| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (16 items).
593. Plas Mostyn Colliery (T). Jun-Aug., Oct. 1803, Jan.-Mar. 1804. 16 items.
Engine with 36 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, parallel motion, unequal cast iron beam.
Coloured original and reverse general view of the engine and boiler, plan of the engine and boilers, plan and sections of the cylinder platform, drawings of the cistern; reverse plans and sections of the engine house and boilers (the longitudinal section of the engine house shows the engine with a wooden beam, and is marked "To have an iron beam"); beam - reverse drawing; working gear - reverse front and side views; coloured plan and section of the engine house, boilers and chimneys sent by Robert Burton, 18 Aug. 1803; letter from William Wilkinson to John Southern dated Minera, 9 Feb. 1804, with plan and section of the proposed pumps; original portfolio cover, with a letter from William Wilkinson stuck inside, dated Plasgrono, 14 Jun. 1803 with a sketch of the ground of the colliery. The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 498. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 292.
For Wilkinson Burton & Co. - William Wilkinson, Robert Burton and partners. Plas Mostyn Colliery, Denbighshire, North Wales.
See also: Incoming Correspondence.
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