| Description | 30 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 28 inch cylinder, 6 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Includes reverse general view of the engine, reverse plans and sections of the engine and boilers; framing - direct copies, one of which is marked "Exactly the same as ABCH"; reverse sections of the engine house; parallel motion - reverse drawing marked "See BR" (drawing for John Cartwright's engine); working gear - coloured reverse front and side views marked "See drawing for ABCH); cistern -reverse drawings marked "The very same as ABCH"; fly wheel, connecting rod, grate bars, damper plate and frame (all reverse); bearer bars; framing for secondary connecting link dated 25 Jan. 1794. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 156. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 54.
For Robert Denison of Nottingham and Samuel Hamer Oates of Leeds. Cotton mill, Nottingham. By 1801 the firm had become Oates Stephens & Co [alternatively "Oats Stephenson & Co.'s" - see MS 3147/3/276/44]. The change possibly took place in 1794, when Denison told Boulton & Watt that the "deluded populace" had burnt the mill down and that he had sent his son to America with a possible view to the whole family following. According to the Catalogue of Old Engines the engine burnt down in Dec. 1802. [cf. MS 3147/3/276/44]
See also: Engine Agreements, Incoming Correspondence. |