454 Saddle and Sirloin. 



compass the twelve acres and report upon the things 

 which they had seen and heard. To us the task seems 

 about equivalent to describing Niagara. The first 

 shop we enter is the turning, fitting, and erecting de- 

 partment, filled with lathes and slotting and drilling 

 machines in great variety. Three cranes traverse the 

 top of the erecting-shop, and lift all the heavier engine- 

 fittings on to the boilers. Here we counted twenty- 

 eight portable and two fixed engines in process of erec- 

 tion, and three old ones in for repairs. A side-door leads 

 into the stores, where a large number of connecting- 

 rods, cylinders, chimneys like huge inverted hats, 

 governors which regulate the pace by their ball-laden 

 arms, and all the other component parts of engines, 



employed at Lincoln, and about 400 more at the branch workshops at 

 Vienna and Pesth. 



The first catalogue was published in 1850. In 1855 it was translated 

 into German and French for the Paris International Exhibition, and 

 gradually into nearly all the European languages. It had to record no 

 common triumph, the firm having taken a leading position at all the in- 

 ternational exhibitions — namely, the prize medal in London, 1 85 1 ; the 

 first-class medal at Paris, 1855; two prize medals in London, 1862; and 

 a gold medal at Paris, 1867, for portable engines and thrashing machines. 

 At the Royal Bury Meeting, in 1867, every first prize for steam-engines 

 (against twenty-five competitors), as well as 15/. for a finishing thrashing 

 machine, and a silver medal for special improvements, fell to their lot. 

 Besides these, a great number of medals and money prizes have been 

 gained by them at Royal and local shows in England and on the Conti- 

 nent. Up to the present time the firm has sent out over 9700 engines 

 and 8600 thrashing machines. The great corn-growing districts on the 

 Danube have been one of its principal foreign spheres, and for more 

 than ten years past it has supplied Hungary, Wallachia, Bessarabia, 

 South Russia, Australia, Chili, &c. Besides the branches at Vienna and 

 Pesth already referred to, the firm has established agencies in all parts 

 of the world. Their finishing machines and their engines are to be 

 found, as a writer in the Mechanics' Magazine puts it, ' ' not merely in 

 the happy homesteads of England, but also in the steppes of Russia, 

 the pusztas of Hungary, the Canadian prairies, and in the Australian 

 bush." In short, by the system of complete division of labour which 

 has been adopted, and the introduction of special machine tools classi- 

 fied according to the variety of work to be done, a degree of perfection 

 in the workmanship is reached which can be attained by no other 



