A single page from Engineering (5 September 1873) reporting on flax, hemp and jute preparation and spinning machinery at the 1873 Vienna Exhibition. It describes flax-breaking and scutching machines from Belgian, Austrian, Hungarian, German and American exhibitors, and a Reynolds-system spinning machine shown by T. Barraclough. It also notes the exhibits of Combe, Lawson and other firms, Dutch hand tools for flax, and wood-shaving and cane or straw preparation for plaiting and weaving.