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D658 - Pinxton collieries and railways: plans, photographs and other papers - 19th-20th cent
1 - Photographs and prints - 19th-20th cent
2 - Maps - 1836-20th cent
3 - Drawings, chiefly of railway interest - 19th-20th cent
1 - Drawing of 2 Cylinder table engine with figure 8 reversing gear ... erected 1826 at Greenhill Lane, Riddings, and "used for driving rope haulage to draw one or two waggons of coal up the incline from Oakes Foundry Yard to the land sale Wharf near the two old disused wind mills. Engine and Cornish boiler broken up, Aug 1926" - 20th cent
2-18 - Drawings of Bull Pumping Engine for the Pinxton Colliery Company endorsed Butterley Iron Works, Alfreton. Various scales. Size 95 x 63 cm - 1887-1890
19 - Drawing of Cornish Pumping Engine, erected at Mill Close Lead Mine - 1860
20 - Drawing of Pumping Engine, Swanwick Colliery - late 19th cent
21 - Drawing of "Persevere" pump, erected in 1828 and owned by Pinxton Colliery Company Ltd, Pinxton - 1939
22 - Drawing of American Paddle Engine - [20th cent]
23-34 - Plans/sections of a small locomotive. Various sizes and scales. - c1870
35 - Pinxton Green bull engine cylinder and valve chest - Late 19th cent
36 - Drawing of Cornish valve gear single acting. Blue print. Sclae 1.5 inch: 1 foot. Size 307 x 42 cm - 20th cent
37 - Vertical compound Corliss Engine H P Valve Gear Arrangement. Scale 3 inches: 1 foot. Size 100 x 65 cm - 1902
38 - Drawing of arrangement of 48 inch wide package conveyor. Scale 1 inch: 1 foot. Size 103 x 78 cm (photostat) - 20th cent
39 - High Pressure Steam Engine, John W Watson. Scale 1 inch: 1 foot. Size 108 x 72 cm - 1868
40 - Drawing of bicycle. Scale 3 inches: 1 foot. Size 69 x 47 cm - 19th cent
41-45 - Untitled drawings, no scales - 19th cent-1934
46 - Drawing of horse-drawn coal truck, c1820-1840, by Fred Smith. Scale 1 inch: 1 foot - 1942
47 - Drawing of chaulrdron wagon, Cramlington Colliery (Northumberland), by Fred Smith. Scale 1 inch: 1 foot - 1945
48-50 - Drawings of Kings Patent Detaching Hook - 20th cent
51-61 - Railway engineering drawings, glued and sewn together at one end - [mid-19th cent]
62 - Drawing of Stephenson's link motion [badly damaged] Marked No. 16 - 1850
63 - Drawing of common single fork and Cabry's variable fork. Marked no. 15 - 1850
64 - Drawing of Fenton's expansion gear with worm on driving shaft. Marked No. 14 - 1850
65 - Drawing of Dodd's Patent Wedge Motion - 1850
66-67 - Drawing of Fork motion out of gear and in gear. Two copies, marked 12 and 12A - 1850
68 - Diagram of valve. Marked No 9 - 1850
69 - Drawing of "Regulator or Governor Balls". Marked No. 8 - 1850
70 - Drawing of "Cataract" Marked No. 7 - 1850
71 - Drawing of "Winding Engine", Marked No. 2 - 1850
72 - Drawing of "Oedipole or turbine" Marked No 1. - 1850
4 - Collieries - 1868-1908
5 - Miscellaneous items - 19th-20th cent
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