| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (20 items).
15 horse power independent crank engine, with 23 inch cylinder, 3 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod.
Coloured plan and elevation of the engine (not coded); reverse transverse section of the engine and boiler houses marked "Wrong - see another set of drawings made 17 Feb. 1845", section through the scoop wheel; sections and plan of the boiler - coloured original and coloured reverse drawings; diagonal frame, boiler apparatus and waste water and injection pipes etc. - partially coloured original and partially coloured reverse drawings; longitudinal section and plans of the engine platform - partially coloured original drawing; Feb. 1845 drawings - reverse plan of the engine platform and tunnel, plan of the engine and boiler houses etc., transverse section of the engine and boiler houses, plan and sections of the scoop wheel, section through the scoop wheel race, longitudinal sections of the engine and boiler house, external elevations of the engine and boiler houses; pencil sketch of crank shaft and fly wheel; draft [?] plan and section of the engine platform; sketch plan showing the river Ouse, engine drain, line of railway and proposed site of the engine house.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 957. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 294.
For the Commissioners of Thetford Drainage, Norfolk.
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