Two pages from The Textile Mercury's 'Machinery and Appliances' column describing new textile preparation machinery. The main items are an improved weft winding machine by Robert Hall and Sons of Bury, with an automatic stopping motion and friction-disc drive for uniform winding speed, and a quick traverse drum winding frame by Guest and Brooks of Manchester, with a simplified drop-wire stop motion and cam-driven traverse. Short notes on a new flyer frame department at Taylor, Lang and Co. and on works extensions at Henry Livesey, loom makers of Blackburn, are also included. Two engravings or drawings illustrate the winding machines.