| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (12 items).
6 horse engine proposed for the scheme. Engine never built.
Elevation and plan of scheme for returning water onto an upper level where 2 canals join, showing engine, cistern and scoop wheel (not dated); side view of engine, side view of scoop wheel, cross-section and plan of engine and boiler houses and wheel (4 drawings on 1 sheet) dated 18 Feb. 1815; sheet of notes by James Watt on the engine and pump required, dated Mar. 1815, with a sketch of a pump and cistern; letter from John Houghton to John Southern dated Birmingham, 26 May 1815; plan of the bar lock dated 24 Apr. 1816, marked "with Mr. Houghton's letter" and "Copied from Mr. Bagot's plan"; press copy sketch plan of engine and boiler houses, engine keeper's room, office etc. dated 29 Apr. 1816; sketch section of an engine and pump dated May 1816; ground plan of the bar and basin showing neighbouring timber yards, school land etc., with proposed lock and wharf extensions pencilled in (not dated); ground plan of the school land with proposed engine and wheel and road pencilled in (not dated); sketch plan of the bar and proposed lock and enlargement of Danks & Co.'s docks (not dated); sketch plan showing engine, wheel, enlargement of Danks & Co.'s dock, new street (not dated); long sheet of sections of canal (not dated or titled, but marked "Birmingham Canal Co. New Lock etc. at the Bar" on the back.
For the Birmingham Canal Co. Engine proposed to pump water from the Birmingham to the Worcester Canal.
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