| Description | Woolwich Smithery, Forge Engine (MM)
20 horse power double-acting crank engine, with with 23¾ inch cylinder, 5 foot stroke, parallel motion, [cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod].
Also blowing apparatus.
Longitudinal section of the boiler and cross-section of the engine, plan of the engine and boilers and cross-section of the boilers, longitudinal and cross-sections of the engine - tracings of drawings originally made in Oct. 1814.
Also coloured drawing of parts of blowing apparatus, not dated.
For the Honourable the Commissioners of the Navy. Forge engine for the Smithery, H. M. Dockyard Woolwich, to work tilt hammers. According to Engine Order Book No. 8, the engine was actually made in 1811, but appropriated for the Dockyard in 1815. It is not known when this set of tracings was made. The engine was later sold and erected near Sittingbourne in Kent.
See also: 4/94 (Engine Order Book No. 8), Portfolio 5/452a. |