| Description | 26 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 26ΒΌ inch cylinder, 6 foot stroke, parallel motion. Second boiler added 1794. Crank added to work a pump, 1807.
Includes coloured original and reverse general view of the engine, original coloured and reverse front view of the engine and boiler, reverse plans the engine and boiler including one with second boiler of 1794 added; framing - direct copies; original and reverse plans and sections of the engine house, some showing location of water wheel; parallel motion - coloured original and reverse drawings; working gear - coloured original and reverse front and side views; plan of the boiler; cistern - reverse drawings marked "Note - see AAB 146" (drawing for Peter Atherton's 30 horse engine); wheels - large sheet of reverse drawings of wheels, 6 sketch sections of bevel and spur wheels; sketch of suction pipe; 2 rough sketch plans of the engine house; 2 sheets of calculations for the shafts and wheels.
Also reverse plan and section of second boiler, Sep. 1794; sketch plan of mill showing water course, shafts and water wheel, Sep. 1800; 3 drawings showing crank shaft and forcing pump, Oct. 1807. All the engine drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 158. Catalogue Of Old Engines p. 58.
For Peel Yates & Co. Cotton mill, Burton upon Trent.
See also: Engine Agreements, Incoming Correspondence. |