| Description | Written from 18 Duke Street, Westminster, London. The letter explained that Brunel disagreed with the piecemeal approach to repeatedly testing and then altering the designs for the hawse-pipe so he went down to the Millwall shipyard the previous Sunday and made a completely new drawing, which Mr Dickson will give to Hepworth. Brunel expresses his certainty that if the hawse-pipe is manufactured exactly according to his drawing then it will be found completely acceptable and suggests how Hepworth might go about constructing certain parts of the design. There are two sketches on Folio 10 illustrating Brunel's points. |