| Description | Independent Beam (Crank) Engines (2 items).
948. 12 Horse Sugar Plantation Engines, West Indies (DC, FC, FD, FT). Feb. 1816, Apr. 1817, May 1818, Oct. 1820. 2 items.
Four 12 horse power independent crank engines, with 20? inch cylinders, 3 foot strokes, parallel motions, cast iron beams, cast iron connecting rods.
Reverse cross-section of the engine house and boiler, plan of the engine house and boiler, longitudinal section of the boiler, side view of the engine. The drawings bear letter codes.
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 712. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 226, 228.
These drawings were used for four separate engines. Henry Hazleton assigned a portfolio number to each engine despite the fact that there were no individual drawings for the engines. The engines were as follows:
Sandbach Tinné & Co., Essequibo (DC) [Hazleton's Portfolio 948].
For Plantation Coffee Grove, Essequibo. Sugar plantation engine ordered by Sandbach Tinné & Co. of Liverpool. The original drawings for this engine were made in Feb. 1816. In 1845 W. S. Chauncy had the power increased to 14 horses.
Nathaniel Winter & Co., Demerara (FC) [Hazleton's Portfolio 949].
Sugar plantation [?] engine ordered by Nathaniel Winter & Co. of 3 Copthall Buildings, London. The original drawings for this engine were made in Apr. 1817.
Thomas & William King, Demerara (FD) [Hazleton's Portfolio 950].
For the Friendship Estate, Demerara. Sugar plantation engine ordered by Thomas & William King of London. The original drawings for this engine were made in May 1818.
France Fletcher Yates & Co., Jamaica (FT) [Hazleton's Portfolio 951].
For Caswell Hill, Jamaica. Sugar plantation engine ordered by France Fletcher Yates & Co. of Liverpool. The original drawings for this engine were made in Oct. 1820. This engine was altered to 14 horses high pressure in 1845 by Joseph Brooks Yates & Co.
See also: 4/94 (Engine Order Book No. 8 - engine DC).
4/95 (Engine Order Book No. 9 - engines FC, FD, FT).
Portfolio 5/1017 (engine FT) |