| Description | Pumping and Canal Engines. (4 items).
Two 8 horse power crank engines, with 16 inch cylinders, 4 foot strokes, parallel motions, A frames.
Reverse general view of the engine, plan of the engine and boiler (both these drawings are marked "…one of the engines for Mr. Rennie the Lancaster Canal"); elevations and plans of the framing - partially coloured reverse drawing, marked "Mr. Rennie's engines"; plan of the boiler. All the drawings except that of the boiler bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 192. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 134.
For the Lancaster Canal Co., ordered by John Rennie. The Lancaster Canal Co. ordered two 8 horse power engines in 1792. According to the List of Engines made at Soho, one engine worked a pump of 24½ inches diameter and a 26 foot high lift. The other 8 horse engine was sold to the Crinan Canal in 1794. Only one of the engines is illustrated in this portfolio.
See also: Portfolio 5/571, Incoming Correspondence (from John Rennie).
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