| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (23 items).
594. Buarcos Mine, Portugal (N). Jul., Aug., Oct. 1803, Jan., Mar. 1804. 23 items.
Engine with 44 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Reverse general view of the engine and boilers, plan of the foundations of the engine and boiler house, ground plan of the engine and boiler, plan of the engine and boilers, sections of the engine and engine house, external elevation of the engine and boiler houses, plan of the engine house at spring beam level, longitudinal sections of the boiler and boiler house, external side elevation of the boiler house, end view of the boilers and boiler house, cross-section of boiler and boiler house; reverse section of the pump pit, pitwork etc.; clack seat piece - original and partially coloured reverse drawing (the reverse drawing was made in 1811 to a smaller scale than the original); parallel motion - reverse drawing; working gear - reverse front and side views (also marked "IHV Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal"); ends of diagonals, cross-section and side view and plan of beam ends, gudgeons, parts of air pump parallel motion, air pump rod and joints, parts of pump rod etc. - partially coloured reverse drawings (later copies?); sketch of pump rods dated 1803; list of materials forwarded to Richard Southern & Pearson, Hull, 1804, with a second copy of the list; "List of Drawings for Buarcos Engine" - press copy, with manuscript copy attached marked "No. 1" - on the back of the manuscript copy is a list of articles of woodwork sent with the engine materials marked "No. 3"; press copy memorandum "Dimensions of the principal woodworks to be provided upon the spot for Buarcos Engine", marked "No. 2" and "original of this was sent with the drawings." The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio (Book) 503. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 292.
For Buarcos Mine, Portugal. The agents were Dios Santos & Co. of London.
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