| Description | 2e. Southwark & Vauxhall Water Co., Streatham Works (HJ). Sep., Oct., Dec. 1893, Jan.-May 1894. 26 items.
Triple expansion engine, with 8½ inch, 13 inch and 25 inch cylinders, 2 foot stroke.
Set of numbered drawings:
[Nos. 1 and 2 missing]; 3 - base frames and guides, 4 - crank shaft, [No. 5 missing], 6 - gland for high pressure and back end of intermediate pressure cylinders, [No. 7 missing], 8 - fly wheels and pinions for barring gear, 9 - intermediate pressure slide valve, 10 - buckets and suction valves and seats for pressure pumps, 11 - engine shaft blocks, 12 - pump shaft blocks, [Nos. 13-15 missing], 16 - high pressure main and expansion valves, [Nos. 17 and 18 missing], 19 - air pump, [Nos. 20-22 missing], 23 tank and feed and air force pumps - copies on blueprint paper; [Nos. 24-30 missing]; 31 - horizontal pump connecting rods (i.e. rods to bell cranks) - coloured tracing; [Nos. 32-37 missing]; 38 - bell crank levers - copy on blueprint paper. Most of these drawings bear letter codes.
Crank shaft coupling and helical pinion - partially coloured tracing; pump connecting rods, sections and plan of the foundations, cylinder relief valve, well pump rods and couplings and pipes, cut off indicator, steel tubes and couplings - copies on blueprint paper; details of rods for well pumps - partially coloured tracing; back pressure valve - copy on blueprint paper; buckets for well pumps - coloured drawing; well pump connecting rods - copy on blueprint paper; 2½ inch throttle valve - partially coloured tracing; steady pipe and gauge glass for air vessel, column and index for by-pass - partially coloured drawing. Most of these drawings bear letter codes.
For the Southwark & Vauxhall Water Co., Streatham Works, London. Pumping engine.
See also: Portfolio 6/6 (bell crank lever pedestals). |