| Description | DM162/162/10/12/ folio 24. Letter relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Memorandum including fencing of yard, piling for ways, alteration of engine frame, midship section, cabin arrangements, directions, economy of iron, disposition of plates, principle of construction, design, weight and strength, misconstruction of iron ships. 26 February 1854.
DM162/162/10/12/ folio 26. Letter relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Memorandum including work with Dixon on engine, improvement in link motion, criticism of Blake's drawings, insufficiency of bearing surfaces, approval of air pumps, condensers, etc. 27 February 1854.
DM162/162/10/12/ folio 28. Letter relating to the Great Eastern steamship. Deals with Blake's arrangements, double piston rods to opposite engine and crank, preference for separate connecting rods, oblique cylinders. 7 March 1854. [See also DM1306/11/1/1/folio 184a ]
DM162/162/10/12/ folio 28. Letter relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Deals with Blake's error in bearing surface calculations, impracticability of double piston rod arrangement. 9 March 1854.
DM162/162/10/12/ folio 30. Letter relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Deals with Russell's progress of pilings including launching ways, crank and piston rods drawings settled, work on ship details. 10 March 1854.
DM162/162/10/12/ folio 30. Letter relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Deals with work at Millwall, cylinder pattern. 25 March 1854.
DM162/162/10/12/ folio 30. Letter relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Deals with progress of drawings, works, ship and paddle engines, Blake's delay with screw engines and main frames drawings, experimental boiler trials. 24 June 1854. |