BRUNEL, RAILWAYS AND ENGINEERING Collection of forty-nine nineteenth century engineering drawing...

BRUNEL, RAILWAYS AND ENGINEERING Collection of forty-nine nineteenth century engineering drawings and plans relating to I.K. Brunel's Great Western Railway Engineers Office, the Hammersmith & City Railway, Westbourne Park Station, and other projects, comprising: i) Great Western Railway Engineers' Office, Paddington: Twenty-one plans and technical drawings depicting various elements at Paddington Station (fencing, platform, goods frame etc.); others showing Spur Wheel, Bevel Wheel (dated in pencil July 1831) and gear wheels, steam engines, engine pumps (one dated 1840 and extensively annotated '...This is only a hand sketch drawn to no scale...') and other equipment; earlier group depicting 'London Oil Mill', inscribed, signed and dated by John Wallis Hammond ('J. Hammond 7 Dec 1830?' [date indistinct], 'Machine for Twisting Yarn', 'Machine for Winding Yarn', 'Machine for Winding Yarn' (2), 'Breast Water wheel from Mr Donkin April 1835 about who for', machinery from the 'Six Horse Sugar Mill', and other unidentified drawings, one with 1826 watermark, all but six bearing stamp of Great Western Railway 31051 or 30764 Engineers Office, Paddington ii) Railway Cranes: Four drawings comprising 'Hydraulic Cranes', dated 14 August 1856 and initialled 'HNS'; 2 Tons Crane, inscribed 'Glo'ster/ G. Wells Owen', dated 28 September 1857, stamped 'Note! This is no.28 of a set of 38 Drawings... not to be unbound...'; 5 Tons Station Crane supplied by the Cowans Sheldon & Company, Carlisle; 'GWR Outline of Twenty Tons Balance Crane' (inscribed with I.K. Brunel's home and office address '18 Duke Street' and dated indistinctly), all bearing stamp of Great Western Railway Engineers Offices, Paddington (nos.30751, 37243, 30759 and 30754) iii) Great Western Railway Pangbourne: Three coloured technical drawings providing specifications and calculations for railway contractors, comprising 'Drawing no.7: Blounts Bridge' and 'Drawing no.12: Oxford Road Bridge', showing elevation, longitudinal section, foundations, superstructure and transverse section of each, 'Blounts Bridge' bearing set of additional manuscript calculations; and 'Drawing no.3' showing cross sections of plans for digging a railway cutting, showing trees, strata and gradients, all stamped variously 'Note! This is no.16 [22, 29] of a set of 65 Drawings... not to be unbound...' iv) Hammersmith & City Railway: Fourteen drawings including coloured aerial plan of a section of the railway (showing Latimer Road, West London Railway, Bromley Road and Wood Lane); Notting Barns Bridge (detail of girders); Shepherd's Bush (bracket for underside of roof); Portobello Lane Bridge; Ladbroke Grove Station (decorative details for cast ironwork); Abutments at Wood Lane; Bromley Road Bridge (4, one dated 20 August 1862); Uxbridge Road Bridge; New Road Bridge (2); a plan by contractors Westwood & Baillie showing a turntable for the Shepherd's Bush terminus and London Yard Iron Works, ten bearing stamp of the London railway contractor C. Rummens, Bishopgate Street v) Engine House, Cardiff: Four plans relating to the construction of the engine house (two dated 10 June 1857, one dated 28 May 1857), three with stamp of W.G. Armstrong & Sons, Elswick Engine Works, Newcastle upon Tyne vi) Westbourne Park Station (GWR): Two plans, one showing plans and elevation of the station building, dated 16 November 1875; the other including the GWR Railway line, Green Lane Bridge and floor plan of the station, dated 1875, both with GWR 10388 Engineers Office Paddington stamp; pencil, ink and watercolour, dust-staining, discolouration, marks and creases, tears and small holes throughout, tape repairs, some taken from sketchbooks or trimmed from larger sheets, some larger plans made up of two sheets joined together, some linen backed, the majority mounted on thin card for conservation, various sizes largest c.765 x 1310mm. and smaller, c.1830's to 1870's (collection) Footnotes: ENGINEERING DRAWINGS FROM BRUNEL'S GREAT RAILWAY PROJECT AND THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AGE OF INDUSTRY. This wide-ranging collection comprises finely drawn technical drawings from a variety of sources dating from the 1830's to the mid 1870's, a good proportion of which bear the stamp and set numbers of the Great Western Railway's Engineers Office at Paddington. Of particular interest are the three coloured drawings of the Pangbourn [Pangbourne] Contract, part of Brunel's original Great Western Railway from Bristol to London which opened in 1841. These may be working copies used by Brunel's assistants on site, as another set of drawings signed by Brunel were retained at Brunel's offices in Duke Street. Some drawings from the office are held at the Network Rail Archive at York, but not all have survived the various reorganisations of the rail network from the 1960's onwards, making these a significant survival (S.S. Great Britain Trust: Brunel Institute Heritage Assessment). Whilst the majority relate to railway engineering, particularly projects relating to the GWR, a small but significant earlier group (seemingly part of a larger volume or sketchbook) concern industrial processes such as spinning, water and sugar mills. One of these drawings has been signed by John Wallis Hammond (1797-1847), resident civil engineer on the eastern section of the GWR. Prior to his appointment by Brunel in 1835, he was in partnership with his father John and brother Cornelius who were cork, rope, line and twine manufacturers in Rotherhithe. This may well explain how these industrial drawings came to be in the GWR office. Also of note is an unsigned plan for a 20-ton balance crane, which is the only drawing in the collection to be inscribed with I.K. Brunel's Duke Street address. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing