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We awarded the prize to Mr. Whitehead, of Preston, for 

 superior work, both as to number and quantity of pipes produced 

 (when compared with the other machines) ; the excellent perform- 

 ance of this machine deserves especial notice. 



William Shaw, Cotton, Northampton, 

 T. W. Granger, Stretham Grange, Ely. 



General Report by Mr. Amos. 



The city of Gloucester was well chosen for the place of 

 meeting, and, had the weather been propitious, a much larger 

 concourse of visitors would no doubt have attended, and embraced 

 the opportunity of viewing the collection of implements, which 

 were there produced for their inspection, and were certainly of a 

 higher class, and of generally better workmanship, than have 

 appeared at any former year. 



For some years after the Society commenced its operations, it 

 granted, at its shows, nearly unlimited space to exhibitors, which 

 had the tendency of inducing them to bring too many articles of 

 one description ; thus, in fact, making it more a market for their 

 ready-made articles, than an exposition of samples of their skill. 

 Some salutary regulations have had the effect of checking the 

 evil, and rendering the show more in character with the object 

 of the Society ; and any particular machine now exhibited is 

 not brought so much with a view of selling it, but is intended to 

 show the public a specimen of the skill of the exhibitor, and of 

 what he is capable of producing. Hence, the statistics given in 

 the following table will place prominently before the reader the 

 increasing usefulness of the Society, for, notwithstanding the 

 before-mentioned check, the articles exhibited have not decreased 

 in number, and at the same time have increased in variety and 

 value : — 



A Table showing the Number of Exhibitors and the Value of the Articles 



Exhibited. 



Date. 



Place of Meeting. 



Number 

 of Exhibitors. 



Number 

 of Articles 

 Exhibited. 



Value. 











£ s. d. 



1848 





158 



1640 



16,215 16 1 



1849 



Norwich .... 



145 



1362 



19,150 13 1 



1850 





118 



1197 



12,182 10 7 



1852 





103 



1722 



19,121 5 8 



1853 



Gloucester .... 



121 



1803 



24,112 4 10 



The judges of implements in the several departments have 

 the facts before them, which enable them to report more fully 



