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1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class IX.: Picksley and Sims

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Reaping Machine for Cutting Grain and Agricultural Grasses (Price £25)
Chaff Cutter (No 1A, price £4)

2164. PICKSLEY, SIMS, and CO., Leigh, near Manchester.

Agricultural implements

REAPING MACHINE FOR CUTTING GRAIN AND ARTIFICIAL GRASSES. (Price £25.)

This machine obtained the

  • First prize at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Leeds, 1861.
  • First prize at the East Lothian Agricultural Society's Show at Haddington, 1861.
  • First prize at the North Lonsdale Agricultural Society's show at Ulverstone, 1861.
  • First prize at the Leyland Agricultural Society's Show at Leyland, 1861.
  • The first prize was also awarded to P. S. and Co. at Leyland, for their combined reaping and mowing machine (Bamlett's patent), price £35, in competition with Woods'.

Since taking the above prizes, however, P. S. and Co. have incorporated several important improvements suggested by the experience of last season, and they can now warrant the machine as the champion reaping machine for manual delivery.

Priced catalogues may be obtained post-free on application at the Works, as above.

P. S. and Co. have in 1861 with their celebrated machines taken upwards of 50 first-class prizes at the Royal and other principal agricultural shows in England, France, and Australia.

  • Chaff cutters from £2-5 to £25-0
  • Oat and beau mills from £3-10 to £15-0
  • Grinding mills from £8-10 to £15-0
  • Turnip cutters from £3-0 to £6-10
  • Turnip pulpers from £3-10 to £8-10
  • Lawn-mowing machines from £5-0 to £7-10

P. S. and Co. are the sole and exclusive makers of Bamlett's patent reaping machine.

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