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placed at their disposal by Mr. Crompton, of the Rifle Brigade. 
All the engines arrived safely at their destination, and were 
paraded in front of the railway station at Stafford before the 
arrival of the 12 o'clock London train. As a Committee of 
the House of Lords was then considering the question of legis- 
lation with regard to traction-engines, it was hoped that this 
exhibition of them might furnish some information which 
might be valuable. 
At 2 P.M. on the same afternoon, Messrs. Fowler's double set 
of 20-horse engines was set to work, and was followed in succes- 
sion by all the sets of tackle that had been in competition ; thus 
enabling the public to see all the different systems at work, and 
to form their own opinion as to their various merits. The difli- 
culty of keeping so many engines supplied with water was well 
provided for by Mr. Elphick, who had each set ready to commence 
work in its turn without loss of time. 
The Stewards felt it their duly to report to the Council that 
one of the engines used in Class 2 proved to be considerably over 
the limited weight (10 tons). They regretted that the heads of 
the firm were not able to attend the trial, and they are willing 
to believe that this might have been an oversight on the part of 
their representative, but it is clearly as imperative on exhibitors 
of implements to take care that their implements conform to the 
regulations, and agree with the description in the catalogue, as 
it is on the exhibitors of live stock. 
In this Class there was a doubt whether it was the intention of 
the Council that a detached windlass should be included in the 
weight of the engine. The wording, however, of No. 1 paragraph 
in the conditions appeared to give the Stewards no option but to 
include it. 
In Class 3 objection was raised to the entries of Messrs. Hayes 
and Fisken, on the ground that one required to apply a pulley, and 
the other a groove fly-wheel to the " ordinary agricultural engine" 
before they could be worked by it. Though perhaps in strictness 
they might have been disqualified, they were allotted their trial- 
plot with the others. 
Amongst the Miscellaneous Articles the Judges found nothing 
that they considered worthy of a Silver Medal ; but they awarded 
one to the principle of the revolving mould-board, as applied to 
the plough entered for cultivating hop-gardens, though they did 
rot consider the implement itself at present suitable for that 
purpose. 
Slowlangloft Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, 
Aurjust 1st, 1871. 
