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The ClayTon from Sandy Bay Dustcarts and road sweepers

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Contents No 291 | May 2014 NEWS 6-24 News & Events 92-95 Old Glory in Miniature News

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The Clayton from Sandy Bay For many years, Clayton & Shuttleworth No 40637 was at the World of Country Life at Sandy Bay, Devon, and is now in the hands of Tim Beaven.

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Rolling, rallying and roading in Leicestershire Keith Gays recalls his steam roller rallying days in Leicestershire in the 1960s and 1970s – and not a lowloader in sight.

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For the love of Leylands Adam Auditori recovered and fully restored a very rare 1925 Leyland steam wagon – and now he’s got another Leyland wagon on the way!

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78 Just riveting: Titanic Belfast Two years since launch, we look at how the successful Belfast attraction sets new standards in industrial and maritime museum 88 presentation.

New milestones for old The historic Cornish post road milestones between Bodmin and Camelford get a full makeover.

Fowler R Class Paul ‘Tex’ Johnston’s rare Fowler R Class compound traction engine No 12921 of 1911 and its history.

Steam Legends: Steve Neville Many are the escapades and tales told of road steam legend and one time mayor REGULARS of Saffron Walden, the late Steve Neville.

40 Enginelines 42 Helpline A load of old rubbish 66 Vintageworld An archive of vehicles 70 Reviews involved with collecting 82 Museum Guide rubbish and street sanitation 84 Steam Archive duties – the humble dustcart 96 Events Diary and road sweeper.

114 ‘Tail Lamp Tom’ How the (Canadian) West was won (Part 2) Behind the scenes at the Western Development Museum sites in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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62 84 56 Front Cover: Clayton & Shuttleworth No 40637 was for many years at the World of Country Life at Sandy Bay, Exmouth, Devon, and is now owned by Tim Beaven. ALAN BARNES This issue was published on April 17, 2014. The June 2014 issue of Old Glory (No 292) will be on sale from Thursday, May 15.

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Meet the team Derek Rayner

Colin Tyson Editor

Technical Advisor

Mike Dyson

Steve Dean

Correspondent

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Andrew Bruce

Roger Hamlin

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Malcolm Ranieri Photographer

James Hamilton Photographer

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STeaM TRaCTIon

The ClayTon from Sandy Bay

Tim Beaven’s Clayton & Shuttleworth No 40687 at Wiston rally, July 2013. ALAN BARNES

Collecting the Clayton from Sandy Bay in April 2012. TIM BEAVEN

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Richard Pocock steers the engine behind the tractor. TIM BEAVEN

For many years, Clayton & Shuttleworth traction engine No 40637 was at the World of Country Life attraction at Sandy Bay, Exmouth, Devon – and is now in the hands of Tim Beaven, who needed to ease his ‘steam withdrawal symptoms’, discovered Alan Barnes

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here is little doubt that the Clayton was steamed more often in 2013 than in its previous 30 years – and hopefully this coming season will also see the engine attending several events and rallies,” Tim Beaven told me as we talked about his future plans.

Tim bought Clayton & Shuttleworth 7nhp single cylinder traction engine No 40637 of 1908 in February 2012, following the owner’s decision to part with the engine which the family had owned since the early 1970s. “I had known about the engine, which was owned by John Lee down at Sandy Bay in Devon, since the 1980s, when I visited his home for the first time. He also owned a Thornycroft charabanc which had been undergoing some restoration work and the final painting had just been finished by Gerald Whittaker. In those days we were running low loaders and we got the job of taking the Thornycroft to a couple of shows and then taking it ‘home’ to Devon.

“I remember the day we arrived at Sandy Bay and John and his wife made us so very welcome and we were invited to dinner almost as soon as we’d driven through the gate. I liked John from the first moment and it is very sad that he is no longer with us. With dinner finished we were shown around the collection of other engines and vehicles and I had my first view of the Clayton which was housed in one of the sheds.

“I later learned more about the Clayton’s history from Jonathan Wheeler – who told me that it had been delivered new to the agents JM Crystal in Bury St Edmunds. The 7nhp General Purpose Traction Engine left the Stamp End Works, Lincoln, on August 14, 1908, and the dealer subsequently sold the engine to George E Paley of Timworth, West Suffolk, where it was put to general

On to the low-loader. TIM BEAVEN

agricultural work. The engine was later registered as CF 3547. After the First World War it was sold in 1919 to Frank Mortlock & Sons of Lavenham and it later passed to a Mr W Kisby of March, Cambridgeshire, although the date he bought it is, at present, unknown. By the mid-1950s the engine was in semi-derelict condition at a scrapyard in West Dereham owned by A Palmer & Sons. The engine escaped being cut up and in 1958 was bought by Michael Bryant at Pakenham Windmill, who carried out restoration work, returning the engine to steam. It then passed to William Harry of Parkshill, Glamorgan, who kept it for a couple of years before selling it to John Lee who purchased the engine in 1973.

RALLIED LOCALLY

“When John bought the engine it appeared at local shows and was used for threshing demonstrations and at the World of Country Life it could often be seen driving a sawbench. A complete restoration was carried out in 1994 with the heavy boilerwork being completed by Roger Pridham. The work included renewing part of the boiler barrel, a new firebox, front tubeplate, smokebox and tender.

The engine was also repainted and lined at this time.

“My family also owned engines and the Clayton certainly appealed to me, although John did make it plainly obvious that the engine was most definitely not for sale. The years passed although it seems only yesterday that I made that trip to Devon – but that was now over 30 years ago. In the years that followed, several engines passed through our hands and were rallied and sold on, but some years ago due to various circumstances we sold our last engine.

Eventually the ‘steam withdrawal symptoms’ became too much for me and three or four years ago I started seriously looking for another engine. 

Tim with the Clayton (and lunch!) ready for the return of the‘Sandy Bay engine’to Surrey.

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COMMErCiAL VEhiCLEs

A load of old

rubbish

Alan Barnes looks at vehicles involved with collecting rubbish and street-sanitation duties over the years – the humble dustcart and road sweeper

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here there’s muck there’s brass”, is an old adage that certainly holds true as far as waste disposal and management are concerned. In today’s pre-packed and throw-away society we generate millions of tonnes of rubbish each year and it all has to go somewhere.

While the proliferation of different coloured plastic bins to take various items of waste for recycling is a fairly recent phenomenon, the sorting of waste to reclaim materials which may be of further use is nothing new.

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Waste management today is a regulated and structured industry using a combination of modern technology and traditional landfill operations to dispose of the mountains of rubbish generated each day. However, today’s waste-disposal industry arose from very informal beginnings and can be illustrated by the groups operating in London in the 1700s.

Long before local councils and authorities undertook any responsibility for street cleaning and waste management, enterprising individuals saw the potential of making a ‘penny or two’ from other people’s rubbish.

With the streets being filthy and disease-

ridden it was not an easy way to earn a living but for many there was little alternative. At the bottom of the pile, in some cases quite literally, were the ‘street finders’ collecting old wood, metal, cigarette ends and even dog mess.

There were street buyers who would call door to door and offer to buy the household’s unwanted items; these ‘rag and bone’ men could still be seen plying their trade in the 1960s. Others, the ‘dredger-men’ and ‘mud larks’ searched the rivers and sewers for anything of value. There were also ‘dust men’ – paid employees who swept the streets and collected ‘night-soil’ and perhaps at the top of

Battersea Borough Council’s Scammell Scarab refuse collector poses with the borough’s biggest landmark. The firstclass corridor compartment stock passing by is also of interest!

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The horse-drawn refuse collector, typical of many London boroughs. STILLTIME ARCHIVE

A horse-drawn paper collection wagon in Kingston-upon-Thames. STILLTIME ARCHIVE

the tree were the owners of the many recycling or ‘rag and bottle’ shops which bought various items direct from the public and were supplied by the ‘street finders’.

Despite the serious outbreaks of disease, including cholera epidemics, the advances in medical science which were beginning to identify the causes of such illnesses did not translate immediately to a policy of rubbish collection and street cleaning.

This debate during the 1800s among politicians and those in authority ran for more than 50 years. It was largely due to the efforts of Sir Edwin Chadwick, who made the case for new waste-management methods for towns and cities and was instrumental in the publication in 1842 of the General Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain. 

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