| Description | 10 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 18 inch cylinder, 4 foot stroke.
Includes reverse general view and plan of the engine; framing; shafts, spur wheel, fly wheels; working gear, including one coloured drawing and one marked "Working gear for Messrs. Robinson's and Mr. Dobbs"; steam pipes, marked "Messrs. Robinson's & for Mr. Dobbs"; sections of boiler, seating, chimney, grates, fire place etc.; section of rolling mill showing original water wheel and rolls. Almost all the drawings are reverse copies.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 63. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 38.
For Thomas Dobbs. Lifford Rolling Mill, King's Norton, Worcestershire (now West Midlands). The engine was sold to Thomas Holloway in 1794.
See also: Portfolio 5/107, Engine Agreements, Incoming Correspondence.
Published references: Dickinson & Jenkins p. 164.
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