West India Dock Co., London, 1830—1832

Dock and Harbour Engines (29 items).

New 46 inch pump for emptying reservoirs. Pump worked by the 36 inch engine erected in 1828.

Sketches of the reservoirs and 2 36 inch pumps by William Creighton, 14 Apr. 1830; small sheet of calculations of water lifted by 36 inch pump; sheet of calculations of water lifted by various combinations of pumps, May 1830; coloured section and plans of the reservoirs - rough and final versions; sketch of 2 pumps and water levels etc.; 2 sheets of rough plans of the reservoirs, with extensive pencil calculations; pencil section showing various water and tide levels, floors etc.; coloured section marked "Depth of the Filtering Reservoirs" with bar charts of tide levels in 1829 - rough and final versions; coloured plan and section of the reservoirs and engine house; "Memorandum relative to the scheme of throwing the 3 reservoirs of the West India Docks into one, and Pumping from one common level and delivering the Water from the Engine into the Discharging Pipe of the Entrance Basin".
Drawings of the new pump: "Memorandum with a sketch relating to the new proposed 46 inch pump for the West India Dock engine", 3 Jul. 1830, with coloured section of the pump; sections and plan of the pump - original (coded MOX) and incomplete reverse copy (parts of the reverse drawings have been crossed out); 2 sheets of press copy sketches sent to James Brown; sketch sections and plans, 30 Jul. 1830; sketch plan and section of the top of the pump [?]; sketch of pump rod; plans and sections of pump and bucket - original and reverse drawings (coded MPQ); section and plan of the pump, well and tunnel - drawing made in London, 11 Jan. 1831; plan and sections of pump and fixing of pump beams - drawing made in London, 19 Aug. 1831; undated note of tide levels; sketch of outer cap gudgeon marked "broken", 29 Mar. 1831; transcript of "Report on the Steam Engine at the Reservoirs", by Thomas Shadrake, West India Dock Co. Engineer's Office, 10 May 1832 (original sent to C. C. Parish, Principal Dock Master).

For the West India Dock Co. This new pump replaced one of the pumps originally worked by the 36 inch engine erected in 1828, following complaints by the firm that the engine was not raising the amount of water it should have been doing.

See also: Portfolio 6/97, Incoming Correspondence,.