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The prizes given by the Corporation for milk churns were scheduled in the
catalogue as under :-
" Inventions."
" Class 94. Railway milk churns, dust proof, suitable for the con"
veyance of milk, capable of containing from 12 to 17 Imperial gallons.
" First prize 10/. 10s. ; Second prize 5l. 5s. Offered by the
" Lord Mayor and Corporation of London."
There were eleven exhibitors in this class who entered eighteen milk churns
for competition.
The following is a copy of the award of the Judges :-
RAILWAY MILK CHURNS.
None of the churns competing for the prizes offered by the Lord
Mayor and Corporation of London showed any special new features of
real practical importance, although most of the churns were of excellent
workmanship and finish, and therefore the first and second prizes were
divided between the best two.
It is a somewhat difficult matter to turn out a really first class railway
milk churn to suit the general conditions of the milk trade, but the
judges are of opinion that the resources of mechanical genius are not yet
exhausted in this direction.
We are of opinion that the best pattern railway milk churn is one
which has a dust proof lid without any openings.
The so-called "ventilation" holes in the lids of some churns are
useless for the purpose of aeration, while they allow the entrance of dirt
of all kinds in transit.
If milk is quite clean and properly cooled it will keep longer and
better in vessels with closely fitted lids, and certainly none but clean
and well cooled milk should be sent out.
Signed GEORGE BRIGGS, C.C.
P. McCONNELL, B.Sc.
M. EWING,
The prizes were divided between the undermentioned firms :-
" Exhibit No. 1,729. Vipam and Headly, Leicester. Railway milk
" churn, 17 gallons. Price 1l. 10s.
" Exhibit No. 1733. Abbott, Field and Co., Ltd., No. 106, York
" Road, Lambeth, S.E. Railway churn, 17 gallons. Price 1l. 7s,