Miscellaneous Drawings – Engines and Engine Parts, 1802, 1815, 1819, 1833, 1842,...

MS 3147/7/24

Miscellaneous Drawings – Engines and Engine Parts, 1802, 1815, 1819, 1833, 1842, 1852, 1857, 1863, 1870, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1881, 1884, 1885, 1888—1892 (47 items).

1802 - 1892

24. Miscellaneous Drawings - Engines and Engine Parts. 1802, 1815, 1819, 1833, 1842, 1852, 1857, 1863, 1870, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1881, 1884, 1885, 1888-1892. 47 items.
Engines, parts of engines etc. for various customers.

General Drawings of Engines:
Columns, entablature etc. for 20 horse independent engine - coloured reverse drawing, Dec. 1815 (copy made in Sep. 1827).
Elevation of a 14 horse independent engine - coloured drawing by James Brown Jr., 1842.
Elevation and plan of a horizontal compound engine, with 17 inch and 28 inch cylinders and a 3 foot stroke - 2 coloured tracings, not dated.
Ground plan of a pumping engine with 9 inch cylinder and 19¾ inch stroke - copy on blueprint paper, not dated.

General Drawings of Donkey Engines:
General elevations of 6 inch x 6 inch donkey - tracing, not dated.
Cylinder and slide valve for new 5 inch single acting donkey - copy on blueprint paper, not dated.

Bell crank for 6 horse engine - reverse drawing, Jun. 1802.

John Elliott & Co.:
Section through the condensing cistern of 20 horse engine, Dec. 1819.

Combe Delafield & Co., Westminster:
Sketch of stairs and hand railing as made for the 30 horse land boat engine QL at Soho Foundry, Oct. 1833.

Thomas Hollick, Nuneaton:
Corn mill (plan and sections showing engine, boiler, grindstones, shafts, floors etc.) - coloured tracing of a drawing by William Fairbairn & Sons, Manchester, Jan. 1852.

South Staffordshire Water Works:
Bucket for 18 inch pump - coloured drawing, Jul. 1857.

Luis Ruiz, Small Arms Factory, Oviedo:
Sketch of indicator - coloured drawing marked "Note. This Indicator was supplied by McNaught of Glasgow", Oct. 1863.

Engine RZ (single acting engine with 50 inch cylinder, 10 foot stroke for South Staffordshire Water Works):
Main links.
Piston and pole case rod cross bars.
Back links and swivel gudgeon, pump end parallel motion.
Cross bars, links, radius rod gudgeons etc.
[Rough drawings, not dated, circa Nov. 1870.]

Engine QM (horizontal high pressure engine, with 24 inch cylinder, 3 foot stroke for Frith Sands & Co.):
Eccentric rods - sketch, not dated [circa 1871?, also used for engines QX and QY].
Expansion gear wheel - small tracing, not dated [circa 1871?].

Piston and connecting rod for a vertical engine [?] - partially coloured tracing, Apr. 1874.

South Staffordshire Water Works:
Main pump rod cap for 65 inch engines with 10 foot stroke - partially coloured drawing, Apr. 1876.

Farnell & Watson:
Condenser for new 15 horse engine - partially coloured tracing, Sep. 1876.

Honolulu Sugar Mill, Hawai (engines NM & NN): Oct. 1877, Aug. 1884.
Crank shafts - tracing, Oct. 1877.
Shafts for spur wheel - 2 tracings, Oct. 1877.
Braking spindle - tracing, Oct. 1877.
Shaft - tracing, Aug. 1884.

Pode Hole, Deeping Fen Drainage:
Piston rod etc. for 60 horse engine - copy on blueprint paper, Apr. 1881.

Great Yarmouth Water Works (Ormesby Pumping Station):
Details and arrangement of water gauge and fittings on air vessel for Town pumps - coloured drawing, Jul. 1884.

Cockatoo Island Graving Dock, New South Wales, Australia:
Proposed design of chimney - copy on blueprint paper, Oct. 1885, with 2 coloured tracings of plans and longitudinal sections of a chimney (not marked as Cockatoo Island).

Muntz's Metal Co.:
Detail of air pump - partially coloured tracing, Dec. 1889.

The Electric Construction Corporation Ltd.:
Detail of crank pin and piston rod guide lubricator - coloured tracing, Mar. 1890.
General arrangement of engine showing lubricators - coloured copy drawing, May 1890.

Rio de Janeiro Drainage (District No. 5), Brazil:
Details of Reid's patent pumping engine - copy on blueprint paper, Apr. 1891.

Buenos Ayres Water Works, Argentina:
Arrangement of steam and drain pipes, lubricators, counters, gauges, etc. (engine IY) - coloured drawing, Apr. 1891.
General arrangement of starting handles and expansion gear - coloured drawing, not dated.

R. Wootton, Westminster Chambers, Corporation St., Birmingham:
General elevation and plan of horizontal engine with 24 inch cylinder, 35 inch stroke - coloured tracing, Jan. 1892.

Perran Foundry Co.:
Elevation of a 48 inch engine, with 8 foot stroke - tracing, not dated.

Birmingham Water Works (Whitacre Pumping Station):
Cut off motion - tracing, not dated.

Untitled/Unidentified:
Rough sketch of a vertical pumping engine and well, not dated.
Section and outside view of rotary engine [?] - not dated.
Triple crank plate and sliding block - coloured tracing, not dated.
Parts of ? gear - coloured drawing, not titled or dated.
Tracing of ? [plate?] - not titled or dated.
Tracing of ? - partially coloured, not dated.