Great Britain Machinery in Motion. 



Yet, numerous and grave as are the deficiencies in these important respects, it is impossible 

 to review even the brief investigation in which we have been engaged without perceiving that 

 in more ways than we can appreciate, the use of machinery is tending to complicate the imme- 

 morial simplicity of fishing, and this is a point of the utmost significance to those who have at 

 heart the welfare of our fishermen. For if there be one axiom inculcated beyond all others 

 by the general history of trade, it is that unless the economic keep pace with the mechanical 

 machinery, the latter will tend constantly to increase the advantages of capital relatively to 

 those of labour. For machinery, as we have seen, involves capital, and capital presupposes the 

 almost insuperable advantage that it can afford to wait. Thus to the decay of the medieval 

 guilds, those close but strictly co-operative corporations, may be traced no small portion of the 

 convulsions experienced in the industrial world consequent upon the enormous increase of 

 commerce during the last and the present centuries ; and the strikes and lock-outs, whereby the 

 respective bodies of artisans and proprietors have beaten each other into some acknowledgment 

 of the rights of each, form but an inefficient and unstable substitute for the organisation which 

 blended the two elements in harmonious growth. Signs are not wanting that a similar 

 atrophy may be setting in with regard to this industry also. The system of apprenticeship, 

 which, whether good bad or indifferent, at all events preserved the distinctiveness of the 

 pursuit, is fast becoming extinct. Casuals take the place of seamen for a voyage or two, and 

 then return to their own occupations on shore. Complaints are heard on every side that the 

 owners of vessels experience continual loss through the refusal of the hands to fulfil their 

 legitimate engagements. These are all symptoms that the economical machinery of distribution 

 hag not kept pace in development with the mechanical machinery of production; and the very 

 improvements to which we now point in triumph as evidence of increased prosperity may 

 prove, unless accompanied by a corresponding advance in the condition of our fishermen, to be 

 the instruments whereby we may come to lose that hardy and invaluable race for ever. 



W. M. ADAMS. 



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694<*. DAVEY, PAXMAN & CO., Engineers, Colchester. (1) Double 

 Cylinder Horizontal Engine, 350 I.H.P. (2) Horizontal Compound Engine, 200 I.H.P. (3) 

 Three Semi-fixed Engines and Boilers, 25 H.P. nominal. (4) One Semi-portable Engine, 

 20 H.P. (5) Group of five Locomotive Boilers. 



6945. KINGSFORD, COURTNEY. Lea Chemical Works, Victoria Park, 

 London, E. (1) Model of Kingsford's Patent Steam Boiler and Coke Ovens. By this arrange- 

 ment the entire cost of fuel required in generating steam is saved. The coke made (which is 

 of good hard- quality) is readily sold fora higher sum than that paid for the coals. It has 

 been working more than twelvemonths most satisfactorily. 



695. HALL, J. & E., 23 St. Swithin's Lane, E.G., and Dartford Iron Works, 

 Kent. (1) Patent Cold- Air Machine, for preservation of fish on board ship and on shore. (2) 

 Patent Cold- Air Machine for fish stores and shops, worked by gas engine. (3) 18 Horse- 

 power Boiler on Armer's patent principle. 



696. BARTON, C. E., Providence Works, 56 & 58 Eastgate, Great 

 Grimsby. (1) Six Ice-breaking Machines for hand and steam power. (2) Two Fish 

 Barrows. (3) One Fish Kitt. (4) One Fish Weighing Machine. (5) Two Dogs for moving 

 block ice. 



697. PISTON FREEZING MACHINE AND ICE COMPANY, 301 

 ami 303 Oxford Street, W. (1) Ash's Patent Self-feeding Dry Air Refrigerators. (2) Ash's 

 Patent Filtering Refrigerator. (3) Ash's Patent Piston Freezing Machine and Wine Cooler. 



698. CLOWES & SONS, Limited, Duke Street, Stamford Street, S.E. 

 Printing Machinery. 



699. BROOKE, J. W., Adrian Iron Works, Lowestoft. (1) One 3-inch 

 Adrian Double Action Pump for ship u>e, &c. (2) One 4-inch Adrian Double Action Pump 

 for general purposes, especially circulating water in fish ponds ; driven with gas engine. 



ANDERSON, ABBOTT, AND ANDERSON, 



INDIA-RUBBER & OILSKIN MANUFACTURERS. 



Works : LIMEHOUSE, LONDON. 



87, I 9 and 10, I 16 and 17, I 8, 



Queen Victoria St., High Street, Castle Street, Hue Martel, 



. liO'NDO'N. BRISTOL. I SWANSEA. PARIS. 



