88 Miscellaneous Implements Exhibited at Park Royal. 
Articles 3566 and 3567. — Messrs. JRuston , Proctor Co ., 
Ltd., Sheaf Iron Works, Lincoln. Article 3566, “ A Self-feeder, 
Band Cutter and Conveyor, attached to a Threshing. Machine” ; 
arid Article 3567, “A Safety Appliance in connection with the 
Self-feeder and Band Cutter.” — The band cutter is liable to 
damage the straw and so render it unfitted for trussing ; but 
the safety appliance is a distinct advance. 
Article 3656. — Messrs. H. P. Saunderson & Co., Ltd., Elstow 
Works, Bedford. “ Motor ‘Universal,’ 25 B.H.P.” Price 300/. 
— This motor was complete on two compensated front wheels, 
both steering arid propelling, and was fitted with a three-speed 
gear. It may be attached to a motor digger, to binders, mowers, 
ploughs, wagons, or to any farm implement ; to its special two- 
wheeled motor plough, when all four travelling wheels propel ; 
or to its “ body,” making a 4-ton lorry. It may also be used 
for threshing, hauling, and general work. 
We gave a trial to this machine by ploughing a piece of 
land situated just outside the Showyard. The plough was so 
attached to the rear of the tractor that the operator was able to 
raise it out of work while turning on the headland, thus saving 
the time wasted by tractors which tow the plough. The tractor 
in question, being a four-wheeled one, made its turn by what 
is known at sea by the term “ filling and backing,” a simple 
and quick process in the modern gear-driven tractor. By an 
ingenious arrangement of universal joints the operator was able 
to apply power to the steering wheels, and he demonstrated 
to us the advantage of the extra grip he was able to get of 
the ground for propelling purposes. When the chain to the 
auxiliary driving wheel broke, owing to faulty construction, 
the tractor was helpless. On another occasion it was demon- 
strated to us that the tractor was unable to surmount an 
obstacle, consisting of a heavy railway sleeper, when the power 
was applied to the two rear wheels only ; but the instant that 
the same power was distributed amongst all four wheels by 
throwing the leading wheels into gear, the tractor climbed 
easily over the obstruction from a standing start, with the 
leading wheels touching the sleeper. 
Miscellaneous Implements. 
The Judges, as usual, visited each stand in the implement 
yard, and put the time-honoured question, “ Do you wish 
to call the attention of the Judges to anything new this 
year?” In the majority of cases we received the cheering reply 
that trade was brisk and that the manufacturers had no time 
for experiments. I mention, however, one or two implements 
that seemed to us to be of rather more than ordinary interest. 
