| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (5 items).
Two 14 horse power independent crank engines, with 22 inch cylinders, 3 foot strokes, parallel motions, cast iron beams, cast iron connecting rods.
Reverse section and plan of the cistern, pumps, wheels and shafts etc. (partially coloured), reverse plan of the engine and boiler houses, plan of the pumps and well etc., longitudinal section of the engine house and pump well, longitudinal section of boiler, cross-sections of the engine house, cross-section of the boiler; coloured plan and sections of the engines and pumps marked "sent by Mr. Forbes [William Nairn Forbes] for Rickards Macintosh & Co. 14 horse engines & pumps for irrigation in Bengal". All the drawings except the last item bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 812. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 294.
For irrigation scheme, Calcutta, India, ordered by Rickards Macintosh & Co. of London.
See also: 4/95 (Engine Order Book No. 9). |