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Drawing of 6 Wheel 2800G Water Capacity 2106 Cubic Feet Fuel Capacity 5'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

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Drawing of 6 Wheel 2350G Water Capacity 250 Cubic Feet 3'6" Gauge Tender General Arrangement

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Drawing of Partridge Jones Co 4'8 1/2" Gauge Locomotive

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Drawing of 3'6" Gauge Locomotive

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Drawing of Cape Government Railway 3'6" Gauge Locomotive

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Mensuration Made Perfectly Easy, by the Assistance of a New Improved Sliding Rule

Fair

Report by Robert Stevenson, civil engineer, on railway lines from Midlothian to Edinburgh and Leith, with plans, sections and detailing possible extensions to Dalkeith, Musselburgh, Haddington and Dunbar

Report by Robert Stevenson, civil engineer, on railway lines from Midlothian to Edinburgh and Leith, with plans, sections and detailing possible extensions to Dalkeith, Musselburgh, Haddington and Dunbar

[Notes re] Experiments made with Lt Rodger's Hose Syphons/[S Goodrich (and William Heard?). Bear ink sketches]

4p on 1 leaf

[Letter] Mansfield Place, Kentish Town [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/Geo. Ainslie. [Social news, including of the Benthams' old house in Hampstead]

3p on 1 leaf

Suggestions for Experiments of making use of Lead to assist in refining Copper/S Goodrich

3p on 1 leaf

Design for a Slide Cock to stop both ways/[S Goodrich]

4p on 2 leaves

[Untitled pencil sketch, of horse-operated cart, and pencil line drawing of ?/S Goodrich]

1p + 1 sheet

Explanation for fixing an Additional Pump at the New Navy Well at Sheerness, with references to the accompanying Design/S Goodrich, Portsmouth Yard. [Bears line drawing with wash to 1/4":1' scale. With additional drawings and pencil sketches]

3p on 1 leaf + 4p on 3 leaves

[Draft report] Navy Office [to] Navy Board/S Goodrich, [re] Experiments made with Pumps worked by the Capstan on Lt Edwards Plan and by the Winches on board the Narcissus frigate

2p on 1 leaf

[Letter] London [to] S Goodrich/Geo. Hawks, [re subpoena to his (Hawks's) 'trial with Brunton about Chain Cables']

1p

[Draft report] Portsmo. Yard [to Navy] Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams, J P?, re trial of Lt Shuldham's blocks]

5p on 2 leaves

[Draft] Table shewing the Dimensions and Weights of the Chain Cables to be used ... as Substitutes for Hempen Cables.../[S Goodrich. Bears also 'Further Specification']

2p on 1 leaf

[Notes and calculations re] Capt. Phillips Capstan. [Bears ink sketch]

3p on 1 leaf

[Copy letters: /Portsmouth Officers,] containing Table & Spec[ificatio]n for Chain Cables - Messrs Brunton's Anchor Shackles ...; /S Goodrich, on Messrs Brunton's objection]

2p on 1 leaf

[Copy report] Portsmo.Yd. [to Navy] Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J H, S J, T R, [re plan of Mr Jno. Peake for raising Ships in Dock by means of screws' as against 'the use of Blocks' or 'the method of suspending a Ship as now generally used'

4p on 1 leaf

Draft letter to J Mitchell

2p on 1 leaf + 7p on 2 leaves

[Draft report] Portsmo. Yard [to Navy] Bd./S Goodrich, N D[iddams, recommending copper staples and nails instead of iron, for lower boxes of common hand pumps for ships]

1p

Sketch of an Idea for making a Mariner's Compass with the Card or equivalent Marks fitted to the Kettle and moving round with the Ship, and with the Needle quite free and light ... [Reference to 'Ramsden's Compass'] Pencil drawing

52.5 x 32cm

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to] Committee of Navy Board at Portsmouth Goodrich, [being 'Observations upon the Copper (on) the Inconstant']

4p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] Ports. Yard [to Navy Board/Officers] N Diddams [and] Wm H[eard? They will send drawings, signed by Goodrich before his trip to S Wales, of new cistern for new deep well at the Yard]

2p on 1 leaf

[Memorandum] Sheerness/[Lt] Wm Rodger, [re trial] alongside of HMS Northumberland with Tank Vessel for the purpose of trying the Syphon for watering Ships

1p

Extinguishing Engine 1 sheet of line drawings and ink sketches

37 x 47.5cm

Experiments made with Lt Rodgers Syphons on Board the Wellesley of 74 Guns/[S Goodrich. Bears ink sketch]

2p on 1 leaf

[Letter] Society of Arts [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock/Arthur Aikin, Sec[retar]y, [re Capt Burton's 'plan for propelling ships by means of paddle wheels worked by the Capstans' being claimed by Mr E Edwards. Bears Goodrich's reply of Apr 10]

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] Portsmo.Yd. [to Navy] Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams, re manufacture of portable crab at Portsmouth for Deptford Yard]

2p on 1 leaf

[Trade card:] Gateshead Iron Works. Hawk's & Co's Table of chain substitutes for hempen cables

[Trade card:] Gateshead Iron Works. Hawk's & Co's Table of chain substitutes for hempen cables

Memo, Portsmo.Yd./S Goodrich, N D[iddams, being orders in case of fire in the Yard. Memo was given to the Commissioners]

1p

[Draft report] Portsmo.Yd. [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams and ?, re Capt White's funnel top for ships]

4p on 1 leaf

[Letter] Metal Mills [to] Officers, Portsmouth Yard/H Vernon, [re quality of copper after second smelting at the mills. Bears table of 'Copper received from the Rivoli, Jany. 1816']

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] Portsmouth Dock Yard [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J P, [re] Lt Edwards Proposal for Working Chain Pumps by Capstans

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] Portsmo.Yd. [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], J P, [re Parsons's model of machine for testing ropes]

8p on 2 leaves

[Notes and calculations re Machine for] Beating Hemp/[S Goodrich]

2p on 1 leaf

[Letter] Trafalgar Place, Plymouth Dock [to] S Goodrich, Portsmouth Dock Yard/Jas. Mitchell, [re] mode of opening the Stop Cock with a quadrant pinion, etc

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] Portsmouth Dock Yard [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich [p.p. Yard Officers, recommending William Vernon, a nephew of the Master of the Metal Mills, to be made Pro-Foreman due to the 'continued infirmity' of John Ollis, Foreman of the Metal Mills. See also /925]

3p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] P[ortsmouth] Yd. [to Navy] Bd./[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams, re] trial of an apparatus for forming Iron Hoops for Masts, proposed by Mr Wm Kingston, Master Millwt [at the Yard]

4p on 1 leaf

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to] Navy Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], T A [et al, re plan of] Capt Charles Phillips proposing the working of the Chain Pumps on ... Ships by means of a Capstan Motion

6p on 2 leaves

[Notes], Ports. Yard/[S Goodrich, re] Experiments made between the Bellows now in use at the Smith's Shop and Mr Street's Bellows lately put up there

2p on 1 leaf

Estimate of Expense for covering 100 feet with Copper Sheathing

1p

[Draft] Estimate for Hoses for Truscott's Pumps/[S Goodrich]

2p on 1 leaf

[Note] Weevil [to Dock Yard Officers]/The Master Cooper, [re] Value of the Iron bound casks ... for use in Hydraulic Bellows

1p

[Draft report] Portsmo.Yd. [to Navy Board/Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams, J P [et al, re trial of hose made by Wm Alf'd Noble]

2p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] London [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, [re his visit to S Wales to inspect machinery for making chain cables, and with particular reference to Messrs Brown & Co of Newbridge. Mentions Messrs Foreman and Thompson Co Iron Works, Merthyr Tydfil; Messrs Brown & Co, Mill Wall]

12p on 6 leaves

[Draft report] Portsmouth Yard [to Navy Board]/S Goodrich, [having received from the Board a copy of a letter from Arthur French, agent to the patentee (Mr Bennet) of the 'Convolving Axletree with an Iron Nave']

4p on 2 leaves

[Letter] Navy Office [to] S Goodrich/Navy Comr. Percy Fraser, [requesting information re pure iron after Goodrich's visit to S Wales]

2p on 1 leaf

[Draft letter] Portsmouth Yard [to Navy] Board/[Officers] S Goodrich, N D[iddams], T G [et al, re crane delivered to the Yard by Messrs Lloyd & Ostell; suggesting a reduction in price]

2p on 1 leaf