THE ROYAL SHOW AT CAMBRIDGE.
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A Complete Report of the Exhibits of Steam and Internal-combustion-engined Vehicles, Tractors, Traction Engines and Agrimotors.
THE University town having been selected as the site of the 81st annual show organized by the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Cambridge has made a very great effort to do justice to the occasion. The show ground is about a mile from the town on the Trumping-ton road and is excellent for its purpose. The entries exceed those of any year since the temporary abandonment of the show caused by hostilities. In the years 1915 and 1916 the shows at Nottingham and Manchester suffered from prevailing conditions, and in 1917 and 1918 circumstances were considered/ altogether too unpropitious for exhibitions of the kind. The entry list totals to 494, which materially exceeds that for any of the post-war years, the total number of individual exhibits being more than 300 in excess of last year's figures.
There are a number of new productions amongst the steam-driven exhibits and these lend more than the usual amount of interest to this particular section of the show. Most of the petrol-consuming vehicles and the agrimotors are already well known, presenting no new features, The agnmotors, again, do not figure so strongly as they have done in previous
years, one or two prominent machines being noticeably absent. But the section is interesting, a 'tendency to develop the lightweight being observable.
Of vehicles using petrol as fuel there are conspicuously few, owing to a decision of the manufacturers to eschew practically all shows this year. Of implements for use with the agrimotor for cultivating, harvesting, etc., there are more than ever on view and it is particularly interesting to observe the development of the small threshing machine that can be driven by this form of power instead of by the steam traction engine. The small threshing machine, cheap in first cost, comes well within the reach of the farmer who does not farm on too small a scale and it offers many advantage:a to him, as the owner, over hiring. Of very great interest amongst equipment and accessories is the new Dunlop pneumatic tyre, suitable for use on the wheels of agnmotors. The Royal Show is open each day from to-day (Tuesday) until Saturday next, both days inclusive, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and there is every prospect of a record gate. All the arrangements are well up to " Royal" standard.