Apparently one of the ways to reduce
>this was to sink the lower cylinder below the engine-house floor.
>
>
>My questions are these - Is there an extent engine house which was
>built for a Sims’ engine? Is there anywhere a drawing of a Sims’
>engine-house? Can anyone comment on Sims’ compound engines?
>
Dave,
The Knap Down (Combe Martin) is largely intact but not readily accessible to
the public. It was built on sloping ground so the lower cylinder was below
ground level at the rear of the house and the structure was no much higher
than a standard house. Photos. and sketch plans in Exmoor's Industrial
Archaeology.
The only other Sims house I have examined in detail is that later converted
to a single cylinder on the summit section of the Kennet and Avon Canal
(it's name currently escapes me) - where the bed-stone is still in situ.
The engine at Gourt copper mine, near Molland, in north Devon was a Sims but
it was an all-indoor engine evidently mounted on a frame.
Peter
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