| Description | Dock and Harbour Engines (9 items).
H: Single-acting engine, with 36 inch cylinder, 8 foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam.
-: 12 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 19? inch cylinder, 4 foot stroke, parallel motion. Engine formerly belonged to J. R. Pease & Co., Hull.
Coloured original and reverse engine house drawings for the 36 inch engine: longitudinal section of the engine house and boiler and drawings of the cistern (the cistern drawings were cut away from the original, which is marked "Condenser Cistern cut out for Smethwick"), sections of the engine house, ground plan of the engine house and boiler - this set of drawings was originally made for the London Dock Co. in Jan. 1801, but then re-used for the East India Dock Co. in Sep. 1803. The drawings show a wooden beam but note that the engine is to have an iron beam.
Boilers for both engines: reverse cross-section of "long boiler", reverse sections and plan of the boiler "for the E. I. Dock Co.'s engine purchased of J. R. Pease & Co." (this drawing is also marked "See Book 255 [now Portfolio 5/135] for copies of engine drawings J. R. Pease"); plans of "Boiler for Mortar Mill Engine which suppose belongs to E. I. D. Co." and "Boilers for the large East India Dock Co.". All the drawings except the last item bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 504 Catalogue of Old Engines p. 6, 148
For the East India Dock Co., Blackwall, London. Pumping engine and mortar mill [?] engine. The sun and planet engine was made for J. R. Pease & Co. in 1796. It was purchased from their successors Pease Wray & Trigg by John Rennie for the East India Dock Co. in 1803, at the same time as they ordered the 36 inch pumping engine. The drawings for the two engines may have been placed in the same book, No. 504. The East India Dock Co. sold the sun and planet engine to McMurdo & Hicks of Old Ford in 1810.
See also: Portfolio 5/135, Incoming Correspondence (from John Rennie).
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