Report on the Trials of Implements at Oxford. 449 
So far in explanation : now for details of trials at the Oxford Show of 
1870:— 
Section I. — Class 1. 
Fixed Steam-engines of i-horse-power iviih Boiler complete. £20. 
Awards. 
7171. Clayton and Shuttleworth £9 0 
6891. Brown and May 6 0 
4009. Reading Iron Works Company £5 0 
7081. Marshall, Sons, and Co Highly commended. 
7110. Robey and Co. .. Icommended. 
7100. Davey, Taxman, and Davey .. J 
rdinal jr No. in 
umber '• Catalogue. 
1. Clayton and Shuttleworth 7171 
2. Robey and Co 7110 
3. Riches and Watts 7136 
5. Ashby and JefiVey 478 
8. Brown and May 6891 
9. Hancock and B^oden 6966 
10. Marshall, Sons, and Co 7081 
12. Reading Iron Works 4009 
13. C. D. Eagles 6793 
14. Davey, Taxman, and Davey 7100 
16. W. N. Nicholson 4314 
Section 1. Class I. For Engines of 4-horse-power with boilers combined. — 
As already stated, except the condition that the bore of the cylinder should 
not exceed 7? inches in diameter, and also, as should have been remarked, that 
during the trial the pressure of steam should not exceed 50 lbs., no limitations 
as to form or as to arrangements were placed upon the exhibitors of these 
engines. 
It resulted from this latitude that, among the following eleven exhibitors 
who came to trial, there were three engines, exhibited respectively by Messrs. 
Clayton and Shuttleworth, by Messrs. Bro^vn and May, and by the Reading 
Iron Works Company, which were in all respects of the ordinary type of the 
portable engine, with the exception that they were placed upon stands and not 
upon wheels. 
In one instance, at all events if not in more than one, this variance from 
a portable engine could be caused to disappear, for the stands were re- 
movable and the engine was supplied with arrangements for readily fixing 
the ordinary wheels and axles of a portable engine ; and, indeed, one of the 
-exhibitors brought his engine to trial mounted on its wheels and axles, 
■being in every respect a 4-horso portable engine, a class excluded from trial at 
the Oxford Show. It is hardly necessary to remark that if we had allowed 
this engine to be thus tried, there was not a single one of the 4-horse portable 
• engines in the Yard which might not have been entered for the prize. On 
the matter being laid before the Stewards, they at once decided that at the 
time the engines v?ere being tried, they must be engines upon stands and not 
portable engines upon wheels. The other exhibitors who came to trial, eight 
in number, all brought forward engines with vertical boilers, and, with one 
exception, the engines themselves were vertical ; this exception was that of 
No. 6793, exhibited by Mr. Eagles, but manufactured, as it appears from 
the Catalogue, by Messrs. Dennison and Sons, of Orchard Street Works, New- 
•castle-on-Tyne. 
