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Fermin de Tastet, for the Marquis de Casa Yrujo, Cadiz, Spain, 1806, 1807

Catalogue reference: MS 3147/5/388

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MS 3147/5/388
Title
Fermin de Tastet, for the Marquis de Casa Yrujo, Cadiz, Spain, 1806, 1807
Date
1806 - 1807
Description

Crank Engines. (22 items).

388. Fermin de Tastet, for the Marquis de Casa Yrujo, Cadiz (YY & ZZ). May, Oct., Dec. 1806, May, Jun. 1807. 22 items.
Two 50 horse power double-acting crank engines, with 36 inch cylinders, 6 foot strokes, cast iron beams, cast iron connecting rods.

Reverse plan and sections of the engine and boiler houses and 3 boilers, plan of the boilers' foundations; reverse general section of the engines (showing full detail of 1 engines only), plan of the engines and boilers, longitudinal section of the boiler and cross-section of the engine house, eccentric working gear, cross-section of the engine house and parallel motion. All the drawings bear letter codes.
Also the following drawings by George Meer [the engineer?]: plan of the engines; plan of 2 boilers with note by John S. Roebuck; plan of the engines, engine house and 2 boilers and part of the mill, with notes by John S. Roebuck; section of the engine house, chimney and 2 boilers; plan of double air pumps; section of air pump and condenser; flywheel shafts and gudgeons - 2 drawings, one with a note by John S. Roebuck; shafts for the mill, with note by John S. Roebuck.
Also transcript of letter from John S. Roebuck for Smallman & Roebuck to the Marquis de Casa Yrujo, dated Philadelphia, 22 May 1806, with a postscript addressed to Boulton Watt & Co. dated 22 Oct. 1806; transcript of letter from Smallman & Roebuck to the Marquis de Casa Yrujo dated 30 Dec. 1806; memorandum of extra articles required, by John S. Roebuck.

Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 569. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 80.

For the Marquis de Casa Yrujo, ordered by Fermin de Tastet & Co. of London. Smallman & Roebuck were the engineers/millwrights [?].

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Fermin de Tastet, for the Marquis de Casa Yrujo, Cadiz, Spain, 1806, 1807