| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (8 items).
Single-acting engine with 50 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam.
Reverse plan of the engine house and boiler and shaft, drawings of the cistern, longitudinal section of the engine and boiler houses and shaft, cross-section of the engine and boiler houses, outside view of engine house lever wall, longitudinal section of boiler; 3 large-scale drawings of working gear components. The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 630. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 294.
For Thomas Lumley and partners, the adventurers in the East Layton copper mines, near Richmond, Yorkshire. The engine was sold to George and John Dixon of Cockfield Colliery near Darlington in Jun. 1813.
See also: 4/93 (Engine Order Book No. 7).
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