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Miscellaneous Drawings – Other Machinery, 1863, 1873, 1875, 1879, 1881, 1888, 1890,...

Catalogue reference: MS 3147/7/25

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Reference

MS 3147/7/25

Title

Miscellaneous Drawings – Other Machinery, 1863, 1873, 1875, 1879, 1881, 1888, 1890, 1893, 1904 (19 items).

Date

1863 - 1904

Description

25. Miscellaneous Drawings - Other Machinery. 1863, 1873, 1875, 1879, 1881, 1888, 1890, 1893, 1904. 19 items.
Machine tools, scoop wheel, converter bottom, miscellaneous non-steam engine machinery for various customers.

Hatfield Chase:
Scoop wheel - partially coloured reverse drawing, Jul. 1863.

Brown Shipley & Co.:
Brass feeding tube for connecting machine, Jun. 1873.

Castle Hill Factory, near Dudley:
Wire rope pulley - coloured tracing, Apr. 1875.

James Watt & Co., Soho Foundry:
General arrangement of 20 ton crane - coloured tracing, May 1879.
General arrangement of tooth cutting machine - copy on blueprint paper, Nov. 1879.

Birmingham Small Arms & Metal Co. Ltd:
Tracing of ? (tapering pipe?), Oct. 1879.

South Staffordshire Steel & Ingot Co. Ltd.:
Converter bottom - coloured drawing, Sep. 1888.

General arrangement and details of screw draw bench - partially coloured drawing, Nov. 1890 [on the back of this drawing is a pencil transverse section of the Caterham Asylum engine house].

Muntz's Metal Co.:
Wrought iron trollies - 2 sheets of coloured plans and sections, Oct. 1893.

B.S.S.T.C.:
Foundations of draw benches, engine and shafting - partially coloured tracing marked "Drawing No. 2", not dated.
Arrangement of shafting for draw benches - partially coloured tracing marked "Drawing No. 7", not dated.

Poplar Dock, London:
Arrangement of foundation for 5 ton crane - partially coloured tracing, not dated.

Patent Screwing Machine drawn by G. B. Martin - partially coloured drawing, not dated.

Untitled/Unidentified:
Sketch of wall rack for carrying mandrils - copy on blueprint paper, not dated.
Unidentified machine - copy on blueprint paper, not dated.
Small pencil note re a drilling machine, not dated.
Sections of 2 inch square bars twisted to 2¼ inches round and fluted - tracing, Nov. 1881.
Detail of clutch driven wire block - copy on blueprint paper, Mar. 1904.

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MS 3147/6

DRAWINGS - "AVERY" PORTFOLIOS

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Miscellaneous Drawings – Other Machinery, 1863, 1873, 1875, 1879, 1881, 1888, 1890, 1893, 1904 (19 items).