| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (6 items).
Single-acting ngine with 64 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, parallel motion, unequal cast iron beam.
Reverse plan and sections of the engine house and boilers and chimneys, plan of the tunnel (this drawing has a sketch of a retort for McConnel Kennedy on the back); outer end parallel motion - partially coloured reverse drawing; top end of pump rod [?] - marked "If wanted this is proposed for Easterby Hall & Co. by Murdock 1808" and "Taken from his chalk design at Foundry - W. C. [William Creighton]." All the drawings except the last item bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 596. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 294.
For Easterby Hall & Co. Blanchland, near Hexham, Northumberland.
See also: 4/93 (Engine Order Book No. 7).
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