696 Report on Implements at Preston. 
No. 1660. It was a matter of comment in the Showjard that 
these whippletrees were not entered in the Catalogue for com- 
petition. They had, however, been duly so entered by the 
exhibitors, and the omission of the words " for competition " 
was accidental. 
In Class V., for Three-horse Whippletrees, Knapp and Co. 
did not compete. All the exhibitors arranged the horses abreast, 
except Ransomes, who placed them at first abreast, and in a 
second trial put two horses tandem-fashion in the furrow, and 
one on the land. 
Brenton in this, and in Class VI., laid aside his rolled steel 
and employed tubular iron spreaders, strengthened in the centre 
by a short piece of extra tube shrunk on, with chains instead of 
rods. These trees proved to be too long for good work. 
T. Corbett, in each of his entries in this class, had the pomel- 
tree of ash, and the whippletrees flat steel bars. In No. 2438, 
Fig. &.—Mr. T. Corbett's Three-horse Wlippletree, No. 2438. 
at each extremity of the pomel-tree, a compensating bar is 
attached by a link at one-third of its length. The long end 
of this lever carries the inner trace for each of the outside 
horses. To the short end of each lever a flat steel whippletree 
is linked. The outer ends of these whippletrees carry the out- 
side trace of an outside horse, while their inner ends carry the 
trees for the horse that walks in the middle. It will be seen 
that in this very ingenious arrangement, and in their still more 
complicated one in Class VT., no horse has its two traces 
attached to the same whippletree, the consequence being that 
with every variation of draught each horse has one trace taut 
and the other one slack, — a fatal defect. 
In their entry No. 2439 each horse drew from its own whipple- 
tree, but there was no attempt to equalise the draught of the 
middle horse, his tree being simply linked to the centre of 
the pomel-tree. 
