Implement Show at Bury St. Edmund's. 
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Single Cylindku Portable Engines. 
In this class wc awarded the First Prize to Messrs. Clayton, Rhnttleworth, 
and Co., who jirodnced a thoroupihly well designed and well made engine, 
whicli did its work with an extremely small constimi)tion of fuel. 
The Second Prize wc awarded to Messrs. Tuxford and Sous, whose engine 
was also extremely well made and designed, and who gave proof of an economy 
but little below that of Messrs. Clayton, Shuttleworth, and Co. 
Tiie Heading Iron Works Company's ICngine we highly commended. It 
was extremely well designed and well made. This engine was fitted with a 
means of varying the expansion, similar to that employed in the fixed engine 
by the same makers. See our remarks thereon. 
We also liighly commended the Engine of Messrs. Brown and May, because 
it gave, without any separate expansion valve, a very good economic resnlt. 
It was a very plain, serviceable engine. 
Of the Double Cylinder Portable Engines four only were tried twice. 
The First Prize was given to Messrs. Clayton, Shuttle v/orth, and Co., whose 
Engine, well designed and -well made, worked with great economy. 
The Second Prize was given to Messrs. Ransomcs and Sims, whose Engine 
•was of extreiuely good workmanship, and gave a performance in res]x'Ct of 
coal differing but by a small fraction of a pound from that given by Messrs. 
Clayton, Shuttleworth, and Co. 
The Engine of Messrs. Tuxford and Sous well deserved the high com- 
mendation we gave it, although we could not lose sight of the fact that its 
price was higher than that of its competitors. 
The Engine of Messrs. Brown and May we highly commended, because, as 
in the case of their single engine, it was of a plain, serviceable class, and yet 
gave a very good result, 
We have the honour to be, my Lords and Gentlemen, 
Your obedient servants, 
John V. Gooch, 
F. J. Bkamwell, 
Jas. Easton, 
Judges of Steam-EnffiveF, 
London, Novomher 7, 1867. 
To the Senioi' Steward of Implements at the Bury Sltow of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England. 
My Lord, — We have the honour to submit for your Lordship's consideration 
and that of the Council some recommendations as to the preparations for and 
conduct of the trials of steam engines in future years, which are prompted 
partly by the difficulties experienced this year, and the consequent delay of 
our award and also of our report; and partly by the consideration of the fact, 
that the circumstances under which the trials take place, although affording 
results which are for many purposes very valuable, do not correspond with the 
circumstances under which an engine would be worked by a purchaser. 
The Fixed Steam Engines (as you are aware) arc supplied with steam from 
a boiler belonging to the Society, but attended to by the workmen employed by 
each exhibitor. Although there is not any clause forbidding the exhibitor to 
heat the feed-water supplied to this boiler, nevertheless, there seems to have 
been an understanding among them that this should not be done ; we think 
it would be well if it were stated in the " conditions " hereafter to be pub- 
lished, that the exhibitors will be allowed to apply any feed-water heater that 
