504 Trials of Traction- Engines at Wolverliampton. 
Exhibitor's Name. 
No. of 
Article. 
Nominal 
horse- power. 
Load to be 
drawn as 
declared on 
the Saturday. 
Load to be 
drawn as 
declared on 
the Monday. 
Load actually 
drawn on the 
Monday'. 
AveliDg and Porter 
Eansonies, Sims,) 
and Head(Suther-i 
l!lnfl^ 1 
Burrell's (.Loco.) .. 
Tuxford 
}?urreirs (Pot-boiler) 
Aveliug and Porter 
7002 
2149 
36G0 
390 
3001 
7001 
6 
8 
8 
10 
8 
10 
Tons. 
13 
8 
8 
7J 
10 
20h 
Tons. 
6^ 
5 
' 2 
7i 
5 
10 
Tons. 
5J 
1 Left its loaded 
< waggon ou 
1 tlie course. 
7 
withdrew, 
ditto. 
9 
The loads declared are placed against the engine of each 
exhibitor in the above Table. The exhibitors all reserved to 
themselves the power of altering their load in the event of wet ; 
and in the same Table there is a column showing the load for 
which thej eventually declared on the Monday. The Sunday 
liad been a day of almost unceasing heavy rain, so that, on the 
arrival at the trial-field on Monday morning, the ground was 
found to be thoroughly sodden, and on the Monday itself, and 
especially during part of the trial of Ransomes, Sims, and Head's 
pot-boiler and indiarubber-tyre engine, No. 2149, there were 
heavy storms of rain. Looking at the state of the ground, the 
exhibitors on Alonday morning declared to reduce their loads 
<lown to the weights stated in the Table. It will be seen that two 
engines, namely, Messrs. Tuxlbrd and Sons, No. 390, and Mr. 
Charles Burrell's Thomson Pot Boiler, No. 3616, did not start, 
IVIr. Barford, of Amies and Barford, early in the day, said that 
lie was not concerned with Messrs. Tuxford's engine, except as 
an implement to drive his ploughing gear, that he had no efficient 
driver or stoker, and that (to use his own words) he was quite 
prepared to put up with any amount of indignity he might receive, 
ljut he really could not undertake to run the engine round the 
course ; moreover, he wanted the engine at Stafford to drive his 
ploughing machinery there. Mr. Burrcll at the outset of Monday 
morning intended to run his pot boiler with indiarubber tyres 
over the course ; but when he saw the fate that befell Messrs. 
Ransomes, Sims, and Head's pot-boiler and indiarubber-tyre 
engine, he determined not to run his engine, as he said he had 
no reason to expect that his engine could do any better than 
Messrs. Rausome's, and it was manifestly idle for such engines 
to compete, the soil being in the condition in which it was. 
Aveling and Porter's 6-IJorse-power Emjinc. — The first engine that went 
round was Messrs. Aveliug and Porters 6-liorse-po\ver, No. 7002. This engine 
weighed at the time she started on the course, including water and coals, 
about 5 tons 4z cwts. 
