| Description | 12 horse power sun & planet engine, with 19? inch cylinder, 4 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Includes coloured original and reverse general view of the engine showing pump beam and pump, coloured original and reverse plans and sections of the engine, boiler and engine house showing dashing wheels (not all the reverse copies have their coloured originals); framing - reverse drawing; boiler - coloured original and reverse plans and sections; reverse plans and sections of the engine house; parallel motion - original coloured and reverse copy; working gear - coloured original and coloured reverse front and side views marked "Same as Sir Richard Arkwright's"; cistern - reverse drawing marked "Same as Sir R. Arkwright's"; pump suction pipe and cast iron cross for carrying the pump - reverse; reverse plans and elevations of the dashing wheels and framing, plan of the dashing wheel house; small scrap of calculations. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 132. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 30.
For Joseph Baker, Thomas Cooper, Kempe Brydges and Christopher Teesdale. Bleaching works, Raikes, near Bolton, Lancashire - the engine pumped water and drove dashing wheels. The firm was formerly Baker & Cooper, but changed to Joseph Baker & Co. circa Jun. 1790, while the engine was under construction. In 1793 the bleaching works passed to John Horridge.
See also: Incoming Correspondence.
Published references: Tann, p. 50 - plan of dashing wheel house, side view of dashing wheels.
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