TEXT - PERIOD F. 1870-1880.

Pp F1-83a. Contents: Personalia; Main Features of the Period; Bank Holiday 1871(7 Aug); Firm in 1878; Reconstruction; Opening of Lawn Mower Works 1876; Change of Working Hourse; Export Trade; Catalogues; Head and Schemioth Patent Straw Burning Apparatus; Jeffries Patent Plough Lifting Apparatus; Road Steamer; Double Shaker Steam Thrashing Machinery; Electric Lighting; Vienna Exhibition 1873; Paris Exhibition 1878; Rotary v Reciprocating Shakers; Branches including France and Spain [The section on France has yearly export statistics for 1858-1927]; J E Ransome's book on double-furrow Ploughs; Head's book on Rise and Progress of Steam Locomotion on Common Roads and his paper on Combustion of Refuse Vegetable Substances; Visit of Chinese ambassadors to the Orwell Works; Rignall Family; William Worby; A T Cole; E J Davies; Julius Harvey; James Drew Gauge; Spencer Leigh Hughes; Penrose Garliffe; F A Fawkes; Hadgraft Snr and Mayhew. [F23 was not used]. In 2 parts. Part 1 - F1-41; Part 2 - F42-83a.

Documents are inserted at the following point:

F8 1871(7 Aug)

INVITATION TICKET from RSH for a Bank Holiday excursion to Harwich by steamer.

F9A 1878(1 Jul)

PRESS CUTTING concerning RSH with engravings of R C Ransome, J E Ransome, J Head and J R Jefferies "The British Trade Journal" Pp 347-350.

F15 1871(4 Nov)

NOTICE to the workmen at the Orwell Works concerning the reduction of weekly hours from 58½ to 54 hours commencing 1872(1 Jan)

F20 1882(Jan)

CATALOGUE COVER from PN 1550E

F24/5 [early 1880's]

TWO ILLUSTRATIONS of Head and Schemioth's Patent Portable Steam Engine.

F32 1914

EXTRACT from PN 6515. Pp 45-46 - Road Steamer "Chenab" with passenger car.

F38A 1914

EXTRACT from PN 6515. Pp 27-28 - Thrashing Scene in South Russia.

F56A [1870's]

ENGRAVING of Eagle 75 Plough.

F56B [1870's]

PHOTOGRAPH of CT1 Plough (Turnwrest variety of Eagle 75)

F73 1856

PHOTOGRAPH of the first Steam Plough made for J Fowler by RS and constructed by William Worby [Photocopy of PhN 6243 with caption]