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For filling the delivery-cans the shafts can be raised, thus 
bringing- the cans to the proper level, and avoiding the necessity of 
lifting them when full. The milk can either be dipped from the 
can, or drawn away by the tap. A box in front is useful for 
carrying eggs, butter, &c. Provision is made for locking the 
cans, so as to minimise the shaking of the contents. Two 
adjustable seats are provided, and a box for books ; also a cover 
or tilt to keep ofT the rain. Each of the delivery-cans holds 
20 gallons. The price complete, including the arrangements 
for swinging cans, is 26/. The cart alone is 19/. lO.s. For 
carrying cans to the railway, four cans can be carried easily, and 
possibly six at a pinch. Beyond its special province, this cart 
would be useful on a farm for many purposes, carrying small 
live-stock, cake, corn, cScc. &c. 
Messrs. Western and Co., of the Chaddesden Works, Derby, 
exhibited, in connection with one of their circular saws, pro- 
bably the greatest novelty in the Showyard, viz., a Dynamo- 
Electric Machine, driven by an eight-horse-power engine, which, 
by means of a strand of copper wires, insulated with india- 
rubber, transmitted the electricity to a similar machine, which 
drove a 36-inch circular saw, the motor being connected to the 
countershaft of the saw-bench by an ordinary coupling. The 
batteries, which were supplied by Siemens and Co., cost 101. 
each, and the wire 4/. per 100 yards. There is practically no 
limit to the distance to which the current can be conveyed — 
always provided that the first cost of the conductor does not prove 
too great for the undertaking. The merit claimed, and I think 
justly claimed, for this novel process of communicating force is, 
that when the motive-power — a water-wheel or other natural 
power — is required to operate at a distance, it can be trans- 
mitted, without appreciable loss, by a wire readily fixed. For 
instance, such machinery might be used upon an estate, when 
water-power was available, to cut up timber, drive agricultural 
machinery, &c., at points remote from the power. 
An effective carriage-lamp is an article of considerable value 
to the traveller by road, and is also of great use for traction- 
engines, which must, in many cases, travel by night. The 
ordinary carriage-lamps have so little reflective power that they 
only serve to make darkness visible. The remarkable efficacy 
of James Westaways " Guidance Lamp " depends upon the 
presence of patent hinged wing-reflectors, which are attached to 
each side of the lamp, and shut close to the glass when not in use, 
and opened to any required angle when in use. The light is 
concentrated and reflected to the ground in front of the carriage, 
each reflector being capable of showing a ray of light superior 
to that from the lamp itself. It is said that the light from each. 
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