THE 83rd ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW.
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The Wonderful Collection of Exhibits Staged This Year Includes Many Shown for the First Time. There are Steam, Petrol and Electric Vehicles, Tractors, Agrimotors, Ploughing Engines, Rollers, Motor Mowers, Fire Appliances, Electric Trucks, Lighting Sets and Numerous Accessories.
THIS year's Royal Agricultural Show, the gates . 'of which are opened to the public to-day . (Tuesday), may he considered as one of the most important of the 83 shows so far staged. (the first show having been held in 1839, and the three years in which none was held being 1867, 1917 and 1918), for it will probably see the advent of many colonial and foreign visitors who haVe arrived in the country for the purpose of viewing the British . Empire Exhibition. Many of these visitors have a large interest in everything pertaining to agriculture, and this will prove ' an excellent opportunity for our makers of agrimotors, haulage plant, rollers, implements, etc., to press the claims of their many excellent products. Not only this, but the unfortunate fiasco of the Three Counties Show (due to the floods) has caused even more attention to be paid to ihis really excellent display at Leicester.
Few former agricultural shows can claim to have brought together so many new implements as are here being exhibited for the first time, and these are well-thought-out designs—not the sporadic efforts which were so noticeable a few years ago.
Notable advances have been made in steam and petrol transport vehicles and tractors, but progress has riot been restricted to this sphere of activity alone, for there are new rollers for road and land, ploughing engines, mowers--large and small—and a variety of other implements which are all described in the following report—which has been obtained by a stand-to-stand inspection of the exhibits.
The site of the show can be ieached by a circular
tram route from the centre of the to-1,m, and it is hoped that several Tilling-Stevens buses will also be running. Fares for motor vehicles have been fixed by the authorities ; that by taxicab is 4s. 2d. Admission costs 10s. to-day, 5s. to-morrow, 33. on Thursday and Friday, and 2s. on the last day— Saturday ; the opening hours being from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
For the convenience of our readers we have arranged this report in the numerical order of the stands, and include a table by which the stand number of any exhibitor can be seen at a glance. In some cases the same maker may be represented on several stands, in which event the numbers of such stands are given.