1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class IX.: Burgess and Key
2086. BURGESS and KEY, London.
Reaping, mowing, and thrashing machines, haymakers, horse rakes, carts, waggons, chaff-cutters, churns.
Obtained the Council Medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
First prize consisting of 1,000 francs, a gold medal, and a great gold medal of honour, at Fouilleuse, near Paris, both in 1859 and 1860.
First prize at Goes, in Holland, in competition with Cuthbert's and Wood's.
First prize of the Highland Society, at Edinburgh.
First prize of the Yorkshire Society, at Hull.
First prize of the Lincolnshire Society, at Great Grimsby.
First prize of the North Northumberland Society.
First prize of the Hexham Society, at Haydon Bridge.
First prize of the Kent Society, at Ashford.
First prize of the Lancashire Society, at Southport.
Great gold medal of honour at Schwerin, and numerous other prizes and medals.
Royal Agricultural Society of England's first prize of £30, 1855. Ditto, £15 prize at Chelmsford, 1856.
First prize at Louth.
First prize at Hexham.
First prize of Highland Society's medal, at Lord Kinnaird's, Rossie Priory, North Britain.
Royal Agricultural Society's first prize, at Salisbury.
Australian medal of the Geelong Agricultural Society.
Austrian medal, at Vienna.
First-class diploma, at Pesth, Hungary.
First-class diploma, at Grossetto, Tuscany.
North Lancashire Agricultural Society, first prize and gold medal.
First-class diploma of the Central Society of Belgium, open to all nations.
BURGESS and KEY'S PRIZE REAPING MACHINE was introduced at the great Exhibition of 1851. Since that time it has been made entirely self-acting, and will now both cut and deliver the corn. In its improved form it has won the highest prizes and testimonials in all parts of the world.
The great advantage and superiority of Burgess and Key's screw-delivery reaper is fully attested by the enormous demand and use. They are in use on the royal farms in the United Kingdom, and on the Continent on the farms of the Emperor of the French, the Emperor of Russia, the Queen of Spain, the Grand Duchess Helena of Russia, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Baron Ricasoli, Count Orloff Davidoff; and upwards of 3,000 are in use in the United Kingdom by the nobility and leading agriculturists.
Price £42-10
BURGESS and KEY'S NEW PATENT MOWING MACHINE, adapted to cut all kinds of grasses, any required height; both wheels are geared and so placed that they do not travel on the cut grass; the driver can raise the knife so as to avoid obstruction, and the finger beam and knife are hinged so as to turn up when travelling along roads. It will cut about 1 acre of grass per hour.
This new machine is the result of 13 years' experience in the manufacture and use of reaping and mowing machines. During this time numerous prizes have been received by Burgess and Key for mowers, including the first prize of the Royal Agricultural Society of England at Canterbury and Warwick. They have also received the first prize of £40 on 2 occasions in Holland, in competition with machines from all parts of the world. Numerous other prizes have also been received in various parts of the United Kingdom. It is a most simple and durable machine, and can be fully relied upon in the harvest field, as the greatest care is taken in its manufacture to ensure its working well. Price £25 as a mower.
The following are also exhibited:
Horse rakes of superior construction.
Anthony's patent American churn, of which upwards of 10,000 have been sold.
Chaff-cutters of the very best description.
Turnip cutters; pumps and fire engines.
Lawn mowers; thrashing machines.
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