| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (14 items).
572. Walker Colliery, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, No. 2. Aug., Nov. 1795. 11 items.
Single-acting engine, with 63 inch cylinder, 8½ foot stroke, chain connection, unequal beam.
Reverse general section of the engine, plans and sections of the engine and boiler; plan and sections of the air pump, plan and section of the air pump and condenser (partially coloured, marked "This fair copy made Jun. 1827"), condenser, perpendicular steam pipe, eduction pipe, blowing pipe, plan of the beam - reverse drawings; coloured ground plan of the former engine house showing situation of 2 atmospheric engines with 72 and 74 inch cylinders, boilers, chimneys, engine pits etc.; cross-section of the east engine house showing arrangement of atmospheric engine, boilers, pumps, cistern etc. All the drawings except the last 2 items bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 240. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 290.
For the proprietors of Walker Colliery - Charles Brandling of Gosforth House (executor of the late William Ord of Fenham), William Peareth of Usworth House, Durham and Henry Utcirk Reay of Burnhall, Durham. For the first, third and fourth engines for Walker Colliery, which were winding engines, see Portfolio 5/169.
See also: Incoming Correspondence (from Thomas Barnes, Charles Brandling). |