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Mapplebeck and Lowe at RASE Northampton Meeting

An extract concerning the Northampton meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society. Mapplebeck & Lowe listed as selling Budding lawnmowers. 

  • THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.

    JULY, 1847.

    No. 1.-VOL. XVI.] [SECOND SERIES

    ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 

    NORTHAMPTON MEETING.

    MAPPLEBECK and Lowe, of Birmingham, Warwick. A Fairbank's patent 10 cwt. weighing machine, a 5 cwt. weighing machine, and a 4 cwt, weighing machine, improved and manufactured by W. and T. Avery, of Birmingham; a 4 cwt. weighing machine, invented, improved, and manufactured by W. and T. Avery; a 4 cwt, weighing machine and a 3 cwt. weighing machine, improved and manufactured by W. and T. Avery; (new implement) a weighing machine, invented and manufactured by W. and T. Avery; a cwt. weighing machine and a 3 cwt. weighing machine, improved and manufactured by W. and T. Avery; a steelyard, with frame for weighing sacks, &c., manufactured by W. and T. Avery; a set of new pattern iron bar weights, manufactured by Mapplebeck and Lowe, of Birming- ham; a portable kibbling mill on a cast iron frame, a portable kibbling mill on a wood frame, a portable bean splitting mill on a cast iron frame, a portable bean mill on a wood frame, a malt mill with wheel and iron hopper, a kibbling mill with wheel and iron hopper, a bean splitting mill with wheel and iron hopper, a bean splitting mill to work by power, and a kibbling mill to work by power, improved and manufactured by W. H. Reynolds, of Birmingham; a hand power mill, for oats, malt, &c., and a hand power mill for crushing linseed, improved and manufactured by Ransomes and May, of Ipswich (obtained a prize of £5 at Newcastle, in 1846); an iron field roller, a one-horse power, and an improved cheese press, improved and manufactured by the Coalbrook-dale Company; an iron wheel- barrow, manufactured by the Coalbrook-dale Company; an iron sack-barrow, improved and manufactured by the Coalbrook-dale Company; an iron cattle trough, manufactured by the Coalbrook-dale Company; an iron pig trough, manufactured by Hardy and Co., of Wester; a circular pig trough, with eight divisions, manufactured by Smith and Co., of Leamington; an iron bucket, manufactured by the exhibiters; a garden roller, manufactured by the Coalbrook-dale Company; a cast iron corner manger, a cast iron centre master, a cast iron corner hay sack, and a cost iron centre rack, manufactured by the exhibiters; an iron rick pillar and a cast iron pump for a liquid manure tank, manufactured by the Coalbrook-dale Company; a harness-room stove, invented and manufactured by the Coalbrook-dale Company; an improved corn-dressing machine, invented, improved, and manufactured by Richard Hornsby, of Spittlegate; (new implement) an improved corn-dressing machine, improved and manufactured by E. and T. Humphries, of Pershore; a corn-dressing machine, manufactured by the exhibiters; a cake crusher, invented, improved, and manufactured by Richard Hornsby, of Spittlegate; a potent turnip cutter, invented and manufactured by James Gardener, of Banbury (a premium of 25 was awarded for this machine at the Southampton Meeting, 1844); a turnip cutter, manufactured by Wilks, of Sheffield; a chat cutting machine. with three knives, invented, improved, and manufactured by John Corns, of Barbridge (this machine gained a prize of £10 at Shrewsbury, 1845, and at Newcastle, 1846); a chaff cutting machine, with two knives, Invented and manufactured by John Cornes: a chaff cutting machine, with two knives, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters: a chaff cutting machine, with two knives, manufactured by Wilks, of Sheffield; a turnip and manure drill and a patching turnip drill, invented and manufactured by White and Co., of Worksop; a patent plough, invented and manufactured by Ransomes and May, of Ipswich (this plough had a prize of £10 and silver medal as the best heavy-land plough, and also £10 and silver medal as the best light-land plough, awarded at the Southampton Meeting); a Ransome's Rutland Plough, invented by R. W. Baker, of Cottesmore, and manufactured by Ransomes and May; a Clarke's universal ridge plough, invented by John Clarke, of Long Sutton, and improved and manufactured by Ransomes and May; a set of patent iron- trussed whippletrees, invented and manufactured by Ransomes and May, of Ipswich; (new implement, a patent wrought iron hand hoë, invented and manufactured by the Coalbrook-dale Company; (new implements) a set of W. A. Lyndon's patent draining tools, invented by Mr. Josiah Parkes, Draining Engineer, London, and manufactured by W. A. Lyndon, of Birmingham; (new implements) a set of W. A. Lyndon's patent draining tools, invented and manufactured by W. A. Lyndon; a strong digging fork, a potato fork, and an improved cast steel hay fork, manufactured by W. A. Lyndon; an iron hurdle, manufactured by the exhibiters; one yard of hare or rabbit fence, 2 feet high, manufactured by the exhibiters; a set of Bencraft's patent hames, in- vented by Bencraft, and manufactured by the exhibiters; set of hames, manufactured by the exhibiters; a four-bushel sack, manufactured by Ironmonger, of Wolverhampton a Budding's patent mowing machine, for cutting lawns, grass plots, &c., invented by E. Budding, of Dursley, and manufactured by Ferrabee, of Stroud; (new implement) a garden engine, improved and manufactured by the exhibiters; a patent iron bedstead, invented, improved, and manufactured by R. W. Winfield, of Birmingham; an improved sheep folding net, manufactured by Robb, of Birmingham; an oil-cloth waggon cover and an oil-cloth cart cover, manufactured by Ironmonger, of Wolverhampton; a screw waggon jack, a pair of cart springs, a pair of 21 inch iron arms, and a black staple vice, manufactured by the exhibiters; a hand or drag rake, manufactured by Harris, of Baddesley; a model of rick cloth, manufactured by Ironmonger, of Wolverhampton; a garden syringe, improved and manufactured by Chadburne: a chondrometer, manufactured by W. and T. Avery, of Birmingham; a stand of models.

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    BHL/Farmers Magazine/1847/P177