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The Sydney Stock and Station Journal

12 April 1912

The exhibit of this firm was larger and of a more varied type than they have previously made. It ranged from heavy traction engines to all classes of light machine tools.

A road-making plant for the Gadara Shire Council, Tumut, was shown on the stand, and embraced an 8-h.p. compound traction engine with new style of bunkers. "Gibson, Battle" road waggons for shire use, "Goodwin Barsby" stone breaker, fitted with a "Gibson, Battle" elevator for lifting the road metal from the crusher to the trucks driven by an 8-h.p. Ruston portable engine, "Ruston Proctor" portable steam engines, from 2½ to 10-h.p. "Columbus" portable oil engines, one of which drove the whole of their wood working and engineering display, "McLaren," 5 h.p. tractor; this type of engine won the 1910 competition for ploughing at the Royal Agricultural Show in, Britan, a "Weeks " Road scarifier is on the stand, also a very interesting elevator made by the Portable Elector Co. of U.S.A., for stacking heavy goods on the floors of warehouses, weights up to 10cwt. being dealt with in remarkably quick time.

A large number of machines was to be seen in actual operation and the wood-working department showed the cihain and hollow chisel morticing machines which have revolutionised this class of work in the Commonwealth. Three different types of these machines were at work, also the 'Judson-Jackson' patent sand belt for cabinet makers, joiners, and pattern makers' shops is a very interesting and labor saving appliance. A panel planing machine. Felloo dressing machine, grinding machine, universal wheelwrights' tool that will do all classes of work, from the turning of a hub to finishing the completed wheel, saw benches, suitable for the joiner or the saw miller, and many other interesting tools were displayed in this department. All these wood-working machines are manufactured by W. B. Haigh, Gruban and Co., of Oldham, England.

They had also in operation a 'Herbert' No. 4 Capstan Lathe with friction gear and automatic head; this machine was to be seen turning out most beautiful work at a wonderful; speed. A 'Butler 16' Shaping Machine. 6in. x 3½in. centre lathe, hacksaws, and two-spindle ball-bearing; machines were among the interesting exhibits shown in their tool department.

Weighing machines by Pooley were shown on the stand; a very interesting exhibit in this department being a weighbridge suitable for butchers and produce merchants requiring to get accurate weights without loss of time.

Owing to a late delivery the firm were unable to show a specially designed ploughing plant, but arrangements have been made whereby an actual trial will be given at the Wagga Experimental Farm about the end of April or beginning of May.