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1853-08-01 RASE Meeting Gloucester - Ransomes & Sims

THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.  AUGUST, 1853.   MEETING AT   GLOUCESTER.

CATALOGUE OF IMPLEMENTS, &c., EXHIBITED AT THE SHOW.

RANSOME and SIMS, of Ipswich, Suffolk.

Several specimens of Ransome's patent iron plough, with two wheels, invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters (awarded the prize of £7 at the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at Lewes, 1852, as the best plough for general purposes; also awarded the prize of £10, and silver medal, as the best light land plough, and also the prize of £10 and silver medal as the best heavy lacd plough, at the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting at Southampton; also a prize of £10 at the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting at Northampton; and the Council medal of the Great Exhibition, with this plough, as made by Busby); (new implement) a Ransome's patent Y.R.C. iron plough, fitted with cleaning apparatus; a Ransome's iron plough, with two wheels, invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters; four specimens of Ransome's patent trussed-beam iron universal plough, marked Y.U.L., invented by J. Clarke, of Long Sutton, and improved and manufactured by the exhibiters (obtained the silver medal at the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at Norwich, 1849); a Lowcock's patent iron one-way plough, with two wheels, and skim coulter, invented by H. Lowcock, of Westerland, and improved and manufactured by the exhibiters (obtained the prize of £5 at the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting at Southampton, a prize of £5 at Shrewsbury, a prize of £5 at Exeter, and a prize of £7, as the best tarmwrest plough, at Lewes); a set of Ransome's patent trassed iron whippletrees, invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters (obtained the Royal Agricultural Society's silver medal at Southampton, and commended at the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting at Lewes); a Biddell's patent wrought-iron scarifier, grubber, or cultivatior, invented by A. Biddell, of Playford, and improved and manufactured by the exhibiters (this implement obtained the prize of £10 at the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting at Liverpool; also at Northampton, in 1846; at York, in 1848; at Norwich, in 1849; and at Lewes, in 1852); a registered Tennant's grubber, invented by J. Tennant, of Monkton, and improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; (new implement) two of Ransome's six-horse portable steam engines; a Ransome's four-horse portable steam engine; a Ransome's eight-horse stationary horisontal engine; a Ransome's five-horse stationary engine; a Ransome's four-horse portable thrashing machine; a Ransome's two-horse portable thrashing machine; a Ransome's portable bolting thrashing machine, on four-wheel carriage, with straw-shaker, collecting brushes, and riddle; a Ransone's improved portable or fixed six-horse bolting thrashing machine, with straw-shaker, riddle, blower, barley-awner, and elevator; a Ransome's dressing machine (large size); ditto, another size; a Ransome's barley awner, and a Ransome's chaff cutter (No. 14), invented and manufactured by the exhabiters; (new implement) Ransome's new horse power chaff engine, and ditto (No. 2), invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a Gardner's turnip cutter for sheep, with grated hopper, and a Gardner's double action turnip cutter for sheep and beasts, invented by the late J. Gardner, of Banbury, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; two sizes of Hurwood's patent twelve-inch metal mill (B), invented by George Hurwood, of Ipswich, and manufactured by the exhibiters (awarded the prize medal of the Great Exhibition, and the prize of £10 at the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting at Lewes; a Ransome's patent double mill (No. 8) for horse power (awarded the silver medal of the Royal Agricultural Society, at Lewes); a Ransome's patent double crushing mill, and a Ransome's patent double mill (No. 7), invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters; (new implement) a Ransome's new bean cutter, for hard or soft beans; (new implement) a Ransome's new universal mill, and (new implement) a Ransome's new bruising mill, invented and manufactured by the exhibiters; a Ransome's oilcake breaker (No. 8), ditto (No. 1), and a Ransome's iron universal intermediate mation, invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters; (new implements) two specimens of Atkins' patent automaton or self-raking reapers, invented by Jearum Atkins, of Chicago, U. S., improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; (new implement) a modification of the implement known as

Hussey's reaper," invented by Hussey, and improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; a Ransome's portable corn mill; a Ransome's improved one horse Scotch cart, complete, with harvest raves; a Ransome's improved Cumberland cart, with harvest raves, and a Ransome's one horse Windsor cart, invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters; two sets of five circular-bottom pig troughs, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; a circular pig trough, 2ft. diameter, with six partitions; ditio, 2ft. 9in. diameter, with eleven partitions, manufactured by the exhibiters: a nineteen-inch Budding's grass cutting machine, invented by Budding of Dursley, and manufactured by the exhibiters; a Ransome's circular-saw bench, invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters; a model of Atkins' automaton self-raking reaper, and a model of Springali's corn-stack stand, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; a Ransome's suspension harrow; a Ransome's No. 6 quarto copying press; a Ransome's patent iron plough with noe wheel (marked Y.N.W.); a Ransome's patent iron double tom or moulding plough (marked W.L.C.W.), a Ransome's patent iron one-wheel plough (marked Y.I.W.); a Ransome's patent iron plough with one wheel (marked Y.C.P.); a Ransome's patent iron plough with one wheel (marked YO.H): a Ransome's patent iron plough with one wheel (marked Y.F.S.), and a Ransome's patent iron plough called the Y hoe plough, invented, improved, aud manufactured by the exhibiters; a patent iron Rackheath or subsoil plough, invented by Sir Edward Stracy, of Rackheath, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; a patent iron plough, called the West Indian Y.W. trenching plough; an Indian horse hoe; a Ransome's patent Indian cultivator; an expanding horse hoe, and an Indian scuffler, invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters; a Crosskill's patent clod crusher, 6it. wide, invented by W. Crosskill, of Beverley, and manufactured by the exhibiters; a Ransome's patent cane top cutter; a Ransome's Sydney cart, and an iron chaff engine (No. 13), invented, improved, and manufactured by the exhibiters.

Publication
Farmers Almanac
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BHL/Farmers Magazine/1853/Vol2/P160