| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (12 items).
12 horse power single-acting engine, with 36 inch cylinder, 3½ foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam.
Reverse plan and sections of the engine and boiler houses showing boiler and pump, view of the cylinder platform, small plan showing the situation of the engine (5 drawings on 1 sheet); pump - partially coloured original drawing; cylinder, nozzles and working gear - partially coloured original and reverse drawings; working gear - reverse front view; plan of the air pump, cylinder and condenser - original and reverse drawings; parallel motion - reverse drawings; press copy plans and sections of proposed engine house layouts, marked "Mr. van Liender May 1807"; press copy sketches of situation of hot water pump, air vessel, parallel motion, boiler feed apparatus, marked "with our letter of 6 Jul. 1807"; press copy sketch plan of the engine, boiler and pump, side view of damper and feed pipe, marked "with our letter 7 Oct. 1807"; coloured plan and sections of the proposed engine, with captions in Dutch (translations have been pencilled on), dated Jul. 1806. All the drawings except the last 4 items bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 561. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 136.
For the Katwyk & Rhine Canal, ordered by John Daniel Huichelbos van Liender. Katwyk-on-Zee, Holland.
See also: Incoming Correspondence (from van Liender).
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