| Description | Independent Beam (Crank) Engines (18 items).
832f. Thomson Hankey & Co., Lataste Estate, Grenada (ZBQ & DD). Sep. 1850, Apr. 1851, Nov., Dec. 1852, Sep. 1857, Aug. 1859, Apr. 1863. 18 items.
ZBQ: Replacement parts etc. for an 8 horse power engine originally ordered by Amyand Cornewall & Co.
DD: 8 horse power engine, with parallel motion, 18½ inch cylinder, [cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod]. Engine ordered by Thomson Hankey & Co. 1852.
Also sugar mill.
Replacement parts for engine ZBQ:
"Sketch of articles required for Lataste engine…", Sep. 1850 - drawings on tracing paper; piston, Apr. 1851 - partially coloured original and reverse drawings.
Engine DD, 1852 drawings, Nov.-Dec. 1852:
Plan of 8 horse engine and boiler and sugar mill, longitudinal sections of the engine and boiler (not coloured), cross-section of the engine and boiler and sugar mill, longitudinal section of sugar mill - partially coloured reverse drawings; sleeper plate for 8 horse sugar mill; "Sketch for strengthening the 8 horse sugar mill frame" and plan of sugar mill rolls and gudgeons - 2 small drawings stuck on one sheet; connecting machinery for the 8 horse sugar mill; 2 small sketches of rolls and rods of the sugar mill.
Later drawings:
Sketch of wrought iron crank shaft, Sep. 1857; plan and sections of boiler - partially coloured original and reverse drawings, Sep. 1857; "Sketches of two brass bushes, two pinching screws & nuts for side rollers, and a dumb returner", Sep. 1858 - coloured drawings on tracing paper; "Drawings for Repairs on Lataste Estate" - cold water pump, air pump bucket, cylinder packing ring, Aug. 1859 - coloured drawings sent by Thomson Hankey Co.; tracings of ?, Apr. 1863. Some of these drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 825. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 224, 232.
For the Lataste Estate, Grenada. Ordered by Thomson Hankey & Co. The Lataste Estate had two 8 horse power engines. The first, ZBQ, was ordered by Amyand Cornewall & Co. in 1814. Thomson Hankey & Co. took over the agency for the Lataste Estate and ordered a second engine, DD, in 1852, and various replacement parts and repairs for engine ZBQ. Engine DD was omitted from the Catalogue of Old Engines.
See also: Portfolio 5/904 (Engine ZBQ).
Portfolio 6/51 (Engine DD). |