe; sketch of steam and feed pipes sent by William Turner.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 750. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 106.
For John & Nathaniel Philips & Co. Tean Hall, near Cheadle, Staffordshire. The firm also bought a 14 horse independent engine in 1821 [see Portfolio 5/981].
See also: Incoming Correspondence. |