SHREWSBURY'S SHOW.
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A Report Compiled after Examination of those Implement Exhibits, at the Current Royal Show, which are of Interest to the Readers of this Journal.
This Year There are Fewer Petrol Vehicles and Large Oil-engined Agrimotors.
The 75th annual exhibition of the 'Royal Agricultural Society of England is being held at Shrewsbury at the present time, and, as is our custom with these annual displays, we have now the pleasure of placing before our readers a considered review of those exhibits which we have reason to believe have special interest, for the commeecial-vehicte industry and those who are associated with it in any way. It cannot be denied that the Implement Section this year does not include quite so large a number of representatives of the commercial-vehicle branch of the industry as has been the ease on several previous occasions. The following statistics with regard to the actual machines which are staged may prove interesting for purposes of comparison with similar figures which were ascertained at Brietol, Doncaster, and other places. At Shrewsbury there are staged: 11 steam tractors ; 16 steam wagons ; 6 petrol lorries and vans ; 2 motor fire-engines ; S agricultural oil-driven tractors ; 9 motor ploughs and cultivators ; and. 6 motor rollers. Obviously, therefore, the steam-driven tractor and wagon are much in the ascendancy at this Show, and there is a specially-fine display of the latter. The large agricultural motor, which, naturally, has not yet found much field for employment in this country, is not shown, unless, perhaps,. we except the Germanbuilt Stock motor plough. Considerable interest is still being taken by constructors in regard to the production of an efficient small motor plough, and this is a development with which we deal at consider able length on pages 428-130 and 432 of this issue.
The opening days of the Show were favoured with superb weather conditions.