66 AGRICULTURAL ENGINES. 



out to make room for a ne\v and larger engine for our saw-mills. 

 The chain-wheel for driving was made here, it did not belong 

 to it originally." l 



" My father (then the foreman boiler-maker) about twenty- 

 four years ago took the old engine from the scrap heap, where 

 it had been for many years, and set it to work in the tool shop. 

 My father said it had come from Tehidy as old iron." 2 



The use of the high-pressure steam agricultural 

 engine was not confined to Cornwall. Mr. H. Pape, 

 still carrying on business in Hazeldine and Rastrick's 

 old engine manufactory at Bridgenorth, says : 



"My father worked as a smith under Mr. Kastrick. Mr. 

 Hazeldine had the foundry when Trevithick's engines were 

 made, and have heard my father speak of them. I have seen 

 three of them at work in Bridgenorth ; one of them at 

 Mr. Jasper's flour-mill, it drove four stones, and continued in 

 work up to 1837 ; one at Sing's tan-yard worked up to 1840 ; 

 and one was on Mr. Jasper's farm at Stapleford for doing farm 

 work. Mr. Smith, now on the farm, worked it up to about 1858. 



" The engines that worked in Bridgenorth had cast-iron 

 cylinders for the outer casing of the boiler, one cylinder for 

 small engines, three or four cylinders bolted together for the 

 larger ones. The fire-tube was wrought iron, the chimney stood 

 up by the fire-door. The cylinder was let down into the boiler ; 

 it worked with a four-way cock. There was a piston-rod, cross- 

 head, two guide-rods on the top of the cylinder, and two side 

 rods to the crank and pin in 'the fly-wheel.' " 3 



" My first husband had to do with the foundry ; his father, 

 Mr. Hazeldine, was a partner with .Mr. Davies and Co. in 1816. 

 In 1817 the partnership was broken up, and the foundry car- 

 ried on by Hazeldine. I used to have two or three drawers full 

 of drawings and account-books that were brought from the 



1 Recollections of Mr. Warren, master ship-builder, Harvey and Co., 1869. 



2 Recollections of Mr. Burral, jim., master boiler-maker, Harvey and Co., 

 1869. 



3 Recollections of Mr. William H. Pape, Bridgenorth, 13th June, 1869. 



