PEF . ..-is 1 THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT ENGINEER, l^p 



11-|11/ bre out of 28lbs. of Flax-straw. See the editors 



report. 



The experiment made by working my former patent 

 machines for breaking and scutching Flax and hemp, from 

 retted-str$,w r , sent over by Messrs. Prichard and Mourneron, 

 merchants, Paris (with whom I left a quantity of samples of 

 all kinds of fibres prepared by my patents, during the 

 "Exhibition of Industry," in Paris, in 1855, where I 

 exhibited similar specimens), is another proof of the value and 

 importance of my machines; and I can refer to Mons 

 J. B. Pastoureau Labesse, as he took a note in his pocket- 

 book of the work done, , and said I might refer to him 'c? 

 any time. 



. HEMP AND FLAX PREPARED BY DICKSON'S 

 PATENTS. 



April lUli, 1S56, J 



The following was the 'result from preparing by the 

 machinery alone : A portion of four bales of hemp and 

 Flax-straw, obtained from the committee of the Flax Society 

 of .Brittany, by merchants in Paris, was sent to Mr, Dicksou 

 to ascertain what he could produce from them by hir- 

 machinery. The Hemp and Flax-straw had boci,- retttri, 

 (steeped in water), the usual way of preparing in Fr. 



The French Government Engineer, Mons. J. B. Pastoureau 

 .Labesse,* was sent from Paris by the government to examine 

 the machinery, and witness the working and results. R. M. 

 Jones, Esq., Tooley Street, Southwark, and several other 

 gentlemen were also present. 



* This gentleman weighed the 1 . traw before ar.d ; iter it '\va> . 



broken and scutched, and took a note of it in his pocket-book, and gave UK\ 

 leave to refer to him as to the quantity produced clean \ by the machines. 

 T.H.D. 



