| Description | 37. French Walls Iron Works (PA & -). May-Nov. 1829, Jun. 1830. 14 items.
PA: 37 horse power crank engine, with 32½ inch cylinder, 5 foot stroke, parallel motion, [cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod].
-: 20 horse power crank engine.
Plan of the engine houses and boilers, longitudinal section of 37 horse engine and boiler houses and blowing cylinder, cross-sections of the 37 horse engine house, cross-sections of the 20 horse engine house, longitudinal section of the 20 horse engine house and cross-section of the boiler house - reverse drawings.
Also parallel motion for the 37 horse engine - reverse drawing; plan and section of boilers etc.; 20 horse spring beams, plan and sections of boilers, part of plan of engines and boilers, 20 horse steam pipes, 37 horse steam pipe, 20 horse feed pipes - press copy drawings. The reverse drawings bear letter codes.
Also untitled tracing of later date showing plan and sections of 20 and 50 horse engines.
For James Watt Jr., French Walls Iron Works, Smethwick. The 37 horse engine was a "shortened" version of a 40 horse engine, and was sold to Samuel Badger for a flour mill at Friday Bridge, Birmingham in Apr. 1840.
See also: Portfolio 5/523. |