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BT.TKA TINSLEY.
This firm has a good display of Hercules
oil engine?, pumps, Champion blowers and i
forges, lathes, drills, lyre-benders nud wel
tiei-s, band-saws, iS&rrow-dises, steel split
pulleys, and other requisites for farmers,
coachbuilders, implement - makers, aud
blacksmiths. . Outside the pavilion, three
oil engines are at work; one running a cliaff
euyfer,ianoTOer {pfG h .p.). driving a pump
raising I®,#!® lesions of water per hour;
and the third (a 3h.p. marine engine), is seen
turning a boat's propeller immersed in a
glass t4bk: Jhis last is quite a novelty,
so far as, the«how is concerned, These
Hercules ehgines" belong lo the electric ig
nition type, with wiiioli users of motor
cars are so familiar. The fuel oil consumed
is benzine. They are said to be very cheap
enginesyto-run; easy to start, and seldom
require cleaning. Almost more popular
than the oil-engines are the Champion
blowers and forges. By an adaptation of
the spiral jsear movement, the blower fan
can itt^turmd by hand at the rate of many
hundred times a minute. The principle is
much the.saxne as .if the rim of the back
wheel sof =a .bicycle were fitted with teeth
geared on -to a spiral shaft. It can lie
understood at once that by even slowly
iuruingthe-pedal crank, the shaft must
revolve at an enormous rate. Though only
placedonthe world's markets in January ,
1800, the Champion company are .now
tanning out ^SO^BOO o{ them per annum, to
keep -pace -wiftrthcOexnand. Mention should
ajso be made -of the patent wrought steel
split -pulley?, rsrtiich are extremely light,
andean be fitted to Any shaft without tak
ing the same ^own. In the leather de
partment argood-show is again muda with
some fine swnples of the well-known
L.B.M. (in diamond) patent enataiel and
trimming bides,.such as are supplied to the
Victorian Bail way .department.
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