| Description | Bell Crank Engines (8 items).
6 horse power bell crank engine, with 16 inch cylinder, 2 foot stroke.
Reverse plan of the engine and boiler houses, longitudinal section of the engine and cross-section of the boiler, longitudinal section of the boiler, cross-section of the engine house; coloured side view, end view and plan of the spinning mill and the intedended engine house, showing water wheel, shafts, floors of buildings etc., with the engine roughly pencilled in; press copy plan and section of the proposed [?] engine and boiler houses and water wheel etc. (these drawings show a beam engine and presumably pre-date the reverse drawings; the plan has been crossed out). The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 585. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 256.
For James Louson. Flax spinning mill, Arbroath, Forfarshire.
Published references: Tann, p. 6 - plan and end view of the spinning mill etc.
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