| Description | Brunel tells Guppy about discussions with Field and Maudslay concerning designs for a steamship: 'I strongly advise that the paddle for the new vessel [probably the SS Great Britain] should not be gone on with until the GW [SS Great Western] has gone a voyage with these paddles at 2ft...'
Annotated with various calculations.
Written on paper headed '18, Duke St, Westminster, Great Western Railway', amended to read 'Great Western Steamship'.
Addressed to: TR Guppy Esq, Bristol |