UNITED PUMPING ASSOCIATION.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2640, 25 June 1877, Page 2

UNITED PUMPING ASSOCIATION.

The following letter appeared in Saturday's Herald :— TO THB EDITOB. Slß,~Your readers on perusal of a recent., letter on tbe above subject will naturally infer that plans, &c, for all the neceeenry requirements, post, present, and future, are iv existence, /and w?ro prepared by the former manager. Such, however, is no'u the casr, a clean sweep being made of all drawings connected with the works when & change of officers took place, aud siueo then draw* ings for all the work required have been executed on the promises. Your correspondent states thut wKen lie designed the above works, a second " hydrostatic counterpoise " was then included in the requirements for sinking to 600 feet. Perhaps it would have been better if he had designed to do without the counterpoise. Had there been a little calculation mixed up with the design in 1872, this second counterpoise could hare been dispensed with $ but the pump rods were made of such gigantic proportions, and of the heaviest limber procurable, that by the time I the 600 feet was reached the rods, &c, were 43 tone heavier than the column of water required them to be. To get 40 tons adrift in 600 feet is, I should say, rather too much to take credit for, and it appears to me that the second counterpoise has been lately erected— some people might lay, more with a view to correct former mictikes than to follow up the designs of 1872. Regarding the ventilation, which be cays was all planned, the prevent mode adopted is as different from the former plan proposedjKs-*saet,j», distant from the west, inasraj^^is the air travels the opposite direclibu ; there n»e t.z fi.-naVes, and consequently no chance of fireworks. .Regarding the steam capstan I can find none—whoever saw a plan, -or head one mentioned, except in an estimate some years ago, when money was to be voted for the works. I* these arrangemenls were all pianned it was an error oi judgment on the part of the former man* agemeut not to carry them out. Seeing that he. failed :.o do co, I am at a loss to see how he can now t^ke any credit for what he never periormed.—l am, &i. s Fiat Jtjstitia bitat Cmiroc.