| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (15 items).
Two single-acting engines, with 48 inch cylinders, 8 foot strokes, parallel motions, [cast iron beams].
Reverse plan of the engine and boiler houses, longitudinal section of the engine house and pump well, transverse sections of the engine house, longitudinal section of the boiler, transverse section of the boiler house; coloured reverse external elevations of the engine and boiler houses; coloured draft [?] of ground plan of engine and boiler houses (drawing not marked); section of the pump - original and press copy (attached to the original is another small drawing, and a note and sketch about the lander pipe from Gilbert Hamilton to Richard Lewis); side and front view of arrangement of engine showing columns, centre lines etc. - press copy; pump rods - original and reverse drawings; press copy list of the stones, press copy letter from Gilbert Hamilton to Mr. Bourne, dated Soho, 14 Jul. 1835, with a list of the stones. The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 889. Catalogue Of Old Engines p. 138.
For the Birmingham Canal Co. Rotton Park reservoir, Birmingham. Engine YU was actually made in 1818 for the Glasgow Water Works, but it was never delivered to them. It was appropriated to to the Birmingham Canal Co. in Feb. 1836.
See also: 4/95 (Engine Order Book No. 9).
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