| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (13 items).
Two single-acting engines, with 54 inch cylinders, 8 foot strokes, parallel motions, cast iron beams.
Reverse plan of the engine and boiler houses and pump pits showing both engines, longitudinal section of the engine house and a boiler, sections of the boiler house and boilers, sections of the engine house; sketches of steam and damper pipes, buckets and pump rod plates (coded KHB), lower end of pump rod etc. - these sketches were sent to the Foundry; sections of pump rods with number of plates needed; sheet of notes on the second engine marked "copy of memorandum made at Heathfield"; sketch plan of the pump pits marked "Mr. Waring 17 Mar. 1812"; sketch elevations of engine house "as drawn" and "as built (nearly)"; sketch plan of the engine and boiler houses and pump pits, showing canal, with chicken pencilled in at top; press copy sketch of steam and feed pipes marked "for George Taylor" (stuck on the reverse of the sketch plan. The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 653. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 136.
For the Birmingham Canal Co. Caponfield Pit pumping station. One of these engines was moved to Ocker Hill in 1825.
See also: 4/94 (Engine Order Book No. 8).
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