| Description | 30 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 28 inch cylinder, 6 foot stroke [?], parallel motion.
Includes coloured original and reverse general view of the engine, coloured original and reverse plans and sections of the engine and boilers showing connection to the mill (the reverse drawings are marked "same as ABCH" or "see ABCH"); framing - reverse drawings marked "see BX" (Drawing for Maj. John Cartwright's engine); reverse plans and sections of the engine house; parallel motion - coloured original and reverse copy; working gear - coloured original and reverse front and side views marked "Exactly the same as for ABCH"; cistern - reverse copy. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 147.
For James Dicker Budd, William Goadsby and company. Union cotton [?] mill, Liverpool. This engine was virtually identical to that ordered by Peter Atherton for the Salford Twist Co. (see Portfolio 5/63 above), and Atherton often acted as a go-between while the details of the engine were being planned. By Dec. 1795 Union Mill was being operated by John and Robert Kirkman, who may have been part of the original firm. By Oct. 1796 the Kirkmans owed money both to Boulton & Watt and Peter Atherton. Atherton told Boulton & Watt that of the other members of the firm, Budd had been declared bankrupt, Goadsby was in America and probably poor, and a Mr. Allingham was unable to pay. This engine was omitted from the Catalogue of Old Engines.
See also: Incoming Correspondence. |