| Description | Dock and Harbour Engines (57 items).
Two 80 horse power crank engines, with 44 inch cylinders, 7 foot strokes, parallel motions, cast iron beams, cast iron connecting rods.
Initial designs and proposals: Coloured side views of pumping engine with a 54 inch cylinder working a 48 inch pump and a blowing engine with a 60 inch cylinder working a 70 inch blowing cylinder and air vault, Feb. 1827; coloured side view by William Creighton of 36 inch pump with 4 foot stroke, showing small beam, water levels etc., Mar. 1827; coloured plan by William Creighton of 2 engines with 8 foot strokes working 6 pumps, Apr. 1827; outline side view of 36 inch pump with 5 foot stroke.
Reverse drawings, Jun. 1827: plan of the engine and boiler houses, longitudinal section of engine house and a boiler, cross-section of the engine house, view of 2 of the pumps and suction pipe, cross-section of the boilers, plan of the pumps.
Drawings marked "Copied from Drawings sent by Mr. Telford Oct. 1827": "Plan of a Steam Engine for supplying water to the Lock" showing lock, engine house, basin etc., with sections of the coal vaults, discharging pipe and lock on the same sheet; sections of the lock, culverts, pipes etc. (These drawings were copied in the London office).
Reverse drawings made in the London office, Jan. 1828: plan of the engine and boiler houses, cross-section of the engine house, longitudinal section of the engine house and a boiler, cross-section of the boiler house and boilers, longitudinal section of a boiler showing the chimney.
Components etc.: part of rough sketch of a pump rod (this drawing was originally made for Glasgow Water Works, half of it has been torn away); section and plan of a pump and stop valve etc., pump beams and parallel motion etc., shafts and cranks and connecting rods etc. - original and reverse drawings; 3 sheets of rough sketches of the pump beams, plummer blocks, connecting rods etc.; undated list of wrought iron items required for connecting rods; suction and delivering pipes; plan of the pumps, shafts etc. - original and reverse copies (half of the original has been torn away); plan of the lock pump; plan and elevation of feeding pipes to boiler and tank; shafts [?]; plans and sections of the tank pump - original and reverse drawings; sketch of gearing, governor spindle etc.; coloured undated external elevation of engine house. Most of the drawings bear letter codes.
Plans of the docks etc.: "View of the Proposed St. Katherine's Docks" - engraving from the Gentleman's Magazine, Jan. 1826; plan of the proposed docks and surrounding area showing buildings to be demolished, new roads etc. (the engine house has been pencilled on); graph showing high and low water levels, sketched by William Creighton from Gregory's Mechanics; "Supposed plan of St. Katherine's dock, from plan of basin & the Pisgate prospect" - coloured sketch plan by William Creighton; sections of the entrance lock, lower and upper gates etc.
Also the following later items: Memorandum - "Report as to the application of Hydraulic Craneage at the St. Katherine's Docks", by William G. Armstrong for the Elswick Engine Works, Newcastle, 8 Mar. 1853 (5 sheets); pump valves - 2 sheets of coloured tracings, Aug. 1856; sections of boilers - original and reverse drawings, Mar. 1860; plan and sections of proposed boiler (on tracing paper), sections of boilers and apparatus, arrangement of steam and feed pipes (2 copies on tracing paper, blow-off pipes and brackets, fire bar, grate bar (original and reverse drawings), 1861; 2 large pencil drawings for proposed new nozzles (not dated).
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 823. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 150.
For St. Katherine's Docks, London. Pumping engines for the entrance lock.
See also: Incoming Correspondence, Portfolio 6/77.
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