 Morris became infamous in some circles for his scathing and often vitriolic editorials, with one editorial about an incident at Coate Water in 1861 leading to effigies of him and copies of his paper being burned in the town.In the same year, the paper was printed using Steam Power for the first time.Using a boiler and engine built in the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway, they produced 5,000 copies a week.