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Report of the Judges on the 
*4227 Holmes and Sons. 
*4912 Willsher, J. C. 
4894 Brown and May. 
4991 Tasker, W., and Sons. 
2927 Reading Iron Works Company, Limited, 
14245 Turner, E. R. and F. 
5037 Hindley, E. S. 
2950 Barrows and Stewart. 
4004 Ashby, Jeffery, and Luke. 
Of these engines those marked with an asterisk did not run ; 
the causes which prevented them from so doing are stated below. 
The one marked, f though it ran, could not compete for the 
prizes ; the reason will appear in the description of the trial of 
this engine. 
4975. Wallis and Steevens. — This engine had not arrived at the time of the 
commencement of trial, and it was tlierelore thrown out from the competition. 
4896. Tuxford and Sons. — Unhappily the boss of the fly-wheel of this engine 
cracked, and occasioned the trial to be stopped. 
The exhibitor was directed to rei»ir the boss, and was informed that he 
would then be allowed to go on with the trial. Instead of repairing the boss 
,he inadvertently provided himself with a fly-wheel, belonging to another 
exhibitor. It was felt that if it were once allowed to an exhibitor to have a 
machine tried, some portion of which was not made for the machine — was not 
even purchased for it, but was merely on loan — it might cause much 
irregularity hereafter. On these grounds it was impossible to allow the trial 
to proceed. 
5043. JStejJicn Lewin. — This engine, while on the " brake,"' suffered so much 
from a hot hearing, that the trial was (with the fullest consent of the exhibitor) 
stopped ; and the engine was withdrawn from competition. 
4227. Holmes and Sons. — This engine did not come to trial. 
4912. J. C. Willsher. — Unhappily the fly-wheel boss of this engine was broken 
<jn the journey, and at the same time the shaft was bent, and thus a trial 
became impossible. 
As the engines were to be tried to ascertain to what extent 
they were under the control of their governors, it became neces- 
sary not to throw the governor out of work ; this throwing out 
of work was the course pursued on former occasions, with the 
object of ensuring that the throttle-valves should be wide open 
at the end of the preliminary run, and also at the end of the 
final run ; but the throttle-valve being now left in gear, some 
other means had to be devised to prevent advantage being taken 
of any difference between the area of the opening for the steam 
at the end of the final run, and the area of that opening at the 
end of the preliminary run. 
A " notice " was therefore issued that, on the preliminary run, 
the pressure of steam at which the engine first fell below the de- 
clared speed would be recorded ; and that in the final run the 
trial would be stopped as soon as the pressure fell to the same 
