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can anyone out there please help me im looking for plans drawings or even just a photo or two of any model lancashire boiler
im seriously thinking of makeing one roughly 7" diametre and 16" length for a few reasons
first i have a fair few engines but have no boiler for them and if im gonna do something like this i might aswell do it big and bold
seacond reason is my grandfathers brother is an engineer and has been since 1949
bu is a little past it but says it can be done safely with the right guidance right at the moment he gave me an old leather folder wallet type file thingy with photographs of the firm his grandfather started and i believe is still in opperation to this day wich was called C H Thompson boiler works
according to the information in the folder the original C H Thompson developed the first prototype lancashire boiler in the mid 1800s the original drawings for tis boiler were so badly faded and rotten in this folder that they are all but completely illegible being ink drawn blueprints but there is a picture on my uncle tommys wall of his grandfather stood in a large industrial type room with a model of this boiler on the bench next to him and working it out off the picture i estimate its dimensions being roughly 7" by 16"
i have even gone as far as contacting the boiler firm to see if they have any archive information on this venture but they came back with the answer that it was true the boiler did exist and he did build it and made a hell of a lot of money off it but they couldnt find any documentation on this boiler in the way of drawings exept there were only one set of drawings ever drafted and 6 ofn this type of boiler were used on the building of titanic but i aint abbout to go to the wrecksite to see the damn things
can anyone help me please
im seriously thinking of makeing one roughly 7" diametre and 16" length for a few reasons
first i have a fair few engines but have no boiler for them and if im gonna do something like this i might aswell do it big and bold
seacond reason is my grandfathers brother is an engineer and has been since 1949
bu is a little past it but says it can be done safely with the right guidance right at the moment he gave me an old leather folder wallet type file thingy with photographs of the firm his grandfather started and i believe is still in opperation to this day wich was called C H Thompson boiler works
according to the information in the folder the original C H Thompson developed the first prototype lancashire boiler in the mid 1800s the original drawings for tis boiler were so badly faded and rotten in this folder that they are all but completely illegible being ink drawn blueprints but there is a picture on my uncle tommys wall of his grandfather stood in a large industrial type room with a model of this boiler on the bench next to him and working it out off the picture i estimate its dimensions being roughly 7" by 16"
i have even gone as far as contacting the boiler firm to see if they have any archive information on this venture but they came back with the answer that it was true the boiler did exist and he did build it and made a hell of a lot of money off it but they couldnt find any documentation on this boiler in the way of drawings exept there were only one set of drawings ever drafted and 6 ofn this type of boiler were used on the building of titanic but i aint abbout to go to the wrecksite to see the damn things
can anyone help me please