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Miscellaneous Other Firms and Engineers’ Products and Drawings, 1852, 1860, 1874,...

Catalogue reference: MS 3147/7/28

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This record is a file about the Miscellaneous Other Firms and Engineers’ Products and Drawings, 1852, 1860, 1874,... dating from 1852 - 1936.

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Reference

MS 3147/7/28

Title

Miscellaneous Other Firms and Engineers’ Products and Drawings, 1852, 1860, 1874, 1880, 1883, 1936 (16 items).

Date

1852 - 1936

Description

28. Miscellaneous Other Firms and Engineers' Products and Drawings. 1852, 1860, 1874, 1880, 1883, 1936. 16 items.
Engines, engine components, machinery etc. made by other firms and engineers.

Webster's Patent for the manufacture of Prussiate of Potash and Prussian Blue, Aug. 1860 - 2 coloured drawings of retorts, boilers etc.

Printed drawings from Dugard's Patent Specification, No. 4126, 1 Dec. 1874.

Compound engines for first class torpedo boat constructed by John I. Thorneycroft & Co., Chiswick - printed drawing from Engineering, 24 Sep. 1880.

Capell's Patent Mine Ventilating Fan - copy on blueprint paper of drawing by Richard Lloyd & Co., Sep. 1883.

William Fairbairn & Co.'s Patent Improved Rivetting Machine - printed leaflet, not dated.

Patent Steam Rivetting Machine constructed by W. J. & I. Garforth - printed leaflet, not dated.

Roemmele's key way gauges - tracing, not dated.

Centrifugal machinery [?] - 2 drawings showing vertical and horizontal movement of apparatus with a fan within a cylinder - coloured drawings, not dated [one of the drawings is marked on the back "Railway buffer", but the drawings do not appear to show buffers - they may relate to centrifugal experiments].

A non-condensing engine of the table principle - printed drawing removed from a book or periodical, not dated.

John H. Beattie's Patent slide valves applied to locomotive engines - sheet of printed drawings, not dated.

Patent barring engine - partially coloured tracing, not dated.

Printed drawing of ? - drawing from a patent [?] marked "Fig. II", not dated.

Automatic valve and governor detaching gear (Lambert's Patent) - photostat copy, original not dated.

H. M. Dockyard Portsmouth:
Sectional arrangement of Crompton Parkinson induction motor for H. M. Dockyard, Portsmouth - blueprint, Jan. 1936.

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Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service
Record URL
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Series information

MS 3147/6

DRAWINGS - "AVERY" PORTFOLIOS

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Miscellaneous Other Firms and Engineers’ Products and Drawings, 1852, 1860, 1874, 1880, 1883, 1936 (16 items).