In 1859 the same firm constructed two land steam fire-engines, which they offered to the London Fire Brigade for hire or purchase, and in the following year (1860) the Fire Brigade took one on hire for one year. This experiment proved so successful, that in 1861 the committee purchased, from Shand and Mason, the fourth steam engine of their construction. This, with one of the two made in 1859, were the only land steam engines that were at work at the Great Tooley Street Fire of 1861. In the beginning of 1862, Mr. Lee, of the firm of Lee and Larned, of New York, brought over a land steam fire-engine to be placed in the International Exhibition. This was worked in public at Hodges' Distillery on the 24th of March previous to the opening of the Exhibition. Shand and Mason supplied the London Fire Brigade in April, 1862, with the eighth land steam fire-engine of their construction. Messrs. Merryweather and Sons, of London, placed their first land steam fire-engine in the International Exhibition of 1862, but this, like the ninth by Shand and Mason, was not in time for the opening, and consequently could not compete for a prize medal, which was awarded to Lee and Larned, of New York. A public trial, however, took place before the jury of the Exhibition, of which the following is an account extracted verbatim from the jurors' published reports:-- INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. SPECIAL JURY FOR FIRE-ENGINES. J. F. BATEMAN, F.R.S., _London_; Civil Engineer. CAPT. BENT, _London_; Superintendent of Fire Arrangements in the Exhibition. W. M. BROWN, _London_; Superintendent of Westminster Fire Brigade. EARL OF CAITHNESS, _London_. J. HAWKSHAW, _London_; Civil Engineer. C. JENNY, _Austria_; Councillor of Mines in the Imperial Royal Academy of Mines at Schemnitz. P. LUUYT, _France_; Engineer to the Imperial Commissioners of Mines. J. E. McCONNELL, _Wolverton_; late Locomotive Superintendent of the London and North Western Railway. O. PIHL, _Norway_; Civil Engineer. W. M. RANKINE, _Glasgow_; Professor of Mechanics in the University of Glasgow. CAPT. SHAW, _London_; Superintendent of the London Fire Brigade. DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, _London_. F. B. TAYLOR, _United States_; Mechanical Engineer. H. THOMAS, _Zollverein_; Manufacturer. H. TRESCA, _France_; Professor of Mechanics, President of the French Institute of Civil Engineers. REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF CLASS VIII. ON FIRE-ENGINES. _After detailing the Trials of Hand-worked Fire-Engines, the Report states that_,-- The Committee next proceeded to take the necessary steps for trying the steam fire-engines on the 1st of July, and, as before, invited the engine builders to a preliminary meeting, that they might receive full information as to the rules and regulations to be observed. In compliance with this invitation, the following engine-makers attended a meeting on the 28th of June, viz:-- Mr. Lee, of the firm of Lee and Larned, Novelty Iron-works, New York.