| Description | Independent Beam (Crank) Engines (5 items).
836. Clarke Maze & Co., Bristol (MO). Mar., Apr. 1840. 5 items.
24 horse power independent crank engine, with 28 inch cylinder, 3½ foot stroke, parallel motion, [cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod].
Reverse plan of the engine house and tunnel, longitudinal and transverse sections of the engine house, plans of the masonry (3 courses); plan of the engine and boiler houses and section of engine house by J. Daniel, Mar. 1840 (this drawing is on tracing paper and shows a 20 horse engine); plan of the bleaching works - drawing on tracing paper. The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 928. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 236.
For Clarke Maze & Co. Bleaching works, Great Western Cotton Works, Bristol. See Portfolios 5/516 and 5/521a & b for other engines ordered by the firm. By Nov. 1860 the firm had become Bush Ames & Co. and by 1872 it was The Great Western Cotton Co. |