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classes of exhibits, and they addressed a recommendation to the 
Stewards of Implements to the effect that they were unable to 
consider an award to petroleum engines and hay kickers without 
a trial, which it would be impossible to conduct without pre- 
liminary preparations, and they therefore suggested that the 
question of competitive trials of these two classes should be 
considered. 
I. Awards of Silver Medals. 
Three Silver Medals were awarded to the following : — 
cSaio^ue Exhibitor. Nature of Implement. 
3102 George Cotton & Co. Willaston, Hand riddles (patent) for potatoes, 
near Crewe .... &c. 
4015 T. C. Fawcett, Hunslet, Leeds , Fawcett’s patent brick and tile 
making or pressing machine 
combined. 
6191 J. A. Partridge, Tenbury , , Stringer (patent), for use in con- 
junction with Partridge’s patent 
continuous string system for bop 
yards. 
Article 3102. Messrs. Geo. Cotton & Co., Willaston, Crewe. 
Hand Riddles. — The improvement in these consists in making 
the wire bottoms of the riddle separate from the riddle : they are 
thus movable and interchangeable. By this arrangement one 
wooden rim will serve for a number of wire bottoms, which can 
be made of various-sized meshes, and changed as required, 
according to the work to be done. The wire bottoms are woven 
of various meshes upon a circular rim of wire, and fit inside the 
wooden rim, and are held firmly in position by the spring of the 
wire rim. They rest upon four or six wires drawn across the 
bottom of the riddle at right angles, and thus the wooden rim 
is not weakened so much as by having holes bored in it for each 
wire separately, and it is not so liable to split. The riddles are 
more easily stored, as one rim will answer for a number of wire 
bottoms, and several can be put into it when not required. 
Iron handles are provided at the sides, which are an advantage. 
The labour in production is much less, and the cost is therefore 
reduced. 
Article 4015. Mr. T. C. Faivcett, Hunslet, Leeds. Brick 
and Tile Making or Pressing Machine combined (Fawcett’s 
patent). — This is a convertible brick and tile making, or brick 
and tile pressing, machine (fig. 1), driven by steam power. 
The pressure is effected by the patent toggle levers, which give 
two distinct slow pressures; the first, or inward pressure, 
when the toggles are not quite perpendicular; the second, or 
