| Description | Bell Crank Engines (5 items).
Various items for bell crank engines on sugar plantations.
Also water wheel.
High pressure cylinder and force pump gearing for a bell crank engine, Apr. 1845 - partially shaded original drawing; cranks, shafts, cold water pumps etc. for 6 horse bell crank engine, Dry River Estate, Jul. 1846 - partially coloured reverse drawing; pinion and wheel for Spring Estate - partially coloured original and reverse drawings; plans, sections etc. of 35 foot diameter water wheel - coloured original drawing. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 662. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 233.
For A. Stewart & Westmoreland, London. A. Stewart & Westmoreland were agents for various concerns in the West Indies and the Carribean, including several that had previously been supplied with Boulton Watt & Co. engines by other agents. The engine on the Dry River Estate mentioned here was one of two supplied by W. & R. Mitchell in 1813 [see Portfolio 5/790]. |