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W. G. & S. Hibbert and Beeston Long, Jamaica, 1815

Catalogue reference: MS 3147/5/888

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Title
W. G. & S. Hibbert and Beeston Long, Jamaica, 1815
Date
1815
Description

Independent Beam (Crank) Engines (3 items).

888. W. G. & S. Hibbert, Jamaica (ZCG) and Beeston Long, Jamaica (ZCF & ZCN). Sep., Dec. 1815. 3 items.
ZCG, ZCF: Two 10 horse power independent crank engines, with 19¾ inch cylinders, 2½ foot strokes, parallel motions, cast iron beams, cast iron connecting rods.
ZCN: 8 horse power independent crank engine, with 17? inch cylinder, 2½ foot stroke, parallel motion, cast iron beam, cast iron connecting rod.

Reverse side view of the engine, plan of the engine and boiler, cross-section of the engine and boiler, longitudinal section of the boiler. The drawings bear letter codes.
Also plan of engine, boiler and horizontal sugar mill with 3 cases for W. G. & S. Hibbert - coloured drawing marked "copy of drawing by W. Murdock, Jamaica."

Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 690. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 224.

For the Lyssons Estate, Jamaica, ordered by W. G. & S. Hibbert of Mincing Lane, London (engine ZCG), and for the Parnassus and an unspecified estate, Jamaica, ordered by Beeston Long of Leadenhall St., London (engines ZCF & ZCN). Sugar plantation engines. The engine ordered by Hibberts was later operated by Benjamin Greene. The drawings were made in Sep. 1815 for Hibbert's engine and re-used in Dec. for Long's engines, despite the fact that one of them was of a different power. Henry Hazleton allocated separate portfolio numbers to the engines despite the fact that they did not have separate drawings; Hibbert's was Portfolio 888 and Long's were Portfolio 889.

See also: 4/94 (Engine Order Book No. 8).

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