Awards at Salishuri/ : Medals. sxxiii 



Thojias Milford and Sons, of Thorverton : the Prize of Four Sovereigns, 

 for their Cranked-axle One-Horse Cart for general purposes ; invented 

 and manufactured by themselves. 



William Busby, of Newton-le-Willo\vs : the Prize of Four Sovereigns, for his 

 One or Two Horse low-bodied and low-shafted Cart ; invented by William 

 Lister, of DunsaBank, and improved and manufactured by the Exhibitor. 



Albert and Theodore Fry, of Bristol : the Prize of Three Sovereigns, 

 for their General-Purpose Crank-axle Farm-Cart, for the easy loading 

 and unloading of every description of fai'm-produce ; invented, improved, 

 and manufactured by themselves. 



Alfred Crosskill, of Beverley : the Prize of Two Sovereigns, for his Cranked- 

 axle Cart ; invented, improved, and manufactured by himself. 



James and Frederick Howard, of Bedford : the Prize of Two Sovereigns, 

 for their Cranked-axle One-Horse Cart ; improved by, and manufactured 

 for, themselves. 



MEDALS. 



Egbert and John PiEEVes, of Bratton, near Westbury : a Silver Medal, for 

 their Economical Dry-Manure and Seed Drill, for drilling artificial manure 

 in its pure state without admixture with ashes ; invented and manufac- 

 tured by themselves. 



James and Frederick Howard, of Bedford : a Silver Medal, for their 

 Drill-Presser, intended to follow three ploughs, and, in addition to 

 ]iressing the furrows, to deposit and cover the seed at one operation ; 

 improved and manufactured by themselves. 



Thomas Milford and Son, of Thorverton : a Silver Medal, for their Model 

 One-Horse Cart, for general farm, road, and harvest purposes, in which 

 the shafts are attached in such a manner as to attain a straight line of 

 draught from the axle ; invented by Frank P. Milford, of Thorverton, 

 and manufactured by the Exhibitors. 



Thomas Pain, of Laverstock Hall, near Salisbury : a Silver Medal, for his 

 Iron Turf-paring Plough, intended to supersede the old Breast-plough, 

 and to cut and turn up turf to any thickness ; invented by himself, and 

 manufactured by Brown and May, of Devizes. 



Samuel Rowsell, of Buckland St. Mary, near Chard : a Silver Medal, for 

 his American Iron-pointed Horse-Pake, for collecting hay, raking com, 

 or gathering stubble; invented, improved, and manufactured by himself. 



CoTTAM and CoTTAM, of St. Pancras Iron AVorks, Old St. Pancras Eoad, 

 London : a Silver Medal, for their set of Collar-bar Sheep Hurdles, in 

 which the collars are welded on the horizontal bars, and threaded alter- 

 nately through the upright bars in such a manner, that the centre- 

 upright is retained in its position, while the bars, being confined at short 

 bearings, and acting as tension-rods, acquire double strength ; invented 

 and manufactured by themselves. 



Perreaux and Co., 39, Mark-Lane, London : a Silver Medal, for their 

 Two-and-half-inch vulcanised India-Rubber Pump-A"alve, which takes 

 the form of a tube flattened at one extremity similar to the mouth-piece 

 of a hautbois, and the thickness of the sides or walls diminishes .gradually 

 to the top, where the two sides meet and form two lips, which being 

 flexible and elastic open and close on the slightest pressure, and allow any 

 foreign substance in the fluid to pass through them without interfering 

 with or deranging the action of the valves ; invented by Louis Guillaume 

 Perreaux, of Paris, and manufactured by the Exhibitors. 

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