| Description | 14 horse power double-acting sun & planet engine, with 20 inch cylinder, 5 foot stroke, parallel motion.
Includes coloured oringinal and reverse general view, coloured original and reverse plans and sections of the engine and boilers - one of the drawings includes an unusual section of the chimney flues; framing and cistern - reverse drawings; partially coloured original and reverse plans and sections of the engine and boiler houses; parallel motion - coloured original (with tea stain?) and reverse drawings; working gear - reverse front and side views; spur wheels, dated 22 Feb. 1803; pinion, dated 2 Mar. 1804 (note that this last drawing may be for Holt & Co.'s 14 horse crank engine of 1804, but it has been attached to the 1803 spur wheel drawing). All the drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 177. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 30.
For John Lawrence and Thomas Yates of Manchester and David Holt of Holttown Mill. Holttown cotton mills, Manchester.
See also: Engine Agreements, Incoming Correspondence. |