TEXT - PERIOD E. 1860-1870.

Pp E1-80. Contents: Personalia; Main Features of the Period; General Sketch of Orwell Works; J E Ransomes Book on Ploughs and Ploughing; General Publicity; Portable Steam Engine Changes; London International Exhibition 1862; Westerfield Fete 1862; Paris Exhibition 1867; RASE Newcastle Plough Trials 1864; Rio Exhibition 1866; Santiago Exhibition 1869; Visit of Japanese Commissioners to Ipswich; Ransomes and Rapier; Thrashing Machine Fittings; Biddell and Balk Patent Boiler; Lawn Mowers and Motor Lawn Mowers - their evolution and manufacture; Exhibition of Machinery in Motion 1861; The Patent Concrete Stone Company Haymakers; Reapers and Mowers; YFR Plough; Discount Terms; Montague Beale; W Hume; Attendance of RS at RASE Meetings; J Barker; In 3 parts: Part 1 - E1-34b (excl. 29a), Part 2 - E34c-80, Part 3 - E29a.

Documents are inserted at the following points:

E16 1867(Jan)

CATALOGUE COVER PN 500

E23A 1862(23 Aug)

PRESS CUTTING containing an article on the 1862 London International Exhibition with engravings of RS display stand and Biddell and Balk's Boiler. "The Illustrated London News" Pp 217-218.

E29A 1867

STATEMENT by RS regarding their claims to compete for £400 price offered to the exhibitor who could provide best evidence by items exhibited of having rendered pre-eminent service to agriculture. In French. Pp 4. Thereafter there is a folding photographic sheet of items exhibited.

E34A and B 1867

MEMORANDUM [Copy] from R C Ransome to the Imperial Commission concerning the English government's refusal to appoint 3 English members on the Jury to adjudicate the Special Welfare Prize at the Paris Exhibition for which RS had entered. In pencil.

E34C 1867(14 Jun)

LETTER to R C Ransome from Greening & Co Ltd, Manchester, fellow entrants for the Special Welfare Prize above.

E34D 1867(10 Jun)

LETTER to Bryant & May from the secretary to Lord Derby concerning the above.

E37 1867(8 Jun)

LETTER to the Stone House Company from RS concerning the Special Welfare Prize at the Paris Exhibition [cf E34]

E38 1867(12 Jun)

LETTER to their fellow competitors from RS giving their various reasons for not proceeding over the above prize dispute.

E50A 1869(25 Sep)

PRESS CUTTING containing an article on horse-treading and steam-thrashing corn with engravings. "The Illustrated London News". Pp 295-6.

E55B 1860(19 Aug)

NOTICE for Green's Patent Silens Messor Lawn Mower. Agents RS Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds Warehouses. [Photocopy]

E60A 1914

EXTRACT from PN 6515. Pp 41-42 - Buddings Lawn Mower, 1832.