| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (12 items).
D3: Single-acting engine, with 36 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, parallel motion. Engine formerly belonged to the West India Dock Co.
B: Single-acting engine, with 42 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam.
Reverse longitudinal section of the engine house and pump and cross-section of 3 boilers, plan of the engine house and pump well and boilers showing situation of both engines, sections of the engine house, longitudinal section of boiler (marked "This fair copy made Sep. 1827") - some of these drawings have crossed out plans of the Royal Mint on the reverse; pump for first engine - original and reverse drawings; plan of the site of the engine house and section of the ground slope, marked "from Mr. Rennie"; partially coloured plan of the engine house showing boilers, pump well and cylinder of first engine (from Rennie?); partially coloured section of the engine house, boilers, pump and lander marked "brought by Mr. Murdock from Mr. Rennie, 30 Jan. 1810"; partially coloured section of pump, lander and summit pool, marked "Kennet & Avon 1810"; press copy section of a pump. The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 578. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 136, 148.
For the Kennet & Avon Canal Co. Crofton, between Burbage and Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire. Note that the List of Engines made at Soho lists these engines under Berkshire. The first engine, coded D3 when originally made in 1801, was purchased from the West India Dock Co. in 1802 and erected in 1808. The second engine was ordered in 1810. The second engine still exists on the Crofton site.
See also: 4/93 (Engine Order Book No. 7), Incoming Correspondence (from John Rennie). |