| Description | 58a. Miscellaneous Drawings, 1850-1891. 1851-1855, 1857, 1859, 1862, 1863, 1865, 1866, 1875, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1884-1886, 1891, 1903. 48 items.
Engines, boilers, components etc.
General drawings of engines and boilers:
12 horse high pressure engine:
Elevations and plan of 12 horse high pressure engine, with 14 inch cylinder, 2½ foot stroke, A frames - partially coloured tracing, circa Sep. 1855.
Dunstan & Barlow, Iron Works:
Longitudinal section of the engine house and plan of the tunnels, May 1857.
Luis Ruiz, Small Arms Factory, Oviedo:
Plan of a horizontal engine with 24 inch cylinder, 3 foot stroke and boilers - reverse drawing, Mar. 1863.
Burnt Fen Drainage, Brandon River:
Plan of the engine and boiler houses, Aug. 1830 - partially coloured tracing made in the 1870s/1880s.
Thomas King:
Side and end views of independent engine - 3 shaded drawings, not dated.
Messrs. Stanbridge:
2 plans for a 10 horse engine and 2 boilers - partially coloured drawing, not dated.
Longitudinal section of a boiler - partially coloured tracing, 1880s [?].
Side view of 2 horizontal engines [for a steam boat?] - coloured drawing, not dated.
Front and side view of a rotary engine [?], not dated.
Engine components etc.:
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Cylinder [?] etc. - partially coloured drawing, Jan. 1854.
East Indian Iron Co.:
Compressed air cylinder, piston and cross bar - partially coloured drawing, Oct. 1859.
Charles Cammell & Co.:
Steam stop valve - partially coloured reverse drawing, Nov. 1862.
Hydraulic cylinder for working reversing clutch - partially coloured reverse drawing, Sep. 1863.
Charrington Head & Co.:
Air pump, condenser etc. - partially coloured reverse drawing, Sep. 1863 (also used for Watney & Co.'s 50 horse engine, Mar. 1868).
Courage & Co.:
Air pump and condenser - partially coloured drawing, Apr. 1866.
Great Indian Peninsular Railway:
Cylinder escape valves - partially coloured drawing, Jul. 1877.
Royal Albert Dock, London:
Bend for delivery pipes, Apr. 1884.
Shafts, cranks, columns etc. for engines with 4½ foot strokes, 1850 - partially coloured copy made May 1886.
Rio de Janeiro Drainage, Lagoa Extension, Brazil:
Details of suction and delivery valves for main pumps (Reid's patent) - 2 coloured drawings, Jan. and Feb. 1891.
Walker & Co.:
Cylinder escape valves - coloured drawing, not dated.
Sections of cylinders for double cylinder expansion engine - partially coloured drawing, not dated.
Wrought iron crank and thrust shafts - tracing, not dated.
Eccentric rods, Jan. 1849 - tracing made in the 1870s/1880s.
Pencil drawing of ? (coded ANJN), 1880s.
Sketch of 6 inch and 8 inch expansion joints, not dated.
Steam boats and boat engine components:
Steam boat Haggerstone:
New screw propeller - reverse drawing marked "not executed", Dec. 1852.
List of articles for a set of boat engines marked "Copy sent Boswell, 30 Dec. 1853."
List of plates for main steam pipes for a pair of 200 horse engines ( for H.M. steam ship Barrossa) and a pair of 250 horse engines, circa 1859.
Plan and sections of a warship powered by a steam ram (copy sent to W. F. Jones, Rio) - partially coloured tracing, Feb. 1865.
India General Steam Navigation Co.:
Cylinder escape valves - partially coloured drawing, Jan. 1879.
Other machinery:
Bow Union:
Cistern, cylindrical boiler and heating apparatus - 2 partially coloured reverse drawings, Sep. and Oct. 1851.
Bank of England:
Fire pumps, cold water pumps etc. - partially coloured reverse drawing, Nov. 1851.
Finlay Hodgson & Co.:
Force pump, bell crank etc. worked by a water wheel - partially coloured reverse drawing, Nov. 1857.
James Watt & Co., Soho Foundry:
6 inch and 7 inch pulley blocks - 2 drawings, Mar. 1875.
Uhtoff & Co.:
Details of melting pots - small tracing and partially coloured drawing, Aug. 1885.
S. Bennett & Son:
Note re the cost of materials and workmanship, not dated (marked on the back "Sanitary Pan").
Photograph of ?.
Plans of works:
Plan of a forge showing engines, hammer, shears, boilers etc. - coloured tracing sent by Tannett Walker & Co., Leeds, May 1878.
Plan of a cartridge factory - coloured tracing by Greenwood & Batley, Leeds.
Other firms' products:
Farcot et Fils, St. Ouen, France:
Printed drawing of horizontal high-speed pumping engine at St. Maur, taken from The Engineer, 26 Jul. 1878.
Green's Patent Fuel Economiser:
Printed drawings.
Marshall Sons & Co. Ltd., Gainsborough:
Printed advertising leaflet for horizontal fixed engines, 1903 [?].
The majority of the drawings were made in the London office, and several bear letter codes. |