| Description | Independent Beam (Crank) Engines (3 items).
832g. Thomson Hankey & Co., General Penitentiary, Kingston, Jamaica. May, Sep. 1857. 3 items.
Steam engine.
Plan of the cold water pump and pipes - partially coloured tracing, with partially coloured copy made at Soho (the original was made by Dingwall & Jones, engineers, and sent to James Watt & Co. by Thomson Hankey & Co.); plan and section of feeding apparatus (this drawing was originally made for Pearse & Child for the Harmony Hall Estate in 1852 and re-used for Thomson Hankey & Co. in Sep. 1857 and is assumed to be for the Penitentiary engine). Both these drawings bear letter codes.
For the General Penitentiary, Kingston, Jamaica. Ordered by Thomson Hankey & Co. of London. The details of the power and construction of the Penitentiary engine are unknown. |