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Report on the Exhibition of Implements 
specimens of vehicles which had partaken but little of modern 
improvement, no previous exhibition approached the present 
either in the variety or excellence of many of the carriages 
adapted to the numerous uses of the agriculturist. Amongst the 
builders of these implements Mr. Richard Stratton, of Bristol, 
shines conspicuously. 
To him the Society's prize of 20/. was awarded for his spring- 
waggon on the equirotal cross-lock principle, referred to in the 
Bristol report. On the present occasion it was improved in its 
details, mounted on springs, and furnished with Thatcher's breaks. 
It will be understood that the fore-wheels are of the same size as 
the hind ones, which must considerably diminish the draught. 
It had a pole, driving-seat, foot-board, and patent axles. Mr. 
Stratton estimates the saving in draught arising from springs as 
equal to .30 or 35 per cent., in which opinion he is borne out by 
well-known experiments. This waggon turns in a sufficiently- 
small space ; and the adapting such a carriage to the general pur- 
poses of road and field does the highest credit to Mr. Stratton as 
a builder and mechanician. In price it did not exceed that 
attached to several ancient clumsy waggons exhibited. 
The same maker also produced a variety of other waggons, as 
well as single-horse carts on springs, applicable to general or 
more special uses ; and the Judges have to notice witii high com- 
mendation a market and family cart on springs, the arrangements 
and finish of which were of the first style of workmanship. The 
observation, however, may be made that some small deduction 
from the comforts of this vehicle may be advisedly spared in 
order to reduce it safely below the duty price. 
The silver medal was adjudged to Mr. Stratton for a low 
manure tipping-cart, with a liquid-manure cistern body to fit. 
This cart combines a number of excellent properties. The cranked 
axles so reduce the height of the cart-chest from the ground as 
greatly to diminish the labour of filling. The chest tips upon 
the line of the axles, which is the only true place for effecting 
that operation ; and it is retained in place by a spring-catch, or 
adjusted to any angle for discharging, in the simplest and safest 
manner. The liquid-manure body is 5 feet long, by 3 feet 
3 inches wide, and 20 inches deep, containing about 169 gallons, 
or about 15 cwt. ; which, with the weight of the body, pump, &c., 
brings the whole to about 23 cwt., and therefore within the power 
of a single horse. The removal of one body and affixing the other 
is performed with the greatest ease by one man. This adaptation 
of solid and liquid manure bodies to the same wheels, axles, and 
shafts, is strongly recommended to the attention of agriculturists. 
Mr. Daniel Coombes, of Shipton, near Burford, Oxon, intro- 
duced a novelty, by rendering two single-horse carts convertible 
