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BRUNEL, RAILWAYS AND ENGINEERING Collection of forty-nine nineteenth-century engineering drawings and plans
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BRUNEL, RAILWAYS AND ENGINEERING Collection of forty-nine nineteenth-century engineering drawings and plans
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Collection of forty-nine nineteenth-century engineering drawings and plans relating to I.K. Brunel's Great Western Railway Engineers Office, the Hammersmith & City Railway, Westbourne Park Station, and other projects, comprising:
i) Great Western Railway Engineers' Office, Paddington: Twenty-one plans and technical drawings depicting various elements at Paddington Station (fencing, platform, goods frame etc.); others showing Spur Wheel, Bevel Wheel (dated in pencil July 1831) and gear wheels, steam engines, engine pumps (one dated 1840 and extensively annotated '...This is only a hand sketch drawn to no scale...') and other equipment; earlier group depicting 'London Oil Mill', inscribed, signed and dated by John Wallis Hammond ('J. Hammond 7 Dec 1830?' [date indistinct], 'Machine for Twisting Yarn', 'Machine for Winding Yarn', 'Machine for Winding Yard' (2), 'Breast Water wheel from Mr Donkin April 1835 about who for', machinery from the 'Six Horse Sugar Mill', and other unidentified drawings, one with 1826 watermark, all but six bearing stamp of Great Western Railway 31051 or 30764 Engineers Office, Paddington
ii) Railway Cranes: Four drawings comprising 'Hydraulic Cranes', dated 14 August 1856 and initialled 'HNS'; 2 Tons Crane, inscribed 'Glo'ster/ G. Wells Owen', dated 28 September 1857, stamped 'Note! This is no.28 of a set of 38 Drawings... not to be unbound...'; 5 Tons Station Crane supplied by the Cowans Sheldon & Company, Carlisle; 'GWR Outline of Twenty Tons Balance Crane' (inscribed with I.K. Brunel's home and office address "18 Duke Street" and dated indistinctly), all bearing stamp of Great Western Railway Engineers Offices, Paddington (nos.30751, 37243, 30759 and 30754)
iii) Great Western Railway Pangbourne: Three coloured technical drawings providing specifications and calculations for railway contractors, comprising 'Drawing no.7: Blounts Bridge' and 'Drawing no.12: Oxford Road Bridge', showing elevation, longitudinal section, foundations, superstructure and transverse section of each, 'Blounts Bridge' bearing set of additional manuscript calculations; and 'Drawing no.3' showing cross sections of plans for digging a railway cutting, showing trees, strata and gradients, all stamped variously 'Note! This is no.16 [22, 29] of a set of 65 Drawings... not to be unbound...'
iv) Hammersmith & City Railway: Fourteen drawings including coloured aerial plan of a section of the railway (showing Latimer Road, West London Railway, Bromley Road and Wood Lane); Notting Barns Bridge (detail of girders); Shepherd's Bush (bracket for underside of roof); Portobello Lane Bridge; Ladbroke Grove Station (decorative details for cast ironwork); Abutments at Wood Lane; Bromley Road Bridge (4, one dated 20 August 1862); Uxbridge Road Bridge; New Road Bridge (2); a plan by contractors Westwood & Baillie showing a turntable for the Shepherd's Bush terminus and London Yard Iron Works, ten bearing stamp of the London railway contractor C. Rummens, Bishopgate Street;
v) Engine House, Cardiff: Four plans relating to the construction of the engine house (two dated 10 June 1857, one dated 28 May 1857), three with stamp of W.G. Armstrong & Sons, Elswick Engine Works, Newcastle upon Tyne
vi) Westbourne Park Station (GWR): Two plans, one showing plans and elevation of the station building, dated 16 November 1875; the other including the GWR Railway line, Green Lane Bridge and floor plan of the station, dated 1875, both with GWR 10388 Engineers Office Paddington stamp;
pencil, ink and watercolour, dust-staining, discolouration, marks and creases, tears and small holes throughout, tape repairs, some taken from sketchbooks or trimmed from larger sheets, some larger plans made up of two sheets joined together, some linen backed, the majority mounted on thin card for conservation, various sizes largest c.765 x 1310mm. and smaller, c.1830's to 1870's (collection)