On Thursday, September 27, 2007 5:00 PM [GMT+1=CET], Ray Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Curved Balance Beams on the Regents? > > > > When the paired locks were side by side, on pair of balance beams were > curved so that they fitted over the other, The one surviving set or paired locks, at Hampstead Road, has straight balance beams at different heights, which afre actually quite uncomfortable to work. > I'm sure I've seen this in the Shepherd illustrations of the > Regents... The Shepherd drawing of City Road locks shows straigth beams on the outside and what appear to be cranked, rather than curved, beams on the inside. It's not very specific about how the inside beams overlooked one another. Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk No man is an island. So is Man.
