NATIONAL TRACTION ENGINE TRUST Membership of the National Traction Engine Trust is open to those who, whether engine owners or not, have a genuine interest in the preservation of self propelled steam road vehicles, portable engines etc.
Chairman: E.A. Fillmore, 34 Northwick Park Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 2NU. Vice-Chairman: Mrs Sylvia Dudley, 12 Hillway, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK17 8UL.
The annual subscription is £12.00 for individuals, £14.00 for family membership and £7.50 for pensioners. The Trust's magazine Steaming .is sent free to members during the early part of January, April, July and October, and other benefits of membership include advantageous terms for boiler insurance as well as access to advice on technical matters. Membership of the Steam Apprentice Club is available to young people under 21; details available from that section's Chairman (see right).
Acting General Secretary: Mrs Sylvia Dudley, 12 Hillway, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK17 8UL. Membership Secretary: J.R. Cook, 25 Ripon Drive, Sleaford, Lincolnshire NG34 8UF. Treasurer: C.J.C. Barber, 6 Merrydown, Downley, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP13 5NQ Chairman, Rally Sub-Committee: A.J. Semple, Penyghent, 8 Chelwick Close, Church Stretton, Shropshire SY6 /BY. Chairman, Engine Owners Sub-Committee: M.O. Davies, Hill Farm. Avon Dassett, near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire CV33 OAA. Chairman, Steam Apprentice Club: R.T. Herring, Glebe Court, Stoke Lyne Road, Fringford, Bicester, Oxfordshire 0X6 9RJ. National Sales Officer: K.D. Shakespeare, 138 Shaw Lane, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire B60 4DZ. Insurance Officer: R.J. Blenkinsop, Cornerstones, Church Lane, Claydon, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX17 1EW.
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Volume 33 Number 3 Summer 1990 Editor: Roger West, 14 Charles Street, Market Harborough, Leicestershire LE 16 9AB Assistant Editor: Derek Rayner, 'Invicta', 9 Beagle Ridge Drive, Acomb, York YO2 3JH Display Advertising: to the Editor Small Ads to the Editor Distribution and Change of Address: John Cook, 25 Ripon Drive, Sleaford, Lincolnshire NG34 8UF The Editor is pleased to consider contributions of suitable articles, shorter items or photographs for inclusion in future issues. All material submitted is voluntary and payment cannot be made for any material published, although expenses incurred may be met. The opinions expressed in the magazine, with the exception of those printed as Trust announcements, are those of the contributors and do not indicate the views of the Trust as a whole. All items are held copyright by the contributors and/or the NTET. Next issue: The press date for any news items, recent photographs and small advertisements is 24th August 1990. ISSN 0260 - 2962 Published by the National Traction Engine Club (1984) Ltd for the National Traction Engine Trust at 14 Charles St, Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Printed by AB Printers Ltd, Leicester. Tel: (0533) 769921
Editorial Earlier this year those closely involved with railway preservation were disturbed by the implications of the Environmental Protection Bill — popularly dubbed the Green Bill. The concern was that zealots would be using the powers of any ensuing Act to stop steam locomotives from going about their business if seen to be emitting offensive smoke. The preservationists' concern was probably justified — it would only need a non-enthusiast householder to decide the Act was his chance to prove the passing steam trains full of ordinary people were seriously eroding the quality of life for all and sundry, and that particular steam railway could potentially be closed. Traction engines are more variable of habit than a steam railway but nevertheless could have been equally affected. Much smoke rises from a rally field and some green folk could be easily convinced the nuisance was only marginally less than a power station. It is good therefore that commonsense
prevails among government advisors and the Minister acknowledges steam railways and road engines 'give much pleasure to thousands at negligible cost to the environment'. News that the Green Bill won't apply to them is welcomed by railway preservationists but they at least do not have further existing legislation to contend with. Road steam engine history has always been plagued with restrictions for use on and adjacent to the highway and concern by the establishment for smoke nuisance. Many times we have featured, in our small end-of-page fillers, reference to some unfortunate driver who tangled with the police for emitting black smoke. About a hundred years ago, to placate the law, most manufacturers of engines and wagons did something to the design and construction of their products that made them 'consume their own smoke'. Despite extensive reading it has never been really clear to us just what this magical measure was, still less how the whole problem would be viewed by today's upholders of the law, All should be pleased with the decision to exempt steam engines from the implications of the Green Bill, but crews must be well aware that older regulations are concerned with what comes out of chimney tops, as well as the fact that holding a good public image is not just a matter of being within the law.
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Trust News Continental Wanderings Pudsey's Public Pride Wallis's Simplicity Rollers What do you think of this? McLarens in New Zealand Gleanings
Robin Walker Derek Rayner Ted Wyatt Derek Hattam Ken Judkins
Lighting by Fowler Steaming Around, compiled by Derek Rayner Around the World Letters, Books, New Members, Small Adverts
Cover The working demonstrations at the annual Weeting Rally in Norfolk can provide near authentic glimpses of the working scene of 60 or more years ago. Here Burrell 8hp single cylinder traction 2948 of 1907 DREADNOUGHT works a Marshall threshing drum at the 1989 gathering. (Roger West) 115
Trust News From the Chairman I regard this year of 1990 as one of consolation for the Trust particularly as regards our administration. Much has been achieved already, and gradually the various areas that require attention are being dealt with. As members will know from the last issue of Steaming, the Engine Owners sub-committee has been reformed with Michael Davies as chairman. A first meeting of this important sub-committee has been held; some new volunteers have come forward to jnin the existing members, which should make for a strong and active unit to deal with all matters of interest to engine owners. It is hoped to incor-
porate the work of those preparing the draft of the Code of Practice for Boilers land maintenance thereof) within the Engine Owners sub-cornrnittee as it is felt the considerable experience within this group will enable a worthwhile document to be produced. It is now July and the rally season is at its height, enabling all to enjoy our hobby to its fullest. One aspect of Trust work that the summer brings to the fore is much activity by the rally stand operators ably organised by our Sales Officer, Keith Shakespeare. The Trust owes a great deal to him and his dedicated hand of helpers I would ask all members to support the Trust stands and the sales organisation generally as much as possible, both by
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How they often were — although wiped over with an oily rag in parts Fowler class 86 showmans engine 14847 of 1920 THE ADJUTANT presents a decidedly workaday appearance whilst standing amongst coal and mud at the fairground at Doncaster in April 1937. It was owned by F. Cox. Note the lack of decorated canopy supports and lamps and that the exciter dynamo is mounted on the belly tank. 116
direct purchase and through postal sales. Lastly I would draw all members' attontion to the co'vencc notice of this year's Annual General Meeting which appears elsewhere in Trust Notes. (Eric Fillmore, chairman)
Engine Owners Column Engine Owners sub Committee This sub-committee reconvened after a six month break on 12th May. Two new members, myself and Ian Howitt of Wakefield, joined the group. We started by reviewing the present position and I was very conscious of the excellent work, particularly in relation to supplies of goods and services, that has been done under the past chairman. I know he will be much missed. We have a lot of information which we hope to publish In the future, but in the meantime anyone who is having difficulty obtaining the services they need should contact myself or John Wharton (85 Corn Street, Witney, Oxfordshire OX8 7DH). The sub committee agreed that the recommended engine appearance money for next season should increase to £60 per day. We are discussing a practical engine driving course for spring 1991, probably at an engine owner's premises in the Midlands. This would be an informal and inexpensive event with participants probably bringing a caravan etc. I should be pleased to hear from anyone who would be interested. Now that repairs are so costly members should think every carefully when they value their engines for insurance purposes as the insurers normally won't pay more than the insured value in the event of an accident, even when the third party is to blame. Members who are recommissioning engines not previously or recently insured should allow plenty of time for boiler inspections, cold and in steam, as the insurers will only cover engines
at rallies when they have issued both documents. Finally, my attention has been drawn to a case where a tractor driver was fined for inconsiderate driving after having held up traffic by his slow speed — so do try to keep disruption to a minimum when driving engines on the road. (Michael Davies, chairman, Engine Owners sub Committee)
Environmental Protection Bill Further to the brief note on page 61 of the last issue regarding the potential threat to the continued use of steam engines under the Environmental Protection Bill (the so called 'Green Bi11'1, official confirmation that the Bill will not affect road steam engines has now been received from the Department of the Environment. Early in May the Department acknowledged in a news release that steam trains and other steam vehicles and vessels give pleasure to thousands of people at negligible cost to the environment and that measures would be taken to ensure they would be exempt from the nuisance provisions of the Environmental Protection Bill. Amendments to the Bill, introduced at Committee stage, will ensure road steam vehicles will not be liable to statutory nuisance action under the Bill in respect of emission of steam and smoke. On the public highway they will continue to be subject to the Road Vehicles Construction and Use Regulations 1986. For off the road vehicles, no new requirements are imposed. In a letter to Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Minister for the Environment and Countryside David Trippier states he looked very carefully at the position of road steam vehicles and was 'satisfied that we are not imposing any restrictions on them, certainly nothing that would prevent their appearance at steam fairs and the like. Nor does the Bill affect their use on the public highway. I hope this reassures members ... of the NTET.' We are grateful to Lord Montagu for bringing the attention of the Department of the Environment to the possible problem for road steam vehicles and to John Crawley for instigating the approach. The above exemptions, whilst very welcome, do not of course remove any obligation of drivers to keep their charges within existing law regarding emission of smoke. The attention of owners and crews is again drawn to Traction the Trust's publication Engines and the Law, which concisely sets down requirements on many legal issues as well as smoke. All members
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having responsibility for engines on the highway should surely have a copy easily to hand, but the number presently sold seems to indicate this is not the case. The Sales Officer would be pleased to send a copy to you for the modest sum of £2.25 (£2.75 to non-members), or you could purchase one from the sales stands at rallies and hang it up in the living van.
Membership I hope all existing members will be reading this issue of the magazine, having received it on time and with the label showing the correct address and postcode. The transfer of data onto computer has now been successfully completed with only minimal problems encountered. To ensure that my records are correct, if any of you have spotted any discrepancies in your name, address and postcode (or lack of it) on the label, would you please let me know. Due to errors within the Trust's administration following the 1989 AGM, the wrong revised rate for Family Membership was notified in Steaming. The correct amount is £14 per annum. Any member requiring a refund should contact me and I also ask those readers holding Family Membership who have recently filled in a new bankers order, to write to me for a new form showing the correct amount of £14. (John Cook, Membership Secretary)
Small Adverts Whilst it is pleasing to have the Small Adverts section of the magazine being increasingly used by members, it does inevitably add to the pressure of space within each issue. Two minor constraints have therefore been added to the free advertising available to members. Firstly, a maximum of 50 words (excluding name, address etc) will be allowed to each member per issue, and secondly a more strict interpretation must now be put on the requirement that adverts should appertain to road steam engines and associated items. Although many members have interests beyond road steam engines, we regret the time has come to restrict the subject matter of adverts to road steam engines; including portables, and to engine spares and tools, literature and photographs, supplies and services, and to associated equipment (threshing tackle, living vans, low loaders for transporting etc). We regret that in future stationary steam and paraffin engines, and general tractor and agricultural sales and wants will have to be excluded from the Small Adverts column.
NTEC Sales We offer many apologies to all the members who have asked why there was no list of rallies at which the Sales Stands would be appearing published in the last issue of Steaming. The omission was due to the springtime 117
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Steam Party and Road Run on 13/ 14th October 1990 at The Ewe and Lamb, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Worcester. (near Avoncroft Museum of Buildings)
Exhibits will include various steam engines, vintage cars and commercial vehicles, oil engines, fair organs and much more.
14th October at the Ewe and Lamb public house, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. If you are interested in coming to the event, either with an exhibit or for camping, please contact Keith or Tracey on 0527 575003, or see us at rallies. (Tracey Shakespeare)
The Rally List 1990 One additional event can now be added to the 1990 Rally List supplement included with the last issue: • 29th August to 2nd September — Great Dorset Steam Fair, Southdown, Tarrant Hinton, Blandford, Dorset (about 150 engines expected). M.F. Oliver, Dairy Mead, Child Okeford, Blandford, Dorset DT11 8HD.
The Road Run starts approx 11.00 on Sunday, 14th and is open to any exhibit. Admission free. Car parking 50p per vehicle. For camping, exhibits or enquiries please contact Keith or Tracey Shakespeare on 0527 575003 after 6pm, or see them at Trust sales stands
flooding at Towyn, North Wales, where Keith's mother has her home. The bungalow spent six days in four feet of salt water and, of course, many problems ensued. After much rebuilding and redecoration, Mrs Shakespeare has at last been able to move back, much to evoryono's relief. The awful event is also the reason why our caravan was not at the earlier rallies, though we were, thanks to Sylvia Dudley and her camper van. The events that the sales team will be attending during the second half of the season are as follows: July — Cawoods, Ulster (David and Andrea DuffiII); Rempstone (Ken and Edie Beeby); Woodcote (Keith and Tracey Shakespeare); Weeting (Keith IL; Netley Marsh (David); Ross-onWye (David); Rushmoor (Keith). August — Redhill (David); Wadebridge (Keith); Knowl Hill (Keith); Cadeby (Ken); St Agnes (Keith N); Fairford (Keith); (David); Egham Harewood House (Mick and Maureen Garrett); Expo '90 (Ken); Bishops Castle (David); Great Dorset Steam Fair (all sales team M). September — Waddesdon (Keith); Melees (Mick); Knepp Castle (David); Roxton (Keith); Barleylands (Keith). 118
October — NTET Steam Party (Mick MIL The dates and further details of these rallies (some have been set down with their more popular names) appeared in the Rally List supplement published in the last issue. Events marked • will have the Ti uses hospitality tent at them and our thanks go to Weeting, the WESE Society and the Great Dorset Steam Fair who allow our sales stand to expand to a marquee for the period of their shows, and enable us to offer more to members. We now have available this year's pre-paid admission tickets for the Great Dorset Steam Fair at Tarrant Hinton, to be held from Wednesday 29th August to Sunday 2nd September. The tickets are available by post from our Mail Order address, or in person from our rally stands, £4.00 per adult ticket and £2.00 for children and pensioners. This is a 25% discount on gate prices on the day. Please note this offer ends on 19th August for mail order applications. Please enclose SAE with applications. Keith and I, with the help of the rest of the sales team are again organising a Steam Party and Road Run on behalf of the Trust on 13th/
Steam Heritage Awards The Great Railway Show, opened in April at the National Railway Museum in York, provided a highly suitable location for the presentation of the 1990 Steam Heritage Awards on 4th May. The annual awards, now in their fifth year, all earned engraved miner's lamp trophies, certificates and cash prizes and were presented by Malcolm Edwards, commercial director of British Coal, sponsors of the Steam Heritage award scheme. The winners were selected from a record number of over sixty submissions, Mr Edwards referring in his speech to the spread of preservation of steam equipment as a boom industry. The 1990 Awards were presented as follows: • Premier prize — £3000 to 6024 Preservation Society Ltd for the restoration from a scrapyard wreck to mainline running condition over a 16 year period of former GWR King class locomotive 6024 KING EDWARD 1. • Road category — £750 to HMS SULTAN Welfare Fund for the operation of their 1930 Super Sentinel wagon. The wagon is owned by the Royal Navy marine engineering training establishment HMS SULTAN at Gosport, Hampshire and is in regular attendance at charity functions and, of course, rallies, throughout the season. It has steamed 70000 miles since 1960 and its running gear and bodywork are maintained to a high standard by a group of enthusiastic
volunteers. The Sentinel showed the flag for road steam by being the only prizewinning entry to be present at the ceremony. • Rail category — £750 to East Anglian Railway Museum for the rebuilding of ex LNER N7 class 0-6-2 tank loco 69621. • Marine category — £750 to North Western Steamship Co of Wirral for the restoration of River Mersey steam tug KERNE. • Stationary Machinery category — £750 to Chris Evans and Paul Akrigg for the rebuilding of 1883 mill engine SARA at Providence Mill, Earlsheaton, West Yorkshire. • Special Merit Awards of £500 each to The Black Country Museum at Dudley for their re-creation of Newcommen's 1712 steam engine and to the Barry Steam Locomotive Group for work they did to promote the rescue of the railway locos in the South Wales scrapyard. Guests at the awards presentation heard Mr Edwards pledge British Coal's continued support for the steam preservation movement. As well as continuing the awards competition in 1991, this support would also embrace a series of trials to ensure that suitable coals would be forthcoming from British Coal's reduced number of collieries and opencast mining sites.
Sentinel Super wagon 8393 of 1930 — winner of the Road Category of the 1990 Steam Heritage A wards.
Obituaries Godfrey Hobson Godfrey Hobson of Durban, South Africa, who died in February 1990 aged 76, could be said to be the 'South African Alan Duke', so much did he know of engines and their owners both here and there. Here? Yes, after World War 2, he, then a schoolmaster, and the late Michael Salmon spent their weekends together travelling in ever-widening circles around his Shropshire school to wherever there was or had been an engine, and their findings noted in the RLS Journal. He had truly caught the traction engine bug (what other manmade idol, besides the sailing ship, can arouse so much devotion?). During the last war Godfrey joined the Merchant Navy and because of navigational knowledge, served on the bridge, mostly in a small Durban-based cargo ship. Later, preferring the climate there and before politics overshadowed that beautiful country, he moved to a school in the Durban
area. And there at Michael's suggestion, whilst on SA business visits, is where I met him. Tall, with a commanding presence and loud voice, he seemed to be saying, "It's necessary that I'm like this...". But, if you weren't a schoolboy you could always detect kindness and humour; in fact, he kept his friends laughing all the time. He married there and with his wife Connie did sterling work for the Durban Missions to Seamen. His lesson reading and the occasional address were impressive — knowing how to speak, of course, is part of a schoolmaster. He was greatly taken by the early Appleford events but disapproved of the National Traction Engine Club which sprung from them. "But Godfrey", I would say, "The word 'National' surely is sacred and shows we're an offshoot of the National Traction Engine Owner's & Users Association. We're going to preserve many of your discoveries and show
them all over the country. We're not rivals to the RLS but supplementary." When this prophesy had come true, he and Connie visited us and after seeing a rally or two, he changed his mind and joined the Trust. Thus, like so many of us, he became a member of both movements. I have lost a dear friend, but Connie will continue to take Steaming, and write to us occasionally. (Esmond Kimbell) Dan Howle With the passing of our old friend Dan Howle at the age of 94, a life that experienced the changes of almost a century has come to an end. Richard Daniel Howle was born into a family haulage business in 1896. He left school half time at the age of 10 and by his early teens was involved in long cross country trips with horse-drawn vans and wagons — one very early experience being snowbound for four days whilst 119
attempting to cross Holmfirth Moss en route to Huddersfield. About this time the family bought one of the first Foden steam wagons and thus commenced a friendship with Edwin Foden and his family and the management at Elworth Works, Sandbach. Another long lasting friendship was with the Wedgwood family, steam engineers and boiler makers in Stoke-on-Trent. Arthur Wedgwood, once a Foden test driver, will be remembered by many as a stalwart member of the NTEC and the RLS. During World War 1 the Howie lai ri;:y :lad a uul
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ships propellers cast in the Stoke Foundry of Billington & Newton to shipyards in Glasgow and the North East. Any propellers larger than railway loading gauge had to go by road. Dan's reminiscences of struggling over the old Shap road with overhanging castings on Foden wagons were very vivid. Through the middle years of this century, with steam and then the very first diesels (always Foden — except for one Garrett undertype steamer which didn't stick the pace) there was the never ending transport of pottery ware to Liverpool Docks, with return loads of corn to the Stoke area. After a judicious present of a floral tea service to the wife of the water board official on the approaches to Liverpool, Dan never had any trouble about cracking a hydrant on Merseyside! After arduous World War 2 haulage, including coping with the blackout, spares shortages and awkward loads, the firm of Richard Howie & Son disappeared in the nationalisation programme and Dan started a new career by purchasing a coal mine. In 1958 he was the first person to be approached by Stan Wedgwood, who was forming one of the first regional affiliated clubs of the NTEC. Dan became chairman of the North Staffordshire & Cheshire Traction Engine Club and very soon got back into steam with the Club's acquisition of Mann's tractor 1287 TINY TIM, to be followed by his own purchase of Burrell 3746 and Foster Wellington tractor 14431. Dan and the Club organised many of the early north midland rallies, starting with the first at Alton Towers in 1959. He took part in the Club's activities and drove engines until ill health overtook him some years ago. (Phil Swindlehurst) Wilfred Lane I regret to report the death in April of Wilfred Lane of Longford, Gloucester. Wilfred was born in Winchcombe in 1902, his father being driver of the Burrell showmans engine 120
DUCHESS OF WORCESTER. By the age of nine Wilf was adept at looking after the engine on belt work. About the start of the World War 1 the family moved to Stroud, where his father drove for Hawkes Bros of Dudbridge, and where Wilf began his engine driving career on a Garrett tractor, moving later on to Burrell road loco 3852. After the firm gave up in 1920, Wilf drove a number of other engines in the area, including wagons and rollers, and a Fowler road loco. After the steam era, he and his wife Connie, whom he married in 1939, moved to Gii.JuucJI.C1 %NI lel e
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An Aveling Exhumed Reading the account in our last issue of the unearthing of the St Pancras Borough's Aveling & Porter 10 ton roller 10114 caused Bill Love, the Road Locomotive Society's librarian, to recall a half forgotten item in his care. Within one of the Society's scrapbooks was this undated, largely unidentified and faded press cutting. It does in fact show Aveling 10114 being used for a most remarkable mission of mercy. The accompanying caption records the scene as showing the 'filling of water bottles from a steam roller to give warmth to Mr Charles Paynter who had lain under ruins soaked by firemen's hoses for seventeen hours. He wanted warmth more than anything — and this was the only hot water obtainable.' Just where and when the picture was originally published needs further research but whether in national or local press it was not unusual for dates and locations not to be quoted in contemporary reports. However, the registration number provides evidence the drama took place somewhere in the St Pancras borough, probably during the London blitz in 1940-41. The engine is now to be named CUMBERLAND in view of its long sojourn in Cumberland Market — maybe the name NIGHTINGALE should have been a contender?
which resulted in a spell in hospital this spring. A week after coming out, he suffered a stroke from which he did not recover. Our condolences go out to his devoted wife Connie at this time. (Richard Willcox) Ted Rawlinson Ted Rawlinson, a stalwart of the Essex preservation scene and a Vice President of the East Anglian TES died in March. In his early days he had driven steam ploughing engines for a living and in preservation owned a Fowler ploughing engine, two Fowler tractions, a Burrell convertible and a rare Aveling timber tractor fitted with a winding drum beneath the boiler, driven from the crankshaft. The funeral took place at Hatfield Peverel, with a large number of colleagues attending and, as a token of respect, John Down's Burrell showmans tractor THE MAY stood outside the church. (Pat Freeman)
Future Dates Annual General Meeting Advance notice is given to all members that this year's Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday, 24th November 1990 at the Leeds Industrial Museum, Armley, Leeds. Formal notice together with all relevant information, proxy forms and audited accounts for the year ended 31st March 1990 will be sent to all paid-up members of the Trust with the Autumn issue of Steaming. Any member may submit a motion for discussion at the Annual General Meeting and may also submit nominations for the various elections to be held. All motions must be in writing, signed by the proposer and by a seconder and, in the case of nominations, the member being proposed must also agree in writing to act in the best interests of the Trust, to attend committee meetings and to abide by the Constitution of the Trust;
'Successful Smoke Appeal. The prosecution of the Little Malvern Granite Co Ltd in respect of the use of an Aveling & Porter tractor in April last resulted in action by the Motor Union (through the Commercial Motor Users Association) and the support of their appeal at Worcester Quarter Sessions ... has led to the quashing of
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this to be attached to the nomination. Such items for discussion, in order to be on the published Agenda for the Annual General Meeting, must reach the company secretary land vicechairman) Sylvia Dudley not later than Saturday 8th September 1990 (address inside the front cover). Officers to be elected include a chairman and vice-chairman with seven committee members. In some cases area representation is involved; it is hoped that the areas can continue to be represented. In all cases the foregoing applies only to paid-up members; membership numbers should be quoted.
Corrections A correction is necessary to one of the headings in the Sentinel Archives article on page 82 of the last issue. An editorial assumption added the bracketed explanation 'sketch book' to heading 3. SB Drawings. In fact, the origin and explanation of the SB prefix is not known — could any reader make a suggestion as to what the initials do mean?
the conviction, it being held that the tractor was constructed on the principle of consuming its own smoke. It will be remembered that T.C. Aveling AMICE [of Birmingham] gave expert evidence at the original hearing.' (from Commercial Motor, 1 1 th July 1907.)
OUR MAGAZINE 25 YEARS AGO
Engine news in the Summer issue included a report that Edwards of Swindon, showman, had started on the restoration of Burrell showmans 3651 KITCHENER which had stood under cover in their yards for over 30 years; Foster agricultural 3682, owned by David Harrower of Bedford, was being fitted with a new firebox. In Belfast Garrett 4CD tractions 33414 and 33545 were still in use in the docks area by Harkness, cartage contractors with a third (333481 laid aside for spare parts along with Garrett road locomotive 27946 VERA. With the arrival of the tar spraying season several steam rollers were hard at it in Wales — the two AvelingBarfords in Rhondda; Mountain Ash's 12 ton compound Aveling & Porter and Cardigan CC's 8 ton Aveling. Foden wagon 5218 had been on tour on behalf of Halls of Manchester, makers of confectionery (now there's a word which has become old fashioned in 25 years). Arthur Wedgwood had taken the 5 ton wagon through much of England, Wales and Scotland between October 1963 and December 1964 and showed he had not lost the skills of old by journeying up to 16 miles without adding to the fire (on Welsh coal) and up to 40 miles between water stops. The subscription rate had risen to £1. 121
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Refreshments — Family Entertainment — Free Car Park 'IwiO4-10~•"1 Trade stand applications, exhibitors entry forms, camping for non exhibitors, write to ... Rally Secretary: John Crawley, Bunkers Hill House, Badby, Northants, NN11 6AW.
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CONTINENTAL WANDERINGS Robin Walker all photographs taken by the author in June or July 1989.
Having decided on a two week touring holiday of the Continent in June and July 1989 it seemed reasonable — to me at least — to try and locate a few engines whilst 'on tour'. The first problem was to find out where engines were likely to be located on our intended route from our landing port of Vlissingen in Holland, across that country, through Luxembourg, and then south east through West Germany to Heidelburg, Stuttgart, and Munich to the Austrian border at Salzburg; then further east to Vienna. From there the return journey was south west to Klagenfurt, across the Tirol to Innsbruck and through the small country of Leichtenstein and into Switzerland to Luzern, and then north to West Germany again — the Black Forest, Frankfurt, Cologne and so back to Vlissingen. A study of Steaming for the past few years enabled me to compile a list of engines worth investigating, and with this in hand we arrived in Holland early one morning after the overnight crossing from Sheerness — all ready to sally forth on to continental roads. Our first target was Bettembourg south of the city of Luxembourg where the Winter 1986/87 magazine reported the existence of a roller. Bettembourg turned out to be a larger town than expected, but we located the Parc Municipal near the railway station to find, residing amongst the roses, 1931 Ruthemeyer roller number 726. It was reasonably photographable and in fairly good condition, complete with the appropriate plates revealing its identity. The next objective was a roller of undetermined make reported in the Summer 1987 issue in a yard in the small town of Kirchheimbolanden in West Germany, some 25 miles northwest of Mannheim. After much driving around and asking people who merely replied with a blank stare the roller
was spotted hiding behind a hedge, only being visible in the summer, with leaves on the hedges, whilst travelling in a southerly direction along the main road which by-passes the town. The yard belonds to Stilgenbauer & Walther and through the kind assistance of a workman we gained access to the yard to view and photograph the roller. The roller turned out to be Zettelmeyer 724 of 1942, mounted rather precariously on three large concrete pipe sections with cut outs to locate the rolls. With two engines successfully found we continued to the Heidelberg area and the town of Sinshelm to pay our second visit to the magnificent Auto and Technik Museum, Our first visit to this Museum was reported in the Autumn 1984 issue. Since this
previous visit the place has doubled in size and several of the exhibits have been re-arranged. The Lan,: roller mounted on the pedestal has disappeared and could not be located. The engines present were as follows: Aveling & Porter roller 5784, HofherSchranz (Clayton & Shuttleworth) portable 56049, Lanz stationary engine 35703, the two J. Kemna ploughing engines inscribed 'Kustrin Typ' and 'Magdeburg Typ' (which despite extensive investigations failed to show any identity numbers), Heilbronn roller 368, a Kant Bauverwaltung roller converted to diesel power and with a drive belt inside a rather prominent casing on the right hand side but no identity number, an Ruthemeyer roller unidentified DOMINIK, Lanz roller 27473, Garrett roller 27564, Theordor Ohl roller 186, and Ruthemeyer rollers 256 and 426; all were present on our previous visit in 1983. Two new additions however were a Munktells portable 6373, and parked in one of the car parks an unidentified roller manufactured by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen. Our next visit was to the Fahrzeug Museum at Marxzell, south of Karlsruhe where Wallis & Steevens Advance roller 'look alike' reported in the winter 1987/88 Steaming was located and confirmed as Ruthemeyer 579 of 1928, previously operated by road builders Strabag. The next port of call was the town of Sindelfingen south west of Stuttgart where another unidentified roller was reported in our Summer 1988
Well hidden, from the road, by the hedge is Zettelmeyer roller 724 of 1942 at Kirchheimbolandem, West Germany. 123
Garrett compound roller 27564 of 1909 displayed at the Sinsheim Museum.
magazine, outside the works of Richard Meyer GMBH. Once again, with no precise location and a fairly large town, finding the engine could have been a problem. Having travelled south down the autobahn from Stuttgart and taken the main route into Sindelfingen we were halted by traffic lights after about a quarter of a mile. Througl-i the tl cen iv the light an office block bearing the name of Richard Meyer GMBH; we duly turnod right and there on hard-standing outside the office block was the gleaming roller in a black, green, white and red colour scheme. It seemed almost as if it could be steamed with relatively little attention — boiler condition, of course, permitting. The machine ws built by MaschinenbauGesellschaft Heilbronn, number 1026 of 1928. The next items on our list were the two Henke ploughing engines reported in the Winter 1983/84 Steaming at the Landwirtschaft Museum, Hohenheim University to the south east (not south west) of Stuttgart. We eventually located the University and with a little help from the locals, the Museum, where placed outside was one large ploughing engine and plough, along with a further concrete stand where the wheelmarks on the concrete indicated another engine had once stood. The engine present was built in 1911, weighed 19500 kilos and was built by A. Heucke Dampfpfluglokomotiv Fabrik of Gatersleben, number 288. The second engine, number 460, we later discovered had been removed to the firm of Bosch for overhaul. From Hohenheim we travelled the short distance to Kircheim-unter-Teck to locate the Fowler ploughing engine reported to be at the Max Eyth Schule. We arrived on the evening of the day of the town festival and the hotelier advised us that two engines had been in steam at the festival! A hasty visit to the centre of town failed to locate either engine, but the following morning we proceeded to track down the engines. However first we visited the works of A. Waggershauser Strassenbau in Stuttgarter Strasse to check on the displayed Zettelmeyer
This compound cylindered roller, standing in the car park at Sinsheim, is probably built by Esslingen. 124
Another exhibit at Sinsheim: Ruthemeyer 256 of 1914 has single crank compound cylinders.
Fowler ploughing engine 12137 of 1909 at Kircheim-u-Teck the day after it had been in steam at the town's festival.
Fowler roller 12379 of 1915 in the course of restoration at Kircheim-u-Teck,
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roller number 610 found on our earlier visit in 1983. We then located the Max Eyth Schule, but no ploughing engine — only a large railway locomotive. With the assistance of a helpful local we were taken to the local council yard where sitting just inside was 1909 Fowler 12137. The engine is steamed quite regularly and had recently completed its boiler test. With further help from a fellow local enthusiast we located the other engine 1934 Zettelmeyer 11 ton roller 607 in the same yard. The Fowler is owned by the Landkreis (District Council) whilst the roller is owned by the town of Kircheim. From further discussions with the enthusiast we were referred to other premises in the town where owner Richard Plantz was restoring 1915 Fowler roller number 12379. Our next referral was to the nearby town of Weilheim, where outside the works of RAU Agrotechnik stood another Fowler ploughing engine, the pair to the Kircheim engine. 12136, painted green and black, stood on grass outside the works (the firm originally owned both engines) with a mini 'greenhouse' cover over the motion to protect it from the weather. There were also said to be two further rollers in the area, but we failed to locate those. Our next quest for engines was some 130 miles further east at Landshut where in the suburb of Schonbrunn, at the Landwerk Lehrenstatten, we located two more A. Heucke ploughing engines — both built in 1928, numbers 743 and 744, and housed in a glass fronted purposebuilt display building along with a plough. It was very obvious that these engines were worked — probably quite regularly. It was not possible to gain access but with a great deal of patience, and manoeuvering by my wife of coats to act as a sun shield, it became possible to obtain some photographs. With that completed we headed south east to Salzburg and Austria. A couple of days later we reached Vienna where the hunt was on for the Henschel roller 1005 displayed in the Jungenspielplatz near the Praterpark. Regretably this has now been removed
Fowler ploughing engine 12136 displayed outside the RAU Agrotechnik works at Weilheim. 125
Heucke ploughing engine 744 of 1928 at Schonbrunn is steamed occasionally, if judged by the oil marks beneath it.
and replaced by a red painted diesel roller with a mock chimney and no one seemed to be able to help on the whereabouts of the Henschel. Also in the Vienna area in the suburb of Simmering we located the 1927 18 ton Puricelli roller with the Breda boiler number 4755 at the works of TeeragAsdag AG in 7 Haidequerstrasse. The number 7 is not of the building but of the street, there being some twelve Haidequerstrasse's in the industrial area of Simmering. Our journey then took us south west to just north of Klagenfurt where in the small town of St. Viet we located our next engine. Parked outside the offices and yard of the Strassen-Meisterei St. Veit at 51A Klagenfurtstrasse and beside the railway level crossing was a very interesting black painted roller in very good condition. Built in 1926 by Wiener Lokomotivfabrik-Aktien Gesselschaft at Vienna-Floridsdorf it was works number 123. Our final engine hunt in Austria was for the roller reported at Zell-am-See in Steaming for Summer 1984, but despite exhaustive searches no trace could be found. A few days later, after a spot of skiing and with our memories full of magnificent mountain scenery, we headed for Switzerland where we attempted to find the 1893 Aveling & Porter roller 3302 reported in a yard behind the Autobahn Police station at Waderswil, south east of Zurich. The police station and yard were located 126
but no sign of the roller, unless it was inside one of the many sheds and garages. We later arrived in the Luzern area where our first foray was to find the roller reported at Rotzloch near Stans. (The Luzern Transport Museum was not visited on this occasion; a Garrett roller and Oerlikon portable engines are exhibits.) A very large works was found at Rotzloch owned
by Muller-Steinag Baustoff AG where, near the lakeside pier, was displayed a roller in good condition and other items of road building equipment. Despite exhaustive searches no clue to the roller's manufacturer could be found. The canopy was marked 'Schnyder Pluss & Cie Strassenbau Rotzloch' a company presumably now taken over by Muller-Steinag. The only item of information gleaned was a brass plate inscribed 'Association Suisse de Proprietaires de Chaudciros a Vapeur No. 2723'. The next engine we attempted to locate was the one reported in our Summer 1984 magazine beside the wad lu Olren al Zofingen. Here again searches were in vain until we went through Oftringen, north of Zofingen, where beside the road on the left hand side travelling north towards Olten was the Fowler roller 9283 outside the premises of Strub A.G. Strassenbau. A report in the Autumn 1987 issue reported a roller on display at the premises of a firm called Valli some 50 kms from Basle on the road to Aarau with others under cover. Despite a detailed search of the whole road from Olten to Aarau and back to Basle no trace could be found of the engines or of a firm of that name. The final search in Switzerland was for Fowler roller number 8244 reported in Steaming for Spring 1984 outside the works of a firm called legler AG at Liestal. Despite searches through company directories at the post office no trace of such a firm was found. A tour of the main roads of this reasonably large
Austrian built Floridsdorf compound roller 123 of 1926 at St Veit, Klagenfurt.
town also revealed no trace. Finally, after practically abandoning the search, we headed north towards Basle where beside route 2 as we left Leistal we found the hunted for roller outside the works of Ziegler AG!! With our holiday now beginning to draw to a close we headed north into West Germany and the Black Forest area. A couple of days later we tried to track down the Fowler roller reported in the Winter 1987/88 magazine at Hessenpark open air museum at Frankfurt. After extensive searches and many enquiries Hessenpark was finally located — 48 miles from Frankfurt at Saalburg, north of Bad Homburg! Hessenpark itself is a very impressive feat of preservation of old buildings, houses, farms, windmills and even a church, from all over Germany, recreated as a village. Located in an open sided barn, but with wire mesh sides thereby hampering access and photography, is a roller — not the reported Fowler but Theodor Oil 14 tonner 145 of 1909 owned by H.W. Doerich of Frankturt. The roller was previously operated by the road building firm of Nickel & Selz of Mannheim as their fleet number 17 and it operated with their Freiburg works until 1961. We then headed north again this time for the Phantasialand leisure park at Bruhl, south of Cologne, to see Fowler showmans conversion 14758 of 1920 IRON DUKE sold to a German owner some years ago and now resident at this park. It was not in steam — merely a static exhibit, the galloping horses being operated by independent means. With that we headed north yet again back to Vlissingen and the excellent Olau Line ferry to Sheerness.
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We did, incidentally, also have time to have a good holiday between the engines — all 34 of them. POSTSCRIPT. Our Editor, Roger West, informs me that following a visit by him to the roller at Rotzloch, near Luzern (see our Summer 1987 issue), he enquired of the company of the machine's history. In reply the company engineer said they were proud of their unique steam roller, but regretted that not much was known about it despite intensive investigation. He said it was made in 1929 by Hambolt. Subsequent enquiries to continental steam enthusiasts have failed to shed further light on that name, but it has been suggested the
roller was in fact built by King, a small film which existed at Zurich-Seebach until the turn of the century. The conflicting information may result from occasional continental practice of boilers and the rest of the machine being manufactured by different firms, with the boiler details, for insurance reasons, tending to survive in owners' records. Can any of our Swiss or German readers comment further? A King roller, of rather different layout, was also illustrated in our Summer 1987 issue. The roller preserved at Rotzloch is very well maintained, despite being in the open and has many unusual features — twin high pressure cylinders, radial type valve gear and a spoked flywheel.
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Pudsey's Public Pride Derek Rayner Pudsey is in the heart of West Yorkshire. I ying between the sprawling and built up industrial centres of Leeds and Bradford, the green fields which even now surround the town give it an individuality. Pudsey is famous on two scores — Len Hutton, England's great cricketing batsman started his game at Pudsey St Lawrence and over the years the Treacle Mines gave up quantities of that product to be sent by packhorse to Ossett Docks at Wakefield — but maybe only near locals will be inclined to believe the latter folk tale! Steam locomotion came to Pudsey in April 1878 when a railway branch line was opened from Stanningley to Pudsey Greenside, and steam on the road followed soon after in October 1881 when Pudsey Local Board became the proud possessor of Green 10 ton single cylinder roller 1081. By later standards the machine had 128
several unusual features but they were typical of the contemporary product of the Leeds maker. Salter safety valves and bobbin steering were items shared with other manufacturers but the unusually small diameter front roll with the forecarriage bolted under the smokebox was a Green oddity, and this arrangement, together with the spoked flywheel made the roller look something like a convertible, which it was not. The Green had a relatively long working life of 40 years before being replaced and the first illustration (collection Derek Rayner) shows the council's pride outside the Park Tavern
in Church Lane, with the Unitarian Church in the background. In June 1921 Fowlers took the old Green roller in part exchange for one of their machines, complete with Fowlor Wood tar spraying attachments. This, works number 15816, carried registration C2168, an index number which dates from before 1910. It is not clear at this distance in time how this application came about — it may have come from the old Green roller, but there was no requirement to register rollers before 1921 and old registration numbers, in those days, were not usually transferred to new
vehicles. The second picture shows the DN class Fowler outside Pudsey Fire Station (where it was kept when not in use) with highways foreman William Pearson on the left and driver John Rayner on the footplate; the latter had fetched the machine new from Fowlers and we thank his son Jack Rayner (no relation to me) for allowing us to use the picture. Note the chain drive from the flywheel to the tarpump atop the tar tank under the boiler. There is another chain to the spreading brush at the rear of the tender. The Fowler also served the local authority — by now Pudsey Borough Council — for a good term. About 1954 it was replaced by a diesel roller and sold to contractor Claude Richardson of Hensall, Goole, being last licensed for use in 1959. Presum ably it was scrapped shortly after. Brian Shaw's picture shows Fowler 15816 in Richardson's yard in May 1959, along with an Aveling-Barford DX diesel roller. At sometime in its career the roller had gained a canopy and the headstock carries the C2168 registration on a cast plate — does the shape give a clue as to why it came to be on a machine new in 1921? Sixty plus years of steam rolling in Pudsey thus came to an end but in 1959 another Fowler came to the town, this time a donation from local dignitary Sir Walter Ward to stand in Pudsey Park for the benefit of the locality's younger generation — one of the numerous 'parked-up' rollers that came into being during that time when adventure playgrounds first came into vogue. Time confuses people's memories and already locals think of the interloper as 'Pudsey's roller' — even Jack Rayner, was recently prompted to write to the local press to ask what readers knew about what he thought to be his father's old engine! The plaything is, in fact, Fowler 15752, another DN class 10 ton compound roller new to West Riding CC in February 1921, registration WR7508. From the WRCC it was sold to Leeds contractors Yorkshire Hennibique Construction, before taking up its static role in February 1959 with a coat of new dark green paint. Brian Shaw's second picture shows the roller getting used to its new role in the park a few weeks after its installation — and there is a link with the heading picture for behind the railings to the right of the Green roller is ... Pudsey Park. Although it hasn't yet served local residents and ratepayers for as long as its harder worked brothers, Fowler 15752 would by now seem to have
done its civic duty to Pudsey. It has become an historic relic of the sort too valuable to continue to suffer its inevitable exposure and vandalism. Surely the time has come to allow it to be released to preservation in a better
form than at present. Acknowledgements and thanks are due to Alan Duke for assistance with engine histories and to Brian Shaw for local details.
'Unruly Engines. — A traction engine belonging to the Sheffield Steam-hauling Company recently had to run from Totley to Sheffield; but at Totley, for some unexplained cause, it swerved from its course and ran upon the footpath, doing considerable damage. The cumbersome machine having been again set on the roadway, it went safely until it reached a dip in the road, where a chain belonging to the steering gear broke, and it dashed over the footpath and bulged a wall
and palisading. Another engine was sent to drag the broken down machine, and the two proceeded towards the town until just before Broadfield toll-bar, when the damaged engine, descending the fall in the road more quickly than its pilot, dashed into its leader and the two became so firmly locked together that it was the early hours on the following morning before they were parted and reached their journey's end.' (From The Steam Agriculturalist, May 1885.) 129
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WALLIS'S Simplicity ROLLERS Following the inclusion of the picture of Wallis & Steevens Simplicity roller 8022 in our Winter 1988/89 issue, James Gilbey, owner of the prototype of the design, has kindly forwarded pictures of his engine at work and provided notes on all of the fifteen examples that were built. The single cylinder design, by Francis Wallis, was of utmost simplicity — hence the name — and considered suitable for use by native labour in the Far East. The tubular firebox placed within the inclined barrel enabled a stayless boiler, cheap in first cost and maintenance, but despite the makers declared intentions more examples stayed in Britain than were exported. The engines are listed in order of despatch from Basingstoke. The works numbers, other than the prototype, were in successive batches of five, four and five, and the different order in which they were despatched could indicate slightly different specification and difficulty in selling. • 7832 — Ordered to be built 4th November 1925; despatched 20th January 1926. Supplied to E. Parry & Co, contractors, Sefton Street, Putney, London SW. In March 1938 belonged to W. & J. Glossop, Broadway Chambers, Hammersmith, London. This was the prototype Simplicity with no provision for taking out of gear (a single gear only) and a rather crude casting combining smokebox, chimney base and mounting for front roll forks. All later rollers had much neater smokebox arrangements and could be taken out of gear. • 7937 — Ordered 18th January 1927 by Crown Agents for the Colonies, Millbank, London SW1 for Nigeria. Despatched 19th July 1927. • 7939 — Exhibited at the Public Works, Roads and Transport Exhibition at Islington, 14th-19th November 1927 and supplied 21st November to E.W. Parry, Putney. In 1951 belonged to Gill & Dudman, plant hire services, Hemel Hempstead. Now preserved in Lincolnshire. • — 7938 — Supplied 24th March 1928 to James Murdie & Co, 28 Victoria Street, London SW1. Nameplate on right side motion guard to read 'AGENTS FIRMA W.H. HILL SOERABAIA BANDOENG' (Dutch East Indies).
Two views of prototype Simplicity 7832 at work for Glossops. Date and location unknown. (collection James Gilbey)
• 7940 — Supplied 14th May 1928 to Eton Rural District Council. Later owned by N.A.C. Melhuish, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Now preserved in the West Midlands.
• 7982 — Supplied 28th August 1928 to Crown Agents for the Colonies, Millbank, London SW1. No indication of its destination.
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7832 in preservation — photographed at Stourpaine in 1984. (Roger West)
• 8019 — Supplied 10th October 1928 to Burn, Craddock & Co Ltd, Blackfriars House, New Bridge St, London EC4, for Burma. • 7980 — Despatched 17th January 1929 to Thomas C. White, contractors, Warren Road, Guildford, Surrey. In May 1939 it belonged to Mrs M.B. McCarroll in Glasgow. • 7983 — Completed 9th May 1929 and let rnrt nn hires to .Inc
Blackwater, Hampshire. In 1952 belonged to Goodey at Twyford and in 1953 to Sears of Bolney, Sussex. It had been fitted with pneumatic tyres and then went to America; subsequent fate unknown. • 7936 — Despatched 22nd March 1930. Let out on hire to J. Chaplow & Sons, Kendal, Westmorland. Owned in 1958 by C. Jennings, editor of The Motor; now preserved in Shropshire. • 7981 — Supplied 5th April 1930 to Thomas C. White, Guildford, Surrey. Now preserved in Norfolk. • 8021 — Supplied 31st October 1931 to The Governor, Colonia de Mocambique, Mandamba, Portuguese East Africa. • 8022 — Despatched 3rd February 1932. Let out on hire to F.R. Godden, rolling contractor, Cheam, Surrey. • 8023 — Despatched 16th February 1932. Let out on hire to Percy Parsons, Jeffs Road, Cheam, Surrey. Subsquently owned by Parr Head & Clements Knowling Ltd, Derwent Yard, Ealing, London W5. • 8020 — Supplied 30th March 1932 to Crown Agents for the Colonies, Millbank, London SW1 for Nigeria.
Simplicity 7940 when owned by Neville Melhuish of Chipping Norton, about 1956. (R. G. Pratt)
'Messrs Wallace & Cooper have just completed a fine sample of a traction engine lorry, and the first of its kind ever made in Timaru [New Zealand]. The lorry is a full size one, the body being 15 feet long by 7 1/2 feet wide, made from iron bark and resting on substantial stays. The springs are extra strongly built and the wheels also are very solidly put together; the tyres of the rear wheels being 8 inches wide by 1 inch in thickness and weighing 4 cwt. A screw brake is affixed to the side and works on both the rear wheels simul132
taneously, thus giving a check to any weight that the lorry may carry at any pace. The lorry is an exceptionally heavily-built one and the total weight is about 4 tons. The lorry was made to the order of Messrs Elworthy Rms., and the whole work of its construction was completed within a fortnight — a fact which does much credit to the makers.' (An interesting description of a locally built traction wagon, taken from the Timaru Herald, 13th November 1906, courtesy the South Canterbury club.)
'One of Taylors patent TRACTION ENGINES called 'Steam Elephants' built at the Britannia Works, Birkenhead, for the Dutch Government for use in the Docks at Flushing, when tested, it is said, drew a load of 14 tons 13 cwt going up and down hill, turning corners etc with ease.' (from The Guardian for 1st August 1860. The design of Taylor's engines was both unusual and distinc:live — details appear in A Century of Tractiop Engines (Hughes 1959) and The Development of the English Traction Engine (Clark 1960).)
What do you think of this ? Ted Wyatt My friend Ken Diamond and I are a couple of Hampshire hogs, born and bred on the edge of the New Forest. We are a little over the 70 mark on the gauge and unable to visit the number of rallies we did in the past, but do look forward to Steaming each quarter and then to chatting over its articles and photographs. Meeting up with Ken and his wife in Lymington recently we were browsing over old photos when Ken popped one in front of me as if it was an ace trump from a pack of cards. "What about this?" said Ken. "Cor, one of old Lance's wagons", said I, "but I don't remember one like that." We both recalled the Foden wagons that J.W. Lance used in his haulage and furniture removal business. The Hampshire Museums collection has the remains of one of his engines, showing the section of the pistons and steam passages, but this machine too was before our time. We remembered Mr Lance had a yard full of engines and lorries by the side of the Lymington River, over the railway lines down Bridge Road. It used to be one of the salterns — they stopped making salt about 1850 and many years later Mr Lance filled it with refuse from the town and raised the area well above the high tide mark. What about the wagon in Ken's picture? We became very curious, never having seen one of that type. In a book titled The River is Within Us, we found that Tom Morris recalled he knew Mr Lance, and his son Lennard said they were the second firm to own a steam wagon in our area of the south — Bournemouth Gas Works had bought one just before them, called a St Pancras, after the place it was made at in London. From here we looked up Ronald Clark's Development of the English Steam Wagon, where details of the make were duly revealed to us. We had always thought St Pancras was just a railway station up London way, but now we know the area had something to do with steam. So we thought you would like to share the photograph with us.
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The St Pancras steam wagon owned by J.W. Lance of Lymington and Bournemouth. It is probably engaged on contract haulage for the Bournemouth Gas Company, for that firm's board is roped to the coke filled bags, advertising 'Gas Coke, direct from the Gas Works'. On the wall a price list of the day for coke indicates the scene as taken at the gasworks and Mr Lance is sitting in the driver's seat, regulator valve under his hand, and what is probably the usual driver standing with oil-can ready. Alan Duke's lists reveal the wagon, registered LC3559, was new in January 1906 and lasted until 1939 before it was scrapped.
'I trust you will let me have the new wagon I have ordered as soon as you can. My last wagon has been so good, that I know it has been the means of other orders coming to your works. I have had it 14 months, and it has run 14,000 miles — always with a trailer, with a load of 9 to 10 tons altogether, and on a hilly route. I myself would not think of getting any other make, in spite of the little difficulty in getting delivery. The turning point of my business was when I sold my old wagon which was a — and got your F type wagon. I have been told that the extension in your works will soon make a difference in delivery.' (A letter received by Leylands from F. Wearing of 8 Grimshaw Street, Darwen in late January 1911, and reproduced a couple of weeks afterwards in
Commercial Motor. Wearing's 'old wagon' was Coulthard 431 of 1906, which he sold in 1909. The identity of his first F type Leyland is not known, nor the one he was so anxious to obtain delivery of in 1911, but he later took Leyland F29 in about 1914 — surely this was a third example and not the end of a three year wait?)
'For hire or sale, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 15 tons Steam Road Rollers, compounds and singles, with Morrison Scarifiers attached or without and Thackeray's Portable Scarifiers and Water Carts; Living Vans, with or without drivers. — W.W. Buncombe, Highbridge, Somerset. Telephone 12 Highbridge. Telegrams Buncombe, Highbridge.' (from Roads and Road Construction, November 1923.) 133
McLARENS in NEW ZEALAND Derek Hattam The Shurt article in the 1989 issue, 'A McLaren starts work' made interesting reading. It is a pity more engines were not similarly recorded. In answer to the question concerning Mr McLaren, a few notes may be of interest to readers at home and in New Zealand. Mr W.A. McLaren was a younger brother of John and Henry McLaren (who established their traction engine building business at the Midland Engine Works, Leeds in 1876 1 and went to New Zealand about 1886 to pioneer farming, opening up an agency for the sale of McLaren traction engines, ploughing engines etc. Later he went to South Africa as a civilian engineer in the Boer War, where he broke a leg. He was sent home, but having been struck with the agricultural possibilities of South Africa, returned after the cessation of hostilities to assist in the expansion of agriculture by also opening up an agency there.
However, whilst in New Zealand, W.A. was visited by his brother Henry, who, while there in i 890, traveiieci on McLaren tractions engaged in up country work on what were often simply or entirely unmade roads. There can be no doubt that much of the sound and original engineering which produced the reliability and ruggedness built into the robust McLaren engines stemmed from those experiences in New Zealand, which were fed back to the works by him and W.A. McLaren. In all, about 14% of the firm's total production went to New Zealand. Writing in 1904, John McLaren stated 'probably the greatest success we (J & H McLaren, Leeds) have had in the traction engine business has been the pioneering of wool carting in the Colonies.' The New Zealand settlers were not restricted by the same speed limits of 2 and 4 mph as were owners of engines sold on the home market. Consequently, in spite of the primitive or non-existent roads leading over the prairies to the up country homesteads
McLaren 'Compound Heavy Haulage Engine' as illustrated in the makers' catalogue — the New Zealand engine 503 would have had a similar appearance. (collection Derek Hattaml 134
or stations, comparatively fast average speeds were achieved in New Zealand. For instance, McLarens state under just one of many illustrations in their trade literature how an engine 'left Christchurch on Friday evening about 7pm; camped for the night at Kirwee (25 miles out) at midnight; went forward to Dalethorpe (45 miles from town) next morning, loaded both wagons and was back in Christchurch late the same evening -- 90 miles round trip from 7 pm Friday evening to late Saturday evening!' John McLaren also stated how 'owners of traction engines in tnis country lbnglandl have very little idea of how much work can be got out of their plant by capable and intelligent management.' According to H. McLaren, in New Zealand engines were driven just aboul anywhere with the regulator wide open, even when a third speed was fitted. This allowed maximum power to be developed, the speeds being changed to suit the various inclines; the 'driver drives changing into a quicker speed instead of closing the regulator or notching up the reversing lever.' Agricultural engines were also expected to work just as hard in the production of corn. In 1904 J. McLaren recorded '...the amount of corn knocked out by a single machine in one day is enough to make an English thresher man stare. Three thousand bushels (180,000Ibs wheat) for a day's work is quite a common occurrence... this is about four times as much as the biggest day's work I have ever heard of in England.' For work such as this, McLaren engines had to be carefully thought out, simple but well designed, amply boilered and easy to get at for maintenance, in order to stand up well to the rough work. They also had to be kept in first class running order because they 'were worked without mercy'. In such an environment a first class product must inevitably evolve and it was not long before J. & H. McLaren introduced its heavy hauling engines which were such a success for the firm. The first one of all was actually introduced in New Zealand in 1891 (number 427) and at least four of these fine engines ale preserved there (771, 772, 955 and 9571, although they are of later date. Returning to the engine in the article that started work in December 1893, it is unfortunate that most of the works records have not been preserved. However, due to the timely efforts of Alan Duke, long time Engine Records Officer of the Road Locomotive Society, it is possible to deduce that the engine in question corresponds to number 503 — this is
stack base. The hind wheels were probably 6ft 6in diameter by 18in wide. We cannot be sure as to whether it was a three shaft design or four shaft, but two 8hp engines preserved in New Zealand of very close vintage are fitted with three shafts. Unfortunately no similar engines are preserved in Great Britain. I acknowledge the following sources of information in preparing the above notes — Steam on Common Roads, paper by J. McLaren 1890; McLaren's Traction Engines, J. McLaren 1904; English and American Steam Carriages and Traction Engines, Fletcher 1904; McLaren catalogues; Road Locomotive Society records.
McLaren 771 of 1903, of 10 or 12hp, is preserved in New Zealand by K. & E. Simpson of Invercargill. The engine has rack steering, a feature quite common on McLarens sent abroad, and first introduced in 1886 on machines for use in the French A/ps to help cope with the rocks or stones that frequently rolled onto the roads. (collection A.V.K. Thomas)
based on the assumption that the rated horsepower as stated in the press report is correct. 503 left the works in September 1893; after allowing for shipment ctc, it would have arrived in New Zealand by about the end of November. It was classed as a traction engine of 8hp with compound cylinders, and despatched to the New Zealand agency of Mr W.A. McLaren. The detail books of the firm have not survived, but from the newspaper report it seems most likely that the engine was built to the basic design introduced about 1893. From a study
of contemporary catalogues and various journals, it seems reasonable to assume the following details. The cylinders were probably 6%in and 10% in x 12in with a working pressure of 1601bs. The boiler was fitted with a steel firebox and the flywheel was of the spoked variety. A belly tank was fitted and a low coal guard rail slightly increased the capacity of the coal bunker. The brake acted on a flange outside the main spur of the differential, so retarding both wheels. A simple plain flat rim topped the chimney stack and a very large lamp was probably mounted in front of the
An illustration, from McLarens' 1909 catalogue, of the engine that did a 90 mile round trip in about 24 hours, as mentioned in the text. (collection Welland Valley club)
'To Contractors, Large Landed and Threshing Machine Proprietors. The undersigned are now booking orders for J. Fowler and Co's, Steam Plough Works, Leeds, Agricultural Traction Engines for Next Season. They especially direct attention to Fowler's Patent Compound Agricultural Traction Engine, High and Low Pressure Cylinders. The Pressure of the Exhaust Steam being only 81bs, the consumption of fuel and water is 30 per cent less than ordinary engines. For instance, say an ordinary engine consumes 6cwt Coal for a day's work, a Compound Engine will only require 4cwt; and with the same quantity of water to start with, the Compound Engine will travel at least One-Third Greater Distance than the Ordinary High-pressure Engine. Catalogue Prices, and all Particulars on application. Robt. Wilkin & Co., Timaru and Christchurch.' (from the Timaru Herald, 27th March 1883; an example of how a New Zealand agent advertised for business. The next season, of course, would have been in February and March 1884 and it would have, no doubt, taken much of the ensuing year to make decisions, place orders and to then get the engines built, tested, dismantled, packed, shipped and re-erected.) 'Tasker's Order — Amongst recent orders received by W. Tasker & Son Ltd, Andover, Hants are repeat orders from Ellon District Committee•of the Aberdeen County Council for one 'Little Giant' patent chain drive tractor and side tipping trailers, and from the Ayr District Committee of the Ayr County Council, also for a 'Little Giant' tractor. ( From Roads and Roads Construction, June 1923.) 135
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Ken Judkins kindly sends several mystery photographs for use in the magazine and we hope readers will be able to make further comments to appear in future issues. The first shows a McLaren compound road engine, the picture being taken in 1921 at Honister quarries near Keswick in Cumberland. The crew seem to be accompanied by quarry workers and managers (and the dogl, and are perhaps preparing to leave with a loaded traction wagon of slate or stone. The quarries are said to have been owned at the time by the Buttermere Green Slate Co of Keswick and although that firm ran a Foden 6 ton wagon, Alan Duke has nothing earlier recorded for them. The two McLaren compounds that are listed for Cumberland have no obvious connection with Buttermere or Honister, so perhaps the engine was a visitor, on a journey from further afield to collect slate or stone. If the picture does date from 1921, the engine should have a registration number but the chap in front of the smokebox has spoilt that clue for us!
The picture of the Foden 5 ton wagon is a professional one by E.G. Warren of Redhill, Surrey and proves to be a scene taken at the building of Netherne Asylum near Coulsdon, Surrey. The wagon's side sheets declare the title of John Bowen & Sons of Birmingham and they must have had a considerable contract at Netherne for they ran some five Fodens there, several trailers and a roller. Warren's portrait shows the crew in still life beside Foden 862 (M709), a wagon new in February 1905. It was the second of the five that Bowen purchased that year and probably dates the picture to 1905, because the vehicle looks new and in any case was replaced on the contract by the end of 1905 by Foden 1005
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(M981) and then sold to the Eastern Motor Wagon Co in east London. The picture shows the typical working conditions of many a steam. wagon in the early years of the century with the driver keeping a splendidly clean machine, but inevitably leaving the wheels and axles to become caked with mud — in this case probably chalk dust. Note the boxes in the body of the wagon and the narrow gauge railway lines in the foreground. Foden's steam wagon catalogue of about 1912 features another picture of the Netherne Asylum works and provides a testimonial paragraph which gives further information on how the Fodens were employed. Bowens, described as builders, wrote: 'We are very pleased with the Steam
Wagons supplied by you and working in connection with the building of the Netherne Asylum, hauling materials of all description from the station with trailers. They do the work exceptionally well and are very reliable, we often have to work them 16 hours per day when there is a large amount of material at station. We enclose you a photograph taken at our depot where the loads are craned off, showing the material as carried in skips or boxes ready for dropping on rail.' The wagons illustrated are Foden 860 of 1905 (M694) in the forearound. 890 of 1905 (M761) next and, nearest the steam crane, Foden 862 again. The work for the wagons must have decreased as the contract progressed and the fleet was sold off periodically until by the time the remaining plant was auctioned in April 1908 only 1005 remained of the Fodens, and this stayed locally, being sold to Godstone Brick & Tile Co. Thanks are due to Alan Duke for information from his lists. yrj
'William Reynolds was fined £2 after being found guilty at Bromsgrove Petty Sessions of using a locomotive without a licence. PC Emms said he saw the locomotive hauling four trucks in Market Street before making its way to the fairground.' (from the 100 Years Ago column of the Bromsgrove Advertiser, recalling the events of 27th July 1889. It might cross our minds as to whether Reynolds was deliberately trying to gain attention, for the locomotive concerned, which by its bulk could hardly hove foiled to attract the notice
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of any passing Constable, was one of those amazing traction centre engines built by Fowler (Savages also produced similar machines). The engine apprehended in 1889, Fowler 4765, was a Class A compound traction centre new in May 1886 to Reynolds & King, a partnership said to have been based in Kent. According to Michael Lane's History of the Steam Plough Works it was only the second such cumbersome machine to be built at Leeds and was presumably entering Bromsgrove drawing the rest of the ride in some of its twas. Alen Duke
records that Reynolds & King applied for a locomotive licence to the Worcestershire C.C. in 1891; it was William Reynolds who later set up the Bedford firm of William Reynolds, operators of steam ploughs, and traction engine dealers.) 'Tenders have been accepted by Grimsby Town Council ... Messrs Aveling & Porter Ltd for the supply of front wheels for a road roller at £59 per pair, and rear wheels at £70 per pair.' (from Roads and Road Construction, October 1924.)
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Lighting by Fowler One hundred years of electric street lighting in Australia
The restored Tamworth Municipal Electric Showroom and the recreated power plant to the left, illuminating the scene via a Crompton 3000 candle power arc light and carbon filament lamps in the old gas lanterns.
The compound Fowler undertype engine on arrival at the workshops prior to restoration. The boiler in the background is the New South Wales PWD example being restored to working order. 138
Tamworth, in New South Wales, Australia, will not be a town known of by the majority of readers of this magazine. However, it has a claim to fame, being, in November 1888, the first Municipality in Australia to light its streets with electricity. Sydney did not follow until 1904, and it is interesting to ponder that Tamworth's accomplishment occurred but one hundred years after the first European settlement in Australia; a mere 47 years after the community was started on the Peel River with two slab huts, and less then ten years following the demonstration of the first incandescent lamp in England. The electric lighting came about because of the Borough Council's dissatisfaction with charges by the local gas company for lighting. Tenders were called for contractors to submit their specification for the plant, and early in 1888 George Harrison and Alfred Whiffen of Sydney, representing Crompton & Co of Chelmsford, England, signed a contract. The plant consisted of two Fowler cross compound semi-portable undertype steam engines of 12hp, developing 46 indicated horse power at 150 rpm, each driving by a flat leather belt one of Cromptons' patent No 15 dynamo machines working at 740 rpm. The outfit was capable of lighting 250 twenty candle power Swan incandescent lamps. The engines were Fowler numbers 5718 and 5719, shipped ex works Leeds on 16th June 1888. At 8pm on the evening of Friday 8th November, the Mayoress of Tamworth, Mrs Elizabeth Piper unlocked the switch with a golden key and 13 'Y2 miles of the town's streets were illuminated by electricity. From those humble beginnings the Tamworth Municipal Council's undertaking grew to supply large portions of north west New South Wales, up to and even across the Queensland border. During 1986 the Peel-Cunningham County Council, successors to the Tamworth pioneers, began making preparations for celebrating the centenary of electric streetlighting in Australia. The original plant had long since gone but the site of the 1888 power station was re-acquired and the exact position of the steam engines identified, enabling the buildings to be recreated as a museum. The late David Phillips of the
Museum of English Rural Life at Reading University was able to identify the original engines from the Fowler records; this gave the researchers an idea of what to look for. Most of Fowler's semi-portable undertypes were exported, about half to Australia. A search of the five eastern states remained unrewarding until late 1987 when, almost simultaneously, two were discovered — Fowler 7846 and 7586, the latter with Stephenson reversing link motion. Neither had a boiler with them by then and both were 16hp, the next size larger than the original Tamworth engines, but they would be quite suitable for the recreation in the circumstances. They were both acquired and, seperately, a sound fire tube boiler of 1924 New South Wales Public Works Department manufacture. Later, a Fowler 12hp boiler and firebox shell was recovered from a northern NSW creek, adjacent to an old sawmill. The engines were restored in the Council's workshops and the boilers fitted over them after the Fowler style. The genuine Leeds built boiler was considered beyond economical repair and steam to run the No 2 engine is therefore supplied from the No 1 boiler. Two replica dynamos had to be completely manufactured from all old sketch illustration of Cromptons. However, the two engines and dynamos, the rebuilt engine house, and the refurbishment of the old 1907 showroom building into a museum displaying old electrical appliances, lamps, switches, light fittings, etc, was completed and operational for the re-enactment of the switching-on of the streetlights on 9th Nnvemher 1988. The Museum is now open daily and no charge is made for admission. The engines are fired up to run on one or two days each month and by mid 1989 about 6,000 visitors had inspected the museum. From all the Council's enquiries so far with the steam preservation societies in Australia, it would appear that they may have the only Fowler compound undertype engines in Australia, and it is possible that they are the only semi-portable undertypes made by John Fowler & Co to be found in operation anywhere. Can any reader say otherwise? These notes have been compiled from information kindly supplied by Ron Greer, Assistant General Manager to Peel-Cunningham County Council at Tamworth. All photographs courtesy Peel-Cunningham County Council.
Fowler undertype engine and No 1 PWD boiler as restored to working order.
No. 2 Fowler boiler and engine with reproduction Crompton dynamo. This boiler is not steamable, the engine being run with steam from the No 1 boiler.
'Change of name. The Oxford Steam Plough Co Ltd, Cowley, Oxford, announce that their business having developed in so many directions they find the name ... which the firm has held for 55 years is somewhat misleading to prospective customers. They have therefore decided that on and after January 1st 1924 the name ... shall be John Allen & Sons (Oxford) Ltd ... The firm's present activities consist of general engineering and
boiler making. They specialise in particular in repairs to road rollers, tractions and steam wagons. They are patentees and sole manufacturers of the Allen scarifier and are pioneers of steel plating steam roller wheels. Their outside depots are concerned in a large way with the hiring out of road rolling and hauling plant as well as steam plough tackle etc ...' (from Roads and Road Construction, January 1924.) 139
Steaming Around Compiled from members notes and reports by Derek Rayner
Incidents on the road or on the rally field can sometimes have their funny side — others are more serious. If a flywheel should fall off, it could be extremely dangerous, for a fast spinning heavy disc carries a large amount of inertia and this has to be dissipated. An item such as this can become a lethal weapon, as well as rendering the engine from which it has become detached almost undriveable. If a driving belt breaks (or merely runs off the pulley) or a wire ploughing rope snaps — the flailing ends of the affected article become lethal for spectactors, easily capable of maiming. However, if, as is reported in this issue, an engine's chimney falls off, it is perhaps not so serious (depending on whether one was
standing beneath it or not) and it could even be considered amusing. Certainly an engine's progress would be severely limited due to lack of control of draught, but it would not be an insurmountable obstacle. An analysis of the cause of these potential failures suggests metal fatigue, corrosion and worn or cracked components would be the main reason. Do we, as engine owners, do enough inspection of the mechanical components of our charges to prevent such things happening? Boiler inspections are, or should be, rigorously carried out at periods not greater than 14 months; loose lifting tackle in factories has to be inspected regularly under the Factories Act regulations or modern day equivalent.
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Two engines have been purchased by Kelston Sparkes from Martin Saunders of Berkshire. These are Burrell showmans 2072 of 1898 (AD8785) THE MASTERPIECE and Foden tractor 10694 of 1923 (PC 9928). Kelston's son Alan owns Fowler road loco 8721 of 1900 (ex Australia) which is currently under restoration. Noted as being for sale within the county is Marshall vertical boilered roller 87125 of 1933 (VG5715) belonging to Andrew Melrose and believed to be now unique. This tandem machine has only recently had its restoration completed and has been rallied for just a couple of seasons. Also on offer was another unique engine, at least to these shores: an American built Russell single cylinder traction of 1921, priced at £25,000.
Ted Wootton's 1918 BB1 Fowler ploughing engine 15209 (AJ6406), which has had boiler repairs carried out by Bill Hedges in Chatham, is now completely restored and ready for work. An engine from this area also at Chatham is Derek Wheeler's Shand Mason 1876 fire pump, in need of a new firebox. A Garrett tractor which at one time worked for the Fensom family and has never been restored, being in a derelict and well worn condition when bought by the Saunders family several years ago, is now being restored. It is 4CD tractor 32682 of 1915 (NM179). Maskells did the boiler work last year, a tender has been made and fitted, new piston and valve rods manufactured, and a new trunk guide has been cast and machined. Other items have been fitted including the machined
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The latter equipment comprises chain, links and shackles — just the sort of things from which engine steering chains are made up. But when was the last time your steering chains were inspected by a competent person, and have they ever been tested? Food for thought in a world where steel and iron continue to deteriorate by rusting or wearing, accelerated in our circumstances by acidic gases of combustion up the chimney or lack of lubrication on wearing surfaces on steering chains and the like. I am grateful for information received for this issue from the following. More reports are always welcome; it surely only takes a short time to jot down some notes of your local happenings. Banbury Steam Society, Hollycombe Steam Collection, Lancashire TEC, Leeds & District TEC, Road Roller Association, Scottish TES, Somerset TEC, Southern Counties HVPT, Steam Plough Club, Thames Valley TEC, West of England SES and Brian Allison, Bill Bird, Reg Bosely, Simon Caudwell, George Coles, Martin Fletcher, Pal Freeman, Martin (Mallows,
Peter Haywood, Clive Holliday, John Paul, John Reeves, Chris Rhodes, Sandy Ross, Lyndon Shearman, Alan Thomas, Michael
Watts and Reg Wells. Press date for the next issue is the _last day of July. Information, news
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pump gears which have been refurbished. Some of the spares necessary for the restoration came from Terry Young in Essex, himself the owner of a 4CD. Unfortunately the Saunders family's six wheel Foden tractor 13008 of 1928 (S59191) was unable to attend a small gathering in early March at the Samuel Whitbread School hobby show at Clifton because of frost damage to the pump and pipework. At this event were Saunders' 1925 Burrell showmans 4000 EX MAYOR and Fowler roller 17560 of 1929 (TM4782), and Marshall compound engine 36258 of 1902 (FU92) belonging to Michael Watts.
BERKSHIRE Mick Smith has purchased Fowler BB1 ploughing engine 15164 of 1918 (WR7185) from Phil Dickens of
Northamptonshire. The engine has not been steamed for many years and requires a deal of attention before it can he put to work again. It has never been shown at a preservation event. The engine is the second of the pair reported in the last issue 15164/ 15165, the latter being mentioned in the last issue as having made the sea crossing to the Isle of Man. Mick has subsequently advertised his 1929 Aveling roller 12442 (MY102) for sale.
CHESHIRE An engine to move out of tne area and on which restoration is now underway is George Lea's 1891 Fowler traction 6376 (J6235). It is now in the Devon area in the custody of Gerry Stoneman. George has been a regular at local and further afield rallies over the last thirty years or so with his Foden tractor 13222 of 1928 (FK 3925) but unfortunately, with advancing age, he feels that rallying it is a bit much for him and the Foden may have to stay at home for the time being. Richard Metcalfe has been busy
with the retubing of Fowler ploughing engine 15139 of 1918 (HR3399) and hoped to have it at the Lancashire club's May Day Steam event at Flixton. Peter Walton's 1903 Aveling roller 5199 (NX369) has had its steam test following the fitting of a new front tube plate. It now requires plating work carried out on the tender to enable the engine to be rallied in a presentable condition this summer. To end on a sad note, we have to record the death of Billy Fitter of Appleton who was tragically killed in an accident at work. Billy was the driver of the family's 1910 Foden traction 2312 (MA7770).
CORNWALL There are some noteable engine ownership changes to record for this issue, one concerning Robey tractor 41493 of 1924 (MF3946), which has been preserved in the area almost since the formation of the West of England society. It has been sold by Derek Hattam to Dave Parker in Hampshire. Tom Crago has sold Fowler traction 11594 of 1908
Burrell 3159 of 1909 THE GLADIATOR on its first outing in May after the fitting of a new firebox, boiler barrel and front tubeplate, tender and various bearings. The engine will be better known to many readers in its form as a showmans road loco, being a familiar sight, with The Gladiator Club's fair organ, on West Country rally fields in the 1960s and 1970s. The engine will hopefully be out and about in Cornwall this season, appearing in road loco form pending the completion of its restoration. (J.B. Tremain)
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Alex Reid, 6 Highcroft Villas, Brighton BN1 5PS (EW233b) to Don and Steven Wing in Northants, but, coincidentally, their former charge, Burrell roller 4041 of 1926 (U0 /93) had come to Cornwall and the ownership of Steve Buscombe only a few months previously. The third change to report is the departure of 1937 Fowler roller 22596 (EJ5535), whose owners, Haydn and Joy Davies, are moving house to the Cardiff area, and so the roller — the last Fowler steam road vehicle built fur the home market — has also regrettably left the Duchy. On the restoration front, Paul Wills has retubed his Aveling roller 11216 of 1925 ITT4018) and Dave Goodwin has had the boiler of Burrell showmans 3159 THE GLADIATOR successfully trial steamed. Mark and Steve Syms have refitted the smokebox, perch bracket and crankshaft to their Burrell traction 3816 of 1919 (AF3518). John Boyling has now completely dismantled Fowler K7 1918 ploughing engine 14695 (MA5129) for boiler repairs and has decided to fit a complete new barrel as well as replacing the firebox. Rex Curtis is progressing well with 1915 Marshall traction 69303 (NM340). Only the pipework and small fittings remain to be put back in place and the final paintwork is well under way. Another Marshall receiving attention is John Sawle's 1913 traction 62121 (TA3624). A new piston is being made and the engine is being relagged and the cladding repainted. Raymond Hoskin has removed the canopy from his recently acquired Aveling roller 11448 of 1926 (NP7791) and is having some welding carried out in the firebox, following which she will be out and about during the coming season. Lastly, David 141
Solomon has completely dismantled his 1919 Clayton traction 48279 (TA4561) and removed the old firebox in readiness for replacement. Some engines have been at work and following the bad storms early in the year, Dick Wood had his Burrell showmans 2651 of 1904 (AY9840) CHALLENGER busy winching out fallen trees which had succumbed to the high winds. David Cowling has been using his Aveling roller 11969 of 1927 (VB1107) to roll hardcore on a private drive.
DERBYSHIRE Aveling roller 2957 of 1892 (MA9867) referred to in the Winter 1989/90 issue, is now located at the Midland Railway Centre, Butterley where she is completely stripped for the fitting of a new firebox. The roller is owned by the Derby Industrial Museum. At an auction held at Willington, Derby in early May, two Fowler rollers owned by Alf Baker were offered to prospective buyers: compound 10 tonner 16523 of 1925 (EL1228), which came back from Portugal some years ago, and 12 ton single 17481 of 1929 (YC7438).
DEVON Gerry Stoneman's engineering works is turning into a steam centre, as more engines arrive to be kept there. Gerry's own collection includes Aveling showmans conversion 8432 of 1914 (NM244), an immaculate Stanley steam car newly brought over from America on no less a ship than the QE2 and Foden wagon 12388 of 1926 (TU3113), purchased at the King's sale. The wagon is well on the way to completion, having had new firebox, barrel, tubeplate etc and a full overhaul of top works, axles, together with a new cab and tipping body. Gerry has fitted new solid rubbers and now only the reconditioned motion remains to be fitted along with a new full set of gearing. Work is also in hand on Ian Bray's Robey Express tractor 43388 of 1929 (VL983), bought recently at D. Plant's sale. The boiler is to be retubed and prepared for hydraulic test. Gerry has also started stripping down 8hp single Fowler traction 6376 of 1891 (J6235) which Ian has recently purchased from George Lea in Cheshire. The engine is to have a new tender and extensive boiler work, and should make a handsome machine when work is finished. Ian Bray already owns Garrett tractor 34789 of 1926 (YB7841) and recently purchased Fowler showmans 9381 of 1902 (WR6770) LADY BETTY. All are 142
Contrasts in steam wagon design at Tom Varley's open day at Gisburn, Lancashire in October 1989. One of the earlier applications of steam power to a load carrying vehicle (top) is this 1896 Thornycroft steam van, an exhibit at the British Commercial Vehicle Museum at Leyland. Fosters of Lincoln joined in the steam wagon market in 1919, but without much commercial success (only 60 odd were built) — number 14470 of 1921 was retrieved from Australia some years ago by Tom Varley and is seen here (bottom) following an extensive reconstruction.
now housed at Gerry's premises. Simon Caudwell has finished the boiler reboxing work on his Fowler traction 15710 of 1922 (M0780) with the help of Lou Lewis, since Cyril Finch, who was helping, has been out of action following an accident. Cyril was jacking out the firebox from his engine, 1923 Fowler conversion 16044 (AF7718), when the jack slipped and hit him on the head,
putting him in hospital with a fractured skull. We are pleased to note Cyril has made a full recovery; his jokes are just as terrible, so his friends judge he must be better! Rather belatedly, the sad death of George Moore has to be reported. George was a blacksmith and involved in steam preservation from quite early on at his home at Aylesbeare. He was best known for his restoration of 1903
Fowler traction 9698 (HR4732) and consequently driving the engine, with showmans living van in tow, all the way from Devon to an Appleford rally. George was a friendly, kind man and always happy to help others interested in steam; he will be sadly missed by the local steam fraternity.
DURHAM John Bainbridge, owner of Fowler roller 16008 of 1923 (SG8149), has purchased another Fowler — A4 traction 9279 of 1902 (SY1125) — from Freddie Greenwell. Other engines ownea oy i-readie are 1:JU9 Marshall agricultural 51483 (NL1296) and Wallis traction 7013 of 1908 (PY668).
ESSEX Mai ie and Terry Swann have recently become owners of Ransomes traction 42013 of 1931 ITL18741, bought from Fred Hollis on the Isle of Wight. It has belonged to Fred for about 25 years. Next year it is intended to retube the engine and also fit a new smokebox door prior to a repainting exercise which will see the machine restored to original livery. The Swanns have also acquired a trailer in which is fitted an original Wallis & Steevens water carrier. Earlier this year, Aubrey Titmarsh and his son Francis bought Dave Stacey's 1914 Clayton & Shuttle worth traction 46823 (KE4173) DUSTY. The engine requires a patch in the firebox and some building up, by weld, on the tubeplate. Francis also owns Fowler roller 15813 of 1921 (WR8965) previously with Steve Parrott in Berkshire. Both of these engines are kept at the Barleylands premises at Billericay, along with three of Edna Driscoll's machines — Marshall convertible roller 65650 of
Foden bhp compound road loco 4752 of 1914 at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, 1989. (Jaap van Pelt)
1914 (BE2227); 1921 Aveling tractor 9382 (AP9437) and Ransomes portable 42019 of 1931. All three engines have been in Edna's family for over twenty years. Les Smith received a Gold Medal at the Model Engineering Exhibition in January for the replica of his Aveling & Porter tractor 7898 of 1913 (D7078) — he has subsequently offered the full size engine for sale. Les also is the owner of a living van which was fleet number 21 of W.G. Smoothey of Rochford; the van was made by Marshalls, their serial number 102. Our last issue reported the find of some ploughing engine bits buried in a yard in Essex. We now hear that these
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE Allchin 7hp single traction 1546 of 1912 (AP9079) was offered for sale by J. Williams; the new owner is Allen Eaton of Northamptonshire,
HERTFORDSHIRE Winner of this year's Transport World Challenge Cup for the London to Brighton commercial vehicle run, organised by the HCVS, was John Crawley's 1926 Foden wagon 12364
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(1-W4207), in the care of Albert Fensom. Other Hertfordshire based wagons on the run were Stuart Gray's Sentinel Super 6327 of 1925 (NE4770), finished in Tate & Lyle livery and provided with a simulated load of sugar boxes, and McMullens Brewery's DG4 8694 of 1932 (YG746), this one complete with a load of beer barrels. Another wagon in the news is John Crawley's Sentinel Super 5407 of 1924 (FA1803) which for some time has been based at Fensom's yard in unsteamable condition, both inner and outer fireboxes being in need of replacement. This work hs now been carried out by C.H. Thomson of Oldham and the new boiler has been united with the chassis pending final assembly and reconditioning of the wagon. Also at Fensom's yard, the rebuilt boiler for David Philpott's Clayton & Shuttleworth traction 48154 of 1918 INM1161) has been returned from Bicknell's at Liphook following replacement of the firebox and boiler barrel. David is currently rebuilding the tender elsewhere, and reassembly has not yet started. Meanwhile, David's 10 ton 1917 Aveling roller 8837 (N01221) remained unsold at the time of writing these notes. Another boiler returned from Liphook is that for Peter Cole's 7hp Ruston & Hornsby traction 122300 of 1924 (CJ7207), now rebuilt with new firebox, barrel and tubeplate.
The Vickery family's Wallis & Steevens roller 2357 of 1896 (formerly with the maker's patent expansion gear), is back in action again following replacement of the rear axle; this unfortunately broke while the engine was being loaded after last year's Roxton rally. Sandy and David Ross's 4 ton Aveling roller 7385 (FC4016) has been retubed during the winter and was to be hydraulic tested prior to the start of the season. Working on this 1911 roller, using a set of tube expanders in a firebox only 13" wide, is not readily recommended!
ISLE OF MAN Fowler BB1 ploughing engine 15165 of 1918 (WR7180) lately reported in these pages as being acquired by Steve Carter and shipped to the island has recently been offered for sale.
KENT A trio of engines braved mid winter weather, and in a somewhat milder than normal spell went on a run to the local pub and back on Boxing Day. Engines from Bill Best's collection, which made the journey to the Sun Inn near Sittingbourne, were Garrett traction 33442 of 1919 (BL9009), 1902 Aveling overhead slide valve compound roller 5156 (TU874), and Ruston & Hornsby roller 115023 of 1922 (XM6373) an engine which has not often been seen in public of late.
Aveling E type 10 ton roller 10596 of 1923 heads the single file of traffic over the ancient river bridge spanning the River Ouse at Great Barford, Bedfordshire. (John Maund)
An engine under restoration in Bill Hedges' workshops at Chatham Dockyard and owned by Gerry Doherty of Co Louth, Eire, is a Ruston & Hornsby showmans tractor. It has had a considerable amount of time spent on its restoration to full showmans specification — at one time the engine worked for Tofts Amusements in Ireland and it therefore has a genuine showland history. Some doubt has been expressed over the works number of the engine — indeed it is not listed in Traction Engine Register because of this — but it is understood that during the rebuild of the engine, identifying numbers have been found and it has now been authenticated by Alan Duke as 52656 of 1919 (Y12853) RUSTY. Other engines noted at Chatham recently were Aveling roller 10662 of 1924 (FX9743), owned by Jim Gratton, an engine having extensive work carried out on it, and Aveling roller 10269 of 1922 (PC9203), owned by D. Wallis. Another Rochester product also receiving attention is single cylinder engine 9449 of 1921 — no registration number in this instance though, for it is one of Aveling's distinctive industrial railway locomotives, large driving wheels at the rear, and having very much the outline of traction engine practice.
LANCASHIRE After the usual inactivity at the start of the winter, George Coles has been catching up on some routine jobs on his 1913 Clayton traction 46059 (CE7943). The top half of the tender has been cleaned and shot blasted and
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the sides of the tender have been patched by a combination of doubling plates and fibreglass. The blast pipe has been removed to renew part of it which was badly cracked and almost corroded through, although what form of repair was to be used to make it useable once more is presently undecided. Another machine in bits for overhaul is Hugh Winterbottom's Sentinel S4 9086 of 1934 (SE4013) which has been stripped for a twoyear major overhaul. During this long lay off Hugh had hoped to run his 1930 Aveling roller 14073 (FV1326) After a 20 year restoration job — but this may not be the case. Work on the rear wheels, which are at Fred Dibnah's to be retyred, has not yet been completed, although the boiler and motion work is finished. In the north of the county, Mike Armer has his Marshall conversion 76831 of 1923 (SW1404) completely stripped for fitting a new firebox. Mike suffered an embarrassing inconvenience when he was travelling with his 1906 Aveling roller 5636 (CWB285) to the opening of the new Fylde countryside museum. The chimney decided to part company with the rest of the machine and fell into the road, being partly squashed by the roller. The remainder of the journey was completed with the remains pushed into the base and jammed in position with a piece of wood.
LEICESTERSHIRE The old year was seen out by a group of enthusiasts who took their engines on a road run from Ted Sansome's yard to Claybrook Magna where, suitably refreshed at the Bulls Head public house, the entourage headed back to drain off for the rest of
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Mr ✓.F. Williams of Dunstahle kindly sends this picture postcard of a pair of Ruston Proctor 'Lincoln Imp' tractors hauling what was clearly a load worthy of photographic record. The engines were owned by H. Corps & Son, contractors, of Hanthorpe, near Bourne, Lincolnshire and that title appears on the canopy of the leading engine and on a board propped on the belly tank of the second. For the benefit of Bourne photographer Ashby Swift's record of the occasion the tree butt has a chalked inscription 'King Tree of Stanfield, Bourne' — it appears to be about 6 feet in diameter and 25ft in length. The location is unrecorded but presumably somewhere on the cavalcade's journey through the above-mentioned villages. The engines are both part of a WD order to makers Ruston Proctor for one hundred of the 4hp, four shaft SCD class tractors. As registration numbers cannot be gleaned from the photo it is not possible to say which engine is which, but one is Ruston 52125, the first of the WD order, sent out in April 1918. This engine was transferred to the Board of Trade Timber Supplies Department the following year and used in Nottinghamshire; it then passed to a sawmill in Leicestershire ond, continuing its association with timber, later went to Corps, being first registered for him in December 1922 and given the new mark CT5553. The next number CT5554 was allotted to Ruston 52329 which had been turned out from Lincoln three months after 52125 in July 1918. This engine, remarkably, kept company with earlier one through exactly the same ownerships as outlined above. However, Corps' endeavours with the duo probably only lasted two or three years, for 52125 was last registered by him in 1924 with no subsequent owner known. 52329 later had three further owners in north-east Leicestershire before being acquired for preservation in the 1950s by George Dixon of Melton Mowbray. It was immaculately restored by Jack Stubbs in the early 1970s, before leaving the relatively small area of the country in which it had been through eight ownerships, and for more than 65 years, for the Southampton area. Thanks are due to Alan Duke for providing the historical information, which dates the scene to the 1923 to 1925 period.
the winter months. Those taking part included Dave Maddock's 1914 Aveling roller 8361 (PC9151), Mick Sansome's 1923 Marshall roller 76913 (PU804) and the Sansome family's 1911 Fowler traction 12761 (397TRO). Wallis & Steevens Advance roller 7784 of 1923 (XP2338) belonging to Barry Johnson will be sporting a new chimney for the forthcoming season, and the canopy side boards are being
re-lettered on this smart little engine. Road and Rail on the Great Central Railway at Quorn made a welcome return to the rally scene at Easter after an absence of a year. Road steam present on the Sunday were Peter Wood's 1925 Marshall roller 78572 (NR6296) and Robert Tyler's new acquisition from Reg Wells of Lincoln Fowler 15970 INW6092). This engine, now in tractor form, was built as a roller in 1924. The third engine 145
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LINCOLNSHIRE The venerable 1892 Hornsby traction engine, returned from Tasmania to the Museum of Lincolnshire Life, has recently left Lincoln for workshops in the Boston area where it will be restored. This move has been made possible by a grant from the Science Museum and from money from the Museum's own resources, together with more from the Museum's Friends Association. On its return, the engine should join the Ruston Proctor traction engine 46596 of 1913 ISFE519L1, also owned by the Museum, in visiting shows around the county. An engine to come into the county is Sentinel S4 wagon 8942 of 1934 (ATN3201. This has been purchased from Castleford, Yorkshire, by Ken Wooley, who also owns another engine previously in Yorkshire (in the ownership of Harold Bell(, Fowler roller 17482 of 1929 (XCE948). 146
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LONDON The annual Model Engineer and Modelling Exhibition was held again at Wembley over the new year period and along with the very many models and miniatures on display, also there was Denis Brandt's 1916 5 ton Foden tipping wagon 6216 (M8562(, at that time normally kept at the Kew Bridge Pumping Station Museum. This wagon, authentically restored in War Department livery, was actually used in France during World War 1 and ended its days in north eastern France in use up to the late 1940s. As well as model engineering skill in trams, boats, fairground rides and stationary engines, there were many items of road steam interest, one of the most eyecatching of which, because of its size, was a half size (6ins to 1ft) Burrell showmans model, owned by Graham Whitwell of Yorkshire. Finely finished in blue, it bore the name of SARAH.
NORFOLK Over the past two years, Bill Bird's Wallis traction 7690 of 1922 (BJ 87651 has been receiving attention in the form a new firebox, front tube plate and a set of tubes. The new box was put in by Mervyn Mayes of Yaxham and Bill and his two helpers,
Derek Kirk and Mervyn York have just about got the engine back together. The rear wheels have been rubbered and it is intended to fit the front ones similarly. It is hoped that this will reduce stress on both the engine and crew when driving to events in the locality. The last time the Wallis was steamed was in November 1987 when she was used, with trailer, to take one of the last local men of steam on his final journey from Worstead church to the graveyard. John Bunting was sadly killed in a road accident when cycling in the area and a good part of his working life had been spent with steam. The Wallis engine is engraved on his gravestone. Bill Bird's other engine, Aveling roller 8766 of 1916 IMNG259V1 has been rallied for the past two years whilst the Wallis has been receiving attention but this roller, re-imported from Italy some years ago where it had been in use with the Italian State Railways, is now due for its 10 year hydraulic test and will stand a while in consequence, awaiting its turn for attention. The Raveningham Threshing Fair near Loddon on 1st September will feature steam threshing and, hopefully, one of Michael Davies' Fowler Z7 ploughing engines and cultivator giving demonstration pulls — the first time that a Z7 has visited Norfolk.
OXFORDSHIRE Several engines have been noted for sale in the county — Peter Court's Fowler Z7 ploughing engines, 14367/14368 of 1916 and a couple of rollers. One was the Shackell's 1920 Fowler T3 type 15490 (CA63281, the other being Aveling AD type 14174 of 1934 IGL12811 owned by David Hitchman. David has purchased Aveling tractor 11705 of 1926 (PP7142) and sold the roller to David Plant. Another Aveling also acquired by David Plant is former North Riding County Council 10 ton 8754 of 1916 (VN2370) from Phil Priestner in Cheshire.
SCOTLAND Foster portable engine 14657 of 1940, owned by Trevor Rees, has been steamed at Summerlee Museum, Coatbridge and was due to make her first rally appearance for some time at the Scottish TES rally at New Lanark in early May. Rees and Woods' Marshall roller 83452 of 1928 (SY3582), resident at Summerlee, is needing firebox stay renewals and a boiler retube before it is on the active list again. The other Summerlee resident, 1928 Fowler roller 17251 IDS72061, has
done sterling work at the Museum over the Easter holidays in entertaining visitors. Whilst it is the declared policy of the museum to have an engine in steam during school holiday periods and on weekends (in addition to attending galas, fetes, etcl, it may not be possible to achieve this during 1990. Visitors are advised to check with the Museum by telephone to ascertain what will be working on the day of their visit to avoid disappointment. We are sorry to record the passing away of another steam engine owner. Jimmy Long of Muirhead was a contractor by profession and purchased the early Aveling roller 3001 of 1892 (SA4464) at the D.C. Stewart sale in 1976 at Aberdeen. The engine appeared at the Stirling rally of that year and occasionally turned out to local events.
SURREY Clive Holliday has sold Aveling roller 12103 of 1928 (SM7013) to Richard Perkins and, in turn, purchased 1921 Marshall traction 74614 (TA19371 from Hirsts of St Mary Bourne. This engine was with Kings of Bishops Lydeard and featured in their disposal auction in May 1988. The engine is in need of a new box, new smokebox and usual associated work before it can be steamed again — after some 50 years inactivity. The engine is now at Luggs at Billinghurst where the necessary repairs are to be completed.
SUSSEX Hollycombe opened as usual at Easter although, due to the poor weather, the number of visitors were down. All the normal attractions were in operation with Garrett showmans style tractor 33348 of 1018 (SZ100) LEISTON TOWN back in the bioscope show after a complete boiler rebuild and repainting during the winter. A new attraction for the 1990 season is an 1889 Hawthorne Leslie 0-4-0 saddle tank loco running on the tramway once occupied by the Aveling & Porter tramway loco SIR VINCENT. Another addition to the exhibits will be the Aveling roller 10050 of 1921 (XM4037), owned by the Collection, which it is hoped to have in steam for the Festival at the end of May. The Easter opening saw four visiting engines at the collection; 1934 Aveling roller 14179 (BKX861) owned by George Freemantle; Pete Lyon's 1909 Fowler traction 11698 (NK925); Charlie Russell's Burrell single crank compound traction 2933 of 1907 (CF3507), and, fresh out of Bicknell's after painting by David Eves, 1915
Burrell single crank compound 3657 (KE2651) MORNING GLORY. The Collection's splendidly restored Burrell showmans 1876 EMPEROR made up a trio of single crank machines — a display which our correspondent comments is not often seen outside East Anglia. The Collection's Wallis Simplicity roller 8023 of 1932 (CG571) has been stripped down ready for a new boiler after a few years out of service. As usual with the Hollycombe engines, this work will be done at Bicknells, whose own crane engine, Ransomes 31066 of 1920 (PV4943) is receiving major boiler work. Garrett showmans style tractor 333 /4 of 1918(CE8250) is having a repaint in the paint shop after last year's boiler work. An engine noted for sale is 1915 Aveling roller 8615 (MP81691 owned by G. Brockhurst. It is understood to have gone to the Horsham area although the new owner is not yet known.
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WARWICKSHIRE A report has been received of a clear out of the engines in the former yard of Bomford & Carr (latterly Hales) at Binton, near Stratford on Avon. One ploughing engine formerly resident here is 15223 of 1918 (CT42901, now in the ownership of Steve Parrott, as has previously been reported in these pages, but the present location of the remainder of the engines, including several diesel conversions of Fowler ploughing engines, is not precisely known. It is hoped the clear out has not resulted in the destruction of these relics at the end of a cutting torch.
WEST MIDLANDS A small event at the Compton Boys Club organised by Joe Davies near Wolverhampton was attended by Bob Bates' 1926 Aveling roller 11520 (MK5128) and Lyndon Shearman's 1860s Brown & May 2 Y2hp portable. It was a blazing hot day and as well as the engines, there were also present a vehicles, vintage selection of stationary engines, models and miniatures.
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YORKSHIRE A press report in early April set tongues wagging amongst' local enthusiasts when long time resident of Pudsey Park, Fowler roller 15752 of 1921 (WR7508), was spirited away, literally overnight, to a decontamination centre in Leeds. What had been known to enthusiasts for some time had finally been brought home to the Parks owners, Leeds roller's Department — that they had a play-
To make good the paucity of Welsh engines illustrated in the magazine Geoff Hayes kindly sends a further batch of his pictures, this time taken in the principality in the 1950s and 1960s. Here, in March 1965, is one of Merioneth C.C.'s Fowler DNA compound 10 ton rollers, 21698 of 1937, stands at the roadside, banked down for the night and protected from passing traffic by oil lamps. The location is the coast road at Rhoslefain. 148
ground item containing what was considered to be a hazardous substance (the asbestos based boiler lagging), for children to play on in a public park. The ultimate fate of the roller, now minus its canopy and looking somewhat sorry for itself in the press photographs, is still speculation, but it seems likely that there is a good chance it will join other Fowlers in the form of steam and petrol ploughing engines at the Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills. On 10th April, the end of an era was marked by the appearance in her previous owner's yard of Aveling roller 5308 of 1903 (HD1573) WITHERNSEA. The occasion was an auction sale of Hampshire Brothers' road making equipment at Ravensthorpe, following their decision to retire. The Aveling's owner, Barry Wood, took her along in appreciation of the help Jack Hampshire has given over the years to enthusiasts in the north and elsewhere from his knowledge of steam, and also the chances to use the stock of parts accumulated from the several engines which were dismantled in the yard over the years (see Steaming, March 1978 issue). There were several items of steam interest in the sale, some of which Jack had earlier advertised privately. A single tine scarifier and a McLaren cast iron toolbox previously offered at £60 and £40 respectively made the somewhat low prices of £5 and £12 at auction whilst an Aveling roller front axle (new) sold for £8, assorted firebars £6 and a used roller dieblock (for the forecarriage head) £5. A transport show at Harewood at Easter had a host of non-steam vehicles attending in addition to which
single. A further Aveling roller which has resurfaced (pardon the roadmaking pun) is diesel conversion 10890 of 1924 (SW1558) now owned by Graham Turner in the same area. It is understood to have been converted by its Scottish owning council and worked like that for a time before being laid aside. Graham intends to rebuild it to its original condition. It came to Yorkshire via Stockton Haulage Co, who acquired it around five years ago.
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Standing forlornly in the railway loco shed yard at Jatiroto sugar factory in east Java, Indonesia in November 1986 is Ruston & Hornsby roller 146485 of 1927. It is somebody's number 14 and was exported via agents Lindavetes Stokvis. Though the roller has been pictured in a similar position in 1984 it has moved in that time, though whether for work is not known. The racks over the footplate carry the sugar cane waste that forms the engine's fuel. (Hugh Ballantyne) locally owned Fowler roller 15851 of 1923 (NX3974), belonging to Ian Jackson and John Bolton, was also present. At the end of April, an Edwardian Day was held at Yeadon, near Leeds. Four engines were exhibited in the Town Hall square and also took part in a parade along the High Street from Moorfields Industrial Estate. Those present were David Mitchell's 1920 Fowler tractor 15625 (U7148); Burrell showmans 3950 (M02916) PROGRESS, new in 1924 and owned by Jim Gratton, and Richard Hullah's 1889 Aveling roller 2481 (CE9187), but pride of place was given to Andrew Craske's 1920 Fowler roller 15589 (U8709), previously with the wad surfacing contractor David Wood of Yeadon (famous for the origins of the Fowler-Wood tarspraying gear). Andrew's roller, the only one of the Wood's fleet remaining, appeared with a splendidly restored and signwritten living van in tow — this also belonged to the firm at one time. In early May, a roller appeared at Bilton near Harrogate, at a Gala. this was M.W. Robinson's 1925 Fowler 16436 (SA8439). Three additions or changes in
ownership have to be reported in the north of the county. A Fowler road loco owned by Mr Jameson is being renovated by John Smith, owner of Fowler 9544 of 1903 (DS6584), a repatriation from Australia. A large pile of engine pieces obtained from Lincolnshire constitute Fowler R class 8715 of 1900 (DE2453), an engine which lay In south west Wales for very many years and became very derelict — its companion there was Jim Smith's road loco 8712 of 1900 (DE2439), now restored and a familiar sight on Midlands rally fields. However, 8715 has been less fortunate, being moved to Hertfordshire and Scotland before Lincolnshire, so these well travelled and unrestored bits now deserve a rebuild. On dismantling the number 8424 has been found on the hornplate, which brings into question the engine's real identity; further historical research will be necessary. An Aveling roller which lay above Kirby Moorside for several years, known to many local enthusiasts as 'the Vicar's engine' has now come into the ownership of Nick Meadowcroft, who hopes to rally it shortly. The roller, 10545 of 1923 IHR7772), is an 8 ton piston valve
The Association's AGM and family weekend took place in Gloucester at the beginning of March. The attendance was the largest ever at this popular event and as well as the serious business of the weekend, time was found to view the unique 1933 Trotter steam roller, built locally at Coleford, which was under overhaul at the City's Folk Museum in Westgate Street. The Sunday morning visit was to the National Waterways Museum where local contractors, Road Rollers Ltd (Mr John Moore), had brought along a Barford & Perkins Victor pavement roller of 1929 and a Buffalo Springfield trench roller, made in America in the 1950s, and purchased by Gloucester County Council — believed to now be unique in this country, (RRA)
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Around i the World WEST GERMANY Peter Mergelkuhl sends reports of two portables to be seen in West Germany. The first is built by Joh. Petermann of Warendorf, number 1111 of 1911. That year was exceptionally dry, prompting the owner of a water mill near the village of Riemsloh, near Osnabruck to purchase the engine to drive his mill, and there it worked until 1940. By 1985, having passed into a scrapyard, the current owner Carl Rosendahl excavated it from under 20 tons of scrap and restored it. The engine is steamed every month during the summer in the same village of Riemsloh. Lanz portable 36661 of 1917 was, remarkably, in seasonal commercial use in the village of Ludenhausen until the autumn of 1988. Used originally for threshing and off season sawmilling, the latter job provided the engine's sole occupation from 1961. A replacement boiler had been
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ITALY Walter Venturini of Arezzo, Italy sends brief details of the small number of makers of portable engines (locomobilii in Italy, a country not noted for
its extensive use of such engines. Few machines were built during the nineteenth century, though many examples were imported from England. By the 1920s portables were being built in Milano by Ernesto Breda, and by Orsi of Tortona. The former firm offered a rather British design in eight sizes from 7/10hp to 25/35hp. The Societa Italo Suizzera at Bologna produced a light single cylindered machine with tubular firebox, mounted on two wheels, with shaft for horse haulage, like a water cart. In the small northern Italian town of Legnago, machines were built under licence from Marshalls of Gainsborough.
MOROCCO The two T. Green & Sons steam rollers which were derelict at the side of the road at Chaecouen have been returned to this country. The well rusted compound 10 tonners were featured in these notes in our Winter 1988/89 and Spring 1989 issues. The good Samaritan who repatriated them is Charlie Price.
This picture shows an unidentified Ruston compound portable at Haifa Harbour, Palestine, on 4th May 1931, whilst engaged on preliminary work on building the main wharf of the new harbour. The engine is standing on a timber staging in the water and although the drive belt is absent, the task is working a centrifugal pump, hringing sand from the shallow sea bed, as well as providing steam for the smaller pump near the camera. The elevated sectional tanks behind the portable presumably contain a suitable fresh water supply for the boiler. Although the task the portable is at was probably not an uncommon one, it could be that it was a rarely photographed scene. (Haifa City Archives, courtesy Paul Cottereil)
SOUTH AFRICA Ruston Proctor 6hp portable 36520 of 1909 is preserved in working order at the museum at Ladybrand, and steamed once or twice a year, driving a Marshall threshing box to demonstrate old style agricultural practices. At some stage in its working life the engine has acquired Marshall wheels. (S.A.M. Hewett)
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Zettelmeyer roller 688 pictured in Yugoslavia on its rail journey across Europe. (Frank Whiting)
Letters Conversions I note the Editor's decision to close the correspondence on the above subject, but hope I can be allowed to reply to an assertion Mr Doncaster makes in his letter on page 86 of the last issue. He states he is not sure where I got my information on the number A3927 on the works plate of the Sentinel bearing the registration V513, and says there is no number on it. My original comments on this plate in the Winter 1988/8 9 Issue were based on what I saw and photographed on the machine at the 1989 Bishops Castle rally. The photograph (which I passed to the Editor) clearly shows the lettering on the casting changed from 6 ton to 8 ton; 10 tons with trailer altered to 14 tons; Shrewsbury replaced by Glasgow and it bore the stamped number A3927 — a number from a series used in 1921, but itself not recorded as a wagon. Perhaps the number has since been erased.
The various programme entries for the wagon as it is exhibited around the country are contradictory; each time the wagon seems to be claimed to be something different. Joe Thomas
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Points from the last issue I was very intrigued to see reference to an Aveling roller registered WD3284 in the Lincolnshire notes in the last issue. The Borough of Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire ran a fleet of three steam rollers up to 1939 (and probably later) and these were registered WD3282 to WD3284. The latter was Aveling 6692, I think a single. It had been registered by Warwickshire County Council as No 138, and lacked a canopy. I saw it working many times between 1936 and 1939 but lost touch with it thereafter and am amazed to hear of it
Frank Whiting happened to be in the right place at the right time in May 1990 when he came across three steam engines apparently being transported to Germany by rail. At Jesenice, in north western Yugoslavia by the Austrian border, a freight train had aboard Zettelmeyer compound roller 688 of 1938, Clayton & Shuttleworth portable 58329 of 1928 (sold to their Austrian subsidiary Hoff herr & Schwartz) and Lanz portable 36983 of 1922. The trio were consigned to Munich, West Germany for Heimat Harz.
fifty years later. On page 104 of the same issue is a picture of Foden 0 type tractor as supplied to Warwickshire County Council. I had correspondence with the county surveyor concerning these machines about forty years ago. One, 14018 of 1931 (WD2514), was based on the Rugby area, having been exhibited at the Royal Agricultural Show at Warwick in July 1931 — possibly it had there caught the eye of the then surveyor. The other was 14056 of 1932 (not 14156 as printed in the caption), registered WD3905 and operated in the Coleshill area. The first tractor was sold in May 1938 to Wharton of Smethwick and the second to Bird of Stratford-on-Avon — a notable scrapman — in September 1939. I knew the Watton & Grew wagons well and saw 14044 (WD2785) still working for them as a Speed Six wagon in Coleshill on 20th April 1933 — very close to the time Mr Boughton acquired it and a little later than Mrs Lewis' family's memories of when their association with steam lorries finished. Eric Hannan
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(Alan Duke comments: Foden 14056 was actually completed in October 1931 and not sold until June 1932, to Warwickshire C.C. Aveling 151
6692, a 10 ton roller, was new to Sutton Coldfield Corporation in December 1908 and used by them until 1950, when sold to A.M. Cole of Sleaford. I saw it in the yard of Forman Bros, Branston, Lincs in June 1959, by then fitted with an engine out of a Bedford lorry. It was semi-derelict and I doubt if it ever saw much use in its rebuilt form. The registrations WD 3282-WD3284 applied to the Sutton Coldfield rollers were not issued until January 1932. There were a fairly substantial number of local authorities which simply ignored the 1921 requirement to register steam rollers etc. Most of them rectified the position later in the 1920s, but Sutton Coldfield was a particularly late example.)
Buried treasure I liked the suggestion made by Derek Rayner in last issue's 'Steaming Around' that enthusiasts might be
seeking buried treasure with metal detectors. I was interested to see a reference in Ronald H. Clark's book A Traction Engine Miscellany, page 212, that two or possibly three engines lie buried in Wymondham, Norfolk, since shortly after World War 2. Perhaps it might be possible to persuade Mr Clark to reveal the exact location for posterity? D. Harnaman
Colwyn Bay, Clwyd
1992 I have read some amusing things in Steaming over the years, and indeed I have tried to contribute from time to time in the same vein. I have however, never read anything as funny as '1992 and all That' in the Spring edition by my good friend Chris Raworth. Many a true word is said in jest, and such a scenario is not beyond the bounds of possibility with the way things are shaping up in a so-called
A roller not seen in public since its working days is Aveling 14035, an 8 ton slide valve machine of 1930 vintage. It was new to Salisbury UDC (MW8224) and passed to Eddisons during World War 2, being withdrawn from use in 1948 and then returned from the Grantham depot to their Dorchester yard for disposal. The roller was acquired by a Hampshire farmer for making and maintaining roads on his land and later sold for the same purpose to another local farmer. Several enginemen knew of its continued existence in the corner of a dry barn until last November the Aveling was purchased by Colin Hancock. Since then a number of new parts have been fitted and the roller was sufficiently restored to health to be steamed around Fareham in April. (Alan Crockford) 152
united Europe. We must be ever vigilant that Chris's hilarious bit of whimsy doesn't so easily become a reality for all of us. I, for one, would welcome more from his pen. Chris Edmonds
Haddenham, Buckinghamshire
Exports and Imports I am moved to write in response to the recent article on exports and imports. I have always been under the impression that the NTET was for steam engine enthusiasts; however, judging by the tone in some of the correspondence during the past few months, enthusiasm has become synonymous with fanaticism. Various correspondents are now pontificating about 'heritage' as though the derelict wreck abandoned in the Australian or Zambian bush is on a par with Ayers Rock, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Victoria Falls or Blenheim Palace. It is no more 'heritage' than the rusting beer cans that often surround it, and in 99 cases out of 100 the local farmer is only interested in what it will fetch. I have brought several derelict engines back to the UK for restoration. I own one in Australia which will be staying there, and I am looking for other interesting ones in various parts of the world. I strongly object to being told by Mr Brooks and others what I can and cannot do with them and, in order to preserve my freedom to move them in and out of the country, I suppose I will now have to put them into the ownership of an overseas trust or alternatively to keep them in another country. I would wager that during the past ten years many more engines have been brought back to the UK than have left — I know of some ten repatriations presently in the course of negotiation (none from Australasia). Perhaps this net gain helps keep prices, which appear to be another obsession, lower than they would otherwise be. Finally I would suggest to Mr Brooks and his supporters that the UK traction engine movement will not survive the Brussels bureaucrats if it is perceived to be just another narrow minded, cranky hobby limited to the British — thus it is very much in the interest of all of us that the Europeans take an active interest in owning, restoring and rallying engines, and if it means that they come over here and buy our engines then good luck to them. John Paul
London
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Books FARM MACHINERY 1750-1945 by Jonathan Brown. 118 pages, casebound with coloured dustjacket, 1 1 in x8 3/lin. Published 1989 by B.T. Batsford, London. Price £14.95. Many readers of this magazine will have more than a passing interest in the rich and lengthy history of farm machinery, which of course considerably predates the age of the steam traction engine and indeed, by now, has been added to by products of even 30 or even 40 years ago. Jonathan Brown is records officer at the Museum of English Rural Life at Reading University and as such has drawn upon that enormously varied resource which includes far, far more than the steam engine makers records that we are often so grateful to quote from in this magazine. The book is largely illustrative, four main chapters being a short two or three page introduction to the chronologically arranged subject, followed by a series of reproductions of varied woodcuts, engravings, posters, adverts etc, both from makers records
within the Museum's collection and from contemporary magazines etc. Chapter 3, 'The Rise of Agricultural Engineering' covers the time up to the established use of steam and underlines the long history of many steam engine builders — already Ransomes, Hornsby, Howard, Clayton & Shuttleworth and Garrett are everyday names in the world of agriculture. The fourth and largest chapter, 'The Steam Age of Farming 18501914' covers the subject most of our members will be familiar with but it is noticeable that although the steam traction engine and portable and ploughing engines become commonplace, these machines were really the only ones to bring steam to the farm. It is a reminder that the horse reigned supreme for most ploughing, for
hauling binders, reapers, mowers, drills and hoes etc, even if these machines themselves were always being improved and made more sophisticated. Within this chapter are mentioned several smaller firms who for some reason or other failed to make it. Who is not to say that with a slightly different turn of events — a marginally better design, stronger commercial aptitude or just better luck — Ashby, Jeffery & Luke traction engines and road rollers might not now be found in quantity on almost any rally field? The final chapter is devoted to the application of the internal combustion engine to agriculture but even this section offers an illustration of a 1937 Massey hay rake — still horse drawn. (Roger West) INDUSTRIAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, Shire Album 235, by Geoffrey Hayes. 32 pages, card covers, 6in x 8%in, 46 illustrations/ diagrams. Published by Shire Publications. Price £1. 75. Member Geoff Hayes has produced a useful and informative book in one of the latest of the Shire Album series. Although not directly associated with our hobby, the industrial locomotive is perhaps more closely
Fowler A7 class compound traction 14012 of 1915 rests in the sunshine at Wilstead, Bedfordshire, August 1989. (John Maund)
allied to it than main line steam; indeed both Aveling & Porter Ltd and the Sentinel Waggon Works produced variations of their usual products for use on rail. Examples of both types are shown in the book. It is produced in the usual Shire format. What is missing, unfortunately, is a list of manufacturers and their locations, and although these are covered in the text and captions, it is not easy to substantiate Geoff's claim that the centres of most prominence in industrial steam engine building were Bristol., I sane and Car tainly by proportion of the illustrations, Leeds accounted for 33%, the other two locations together, only 20%. One pleasing feature however, is the use of illustrations of locomotives which can still be seen today and a note of their whereabouts. Not only are standard gauge engines covered but narrow gauge also feature quite
extensively, as befits this topic. A useful book and certainly educational, even for the traction engine enthusiast — for it includes a chapter on how the steam loco works the description of which can be directly paralleled with our charges on the rally fields. To be recommended for those with a flanged wheel interest as well as strakes and rubber tyres. (Derek Rayner) Also noted The Guide to Stationary Steam Engines. Moorland Publishing Company, price £6.09. riivViei, MdiShalL Robey, Garrett, Foden and Ruston are all names well known on tho rally fields for their steam powered vehicles but they also feature in the less well established preservation scene of stationary engines. Member Geoff Hayes' update of his 1981 Moorland Publishing book includes details of engines by the
New Members A sincere welcome is extended to the following new members who have joined the Trust during the lest three months. We hope they will all gain much friendship, information and enjoyment from their membership over a period of many years.
T.Wrench, Thimble Cottage, 39 Ashburton Road, Ickburgh, Thetford, Norfolk. N.A. Goude, '130 Newark Avenue, Dogsthorpe, Peteborough,
Cambridgeshire. Family members — Jill and Jo-anne. P.A. Smith, 16 Hague Lane, Renishaw, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Family members — Ann, Adrian and Doug. D.J. Corley, Ty Coch, 19b Queens Road. Weybridge, Surrey. J.D. Ablett, 20 Rosslyn Way. Thornbury, Avon. K.D. Gamlen, 22 North Lane, Naiism Bristol. C. Bedwell, 58 Mill Road, Mutford, Beccles, Suffolk, M. Keat, 19 Lyndhurst Road, Gosport, Hampshire. B. Sheffield, 88 Lansdowne Grove, South Wigston, Leicester. Family member — Pamela. G. Cole, Severn House, Epney, Gloucestershire.
L. Amos, Severn Works, Epney, Gloucestershire. B. Peat, 20 Sandrock Villas, Cranbrook Road, Hawkhurst, Kent. M. Maskell, Duck End, Wilstead, Bedford. Mrs K. Chatterton, 58 Penn Road, Datchet, Slough, Berkshire. P. Hawkins, 5 Leighton Avenue, Pinner, Middlesex.
A.G. Pinn, 9 Tipton Avenue, Ottery St Mary, Devon. D. Barlow, 920 Leek New Road, Baddeley Green, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. B.C. Bastable, 10 The Oval, Findon, Worthing, West Sussex. Family members — Kim, Robert, Nikki and Adam. D.R. Owens, Penrallhebog, Bryngwyn, Newcastle Emlyn, Dyfed.
above makers as well as many others. He has catalogued engines into three categories — those able to be seen on site by the public on a regular basis, engines relocated in museums and other engines on site in two subgroups — access on open days only and access by private arrangement. An initial section on how the several types of engine function and a glossary of terms help the browsing enthusiast to understand the details in the sections which follow. Illustrations are plentiful among the 160 pages and nearly twu hundred locations are listed, the engines ranging in size from the 100 inch cylindered one at Kew Bridge Pumping Station down to the small banjo pump with a 1 inch bore at Wendron Forge, Cornwall. It is pleasing to learn that so many engines have surivived or are being restored, so that future generations can marvel at them. (Derek Rayner)
D. Mann, 15 Sir Isaac Newton Close, Holbeach, Spalding, Lincolnshire. J. Marett, Farm Cottage, Rozel Manor, St Martin, Jersey, Channel Islands.
D. Lodge, 327 Canterbury Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire. G. Chambers, Spingfield, Wall Hill Road, Corley Moor, Worcestershire. C.A. White, 24 Franklands Close, Southwark Park Road,
Bermondsey, London. K.E. Bredo, Keridene, The Promenade, Maylandsea, Chelmsford, Essex. R. Longland, Maryland, Oasby, Grantham. Lincolnshire. D. Anton, 22709 Monona Drive, Grand Terrace, California 92324, USA. T.P.C. Goodwin, 3 Stanley Avenue South, Mile Oak, Portslade, Sussex. J.J. Hatfield, 11 Park Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex. M.J. West, 5 Portway Court, Halstead, Essex. Family members — Mares, James and Anna Mrs Collins, Moyfield Farm, South Littleton, Evesham, Worcestershire. R.E. Bullen, 28 Newleaze, Steeple Ashton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire. G. Horne, 14 Hillcrest Close, Sturminster Newton, Dorset. J.T.G. Harris, Oak Cottage, Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire. Family members — Ann and Tom. B. Koks, Zandvoortseweg 59, 3741 BB Baarn, Holland. H.J. Newman, 1 St Georges Close, TowceSter, Northamptonshire. P.J. Loney, 45 Rossfold Road, Sundon Park, Luton, Bedfordshire.
Family members — Madeleine, Marie and Christopher. D.J. Bennion, 91 Barnmeadow Road, Newport, Salop. P.J. Mayo, 29 Longleat Avenue, Tuffley, Gloucester. .1. Nnrman, Nixon's Cottage, Holmes Chapel Road, Peovor Superior, Cheshire.
K. Arnold, 4 Anthony Court, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. Family member — Gina. D. Franklin, 3 Mill Street, Kidlington, Oxford. S. Jones, 7 Thornton Road, Wimbledon, London. J.C. Morgan, 18 West Thorpe, Basildon, Essex. P. VVatorfield, 151 Langdale Road, Thornton Heath, Croydon. H. Perry, 107 Moore Avenue, Wibsey, Bradford, West Yorkshire.
G. Wood, 5 Chestnut Grove, Mapperley Park, Nottingham. D.J. Hordern, Unit 1, Alexandra Headland, Australia. H.L. Stafford, 17 Arncliffe Avenue, Stockton on Tees, Cleveland. N. Barnes, Old Bakehouse, Ockendon Road, North Ockendon, Upminster, Essex. S.J. Nicholson, Staithe Farm, Catfield, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk. A. Baskerville, 15 Andrew Close, Blandford, Dorset.
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Small Adverts — members are asked to note certain alterations to the conditions for free advertising in these columns — please see the announcement in Trust News in this issue. Wade one-man drag saw, c1946. Can anyone help me rebuild an incomplete engine? I have only bottom half of crankcase and crankshaft; need integral barrel with top half, magneto, carburettor or complete engine. — Huggins, Exeter Farm, Cassington Road, Yarnton, Oxford lw 08675 4680). Glenruthven Mill, tandem compound mill engine in steam every Sunday 1.30 to 4.30 from 22 July to 9 September 1990. Abbey Road, off High Street, Auchterarder, near Perth. Discovering Traction Engines (Bonnett) 1969, £1.50; Ploughing Engines at' Work (Finch) 1962, £2.00; Traction Engine Pictures (Beaumont) 1961, £2.00; Heavy Haulage (ed Hawthorne) NTEC 1960s £3.00; Steam Preservation Nos 36, 37, 42, 43, 48, £1.00 each; Steaming Vol 14 No 3, Vol 18 No 4, Vol 21 No 2, Vol 23 No 1, Vol 24 No 4, Vol 27 Nos 1 and 2, £1.50; Light Steam Power 62 various issues 1959-1970, £1.00 each; rally programmes from 60s to 80s, mainly north, state wants. Plus postage or collect. — Kilgour, 7 Sunderland Road, Easington Village, Co Durham SR8 3TP (Tr 091 5270743). Wanted — Solex 26FH carburettor, contact breaker and timing gear cover, drain cock for Fowler 1.25hp stationary engine type 1 PAC No P13638. — Kilgour, address as above advert. Member and son visiting New Zealand North Island, possibly South, for long stay, would like to contact engine owners etc. Interested in all types of old machinery. Leaving UK 4th December. Please contact — Tim Keenan, 8 Mutrix Road, Westbrook, Margate, Kent CT9 5JL (' 0843 34419). For sale — complete set of pipework and firebox metalwork to make 41hin scale Plastow Burrell traction. Also some drawings, patterns and other parts. £50, buyer collects. — Keenan, address as above advert. For sale — one Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies engine plate, no 23001; one Wallis & Steevens plate, no 7646. £25.00 each. — Keenan, address as above advert. For sale — Fowler brass chimney tops at a reasonable price. Authentic two piece spinnings of 12in dia (for classes N, D2, D5, DH, DN, DN1, DNA/B/C and T3A/B) and 13in dia (for classes TE2, R, R3, A4/5, A7/8/9). Details from R. Payne, 31 Newton Road, Geddington, near Kettering, Northants NN14 1AU.
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Gauge glasses — many sizes available. Send for list. — Ray Hooley, 16 Alexandre Avenue, North Hykeham, Lincoln (Tel 0522-682406). Ruston Hornsby transfers — full range of designs and sizes; send for list. Engines dated gratis. Full sets of publications available for most models. — Ray Hooley, 16 Alexandre Avenue, North Hykeham, Lincoln (Tel 0522-6824061. For sale Fowler plougning engine 15222 of 1918, new boiler, rally condition, part exchange considered. — Colin Wait, IT Long Ashton 393480. Steam Mill Engine SARA, c1883, 300hp in steam 22nd/23rd September and 1st/2nd December at Skopos Design, Providence Mill, Syke Lane, Earlsheaton, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. Wanted — meter board complete or meters (preferably brass) for Mather & Platt dynamo, 110v, 170amp, for showmans loco. — D.M. Leadbetter, Cornerways, Mill Road, Liss, Hampshire GU33 7DZ (Tr 0730 893666) Offers for Merryweather boiler/pump on carriage, good condition, £1750; Stones turbo generator, 350 watt, £350; portable WW2 steam electrical generator in wooden box, £375; Crompton generator 100/110v 950 revs, ideal for showmans tractor, good condition, £550; Worthington Simpson boiler pumps; aluminium wheels ex luggage trucks, 20in dia, bonded rubber; two wooden wheels, 4ft 3in, carved spokes, brass centres; scooter wheels with tyres and tubes. D.M. Leadbetter, address as above advert. For sale — steam portables by Merlin built 1926/28, Ransomes (1928), Breloux (1924), Ruston Proctor (1905), Societe Francaise (1886), Weyer & Pickenwind 11911); threshing machines by Merlin (two of 1915), Breloux (1876), Societe Francaise 119081. For information contact — Mr P. Kemps, de Banier 23, Swifterbout, 8255 G.J., The Netherlands iv Netherlands 03212-2915) For sale — two iron wheels 32in dia x 4in wide, ideal for portable, living van or steam tractor; wash out pump; dynamo pulley 7in dia plus flange x 2in bore, for 6in belt; gauge frame fittings; big end brasses 3 1/2 in and 3 3/4 in bore. Garrett tractor curved makers plate, hub caps, final drive, crosshead, lifting links, slide valve and die blocks — a 021 501 3190. Wanted — Foster engine makers plates and name plates; also small vertical boiler, Barford or similar, any condition. — vr 021 501 3190. For sale — single axle trailer, flat deck, 10ft x 5ft with winch, brakes, ball hitch, maroon and red paint, in excellent condition, ideal for transporting and displaying stationary engines etc £175 ono. 72021 501 3190. The Sentinel 1930-1980, — Volume 2 by A.R. and J.L. Thomas. This 320 page book with 153 illustrations still available. See book review in Spring 1988 issue of this magazine. Available from NTEC Sales or at £12.95 post free from Woodpecker Publications, Woodpecker Lodge, Barneshall Avenue, Worcester WR5 3EU. For sale — Aveling exhaust pipe casting D245, believed 8 ton compound; Aveling rear axle brake bracket off tender side and lever, fits most types; Scammel snatch block large ex WD; air start cylinder for oil engine 15in x 48in tested to 40001bs; one pair Thornycroft front wheels 2ft 9in dia, 720mm x 120mm solids; RLS Journal May 1974; various new square shank twist drills; front loader for Fordson Major; Fair Organs (Beaumont) 1968, 50 pictures; Steam in the South & West (Endacottl; Savages Ltd, A Short History (Clark); sock lifting barrow by Tessdale Bros, Darlington; Hydrovane portable air compressor, wheelbarrow type, VW engine, 100Ibs, twin outlet; 1947 Ransomes threshing machine class AM Medium on steel wheels, with Hornsby two string straw trusser, one owner from new, done little work, needs repaint. — G. Thirkell, Britannia House, Eldon Bank Top, Shildon, Co Durham DL4 2HJ. Bolton Steam Museum (Northern Mill Engine Society) working Sunday 27th May, Monday 27th August, Sundays 7th October and 9th December. Six engines include 1840 twin beam, 1860 vertical, 1893 'non-dead centre' and 1902 tandem compound. 11am-4pm, parties welcome, free parking. — The Engine-house, Atlas No3 Mill, off Chorley Old Road (66226), Bolton (tr 0204 74557). go
The Robey Trust - for all interested in the history and products of Robey of Lincoln 1854-1988. Subscription £5, brings magazine published termly. The Trust exists to restore Robey machinery of all types and to collect information on all aspects of the firm. Registered educational charity. - Dave Davies (chairman1,9 Churchill Road, Tavistock, Devon PL19 9BU (tel 0822 615960). For sale - decorated gipsy style showmans wooden living van, Button type with mollycroft roof, built Stokes of Broadway 1900, Lots of carved wood, cut glass, brass fittings, (Weenie stove. In excellent condition, much spent on restoration inc new wood wheels. Serious enquiries to Mrs Anne Mil!ward v 021 501 3190 (Midlands). For sale - Caterpillar R2 farm tractor, TVO, 1938 In immaculate condition with original log book, £1250. - sr 021 501 3190. Wanted - steam pnwered host, spprov 18-25ft, huh and engine in good condition, grp preferred, for use in sheltered coastal waters. H.G. Schilrings, Elbestrasse 41, RIVER HIDEAWAY, D2160 Stade 5, West Germany Is 04146/5644). For sale - Aveling R10 flywheel, 461/2 in dia x Sin bore. Offers to 27 0462 813543. New Fowler parts - firehole door (11 x 9); chimney base (D.1381); smokebox door builders plates IBB1 brass): cast iron toolbox; firebars. - Dorothea Restorations Ltd, New Road, Whaley Bridge, Stockport, Cheshire SK12 70W (sr 0663 733611). For sale - (iarreet tractor 2nd shaft with 2 speed gearing; Aveling roller axle boxes, good bearings; 2nd shaft sliding pinion; pnrrshle engine rhirriney; Wallis trailer wheels with axle; Foctor rubber tyred ditto; heavy water gauge fittings, %in tapping takes '/sin glass; bottom half water gauge flange, 4 hole fitting; two tin wheel valves; %in gate valves; 84ft of 5in x 5ply Relate belting; various lengths of 2Y, in belting; 15cwt pull lift, new; %in Penberthy injector; Epco pressure pump (10000Ibs); glass drip feel lubricator; steel tube brushes; slide valve (unusued); drawbar pins; pair brass bearings, 2'/ in x 4'/s in, new; snatch block; 1 ton chain blocks; Dewarance test gauge 20001bs; Sentinel condenser coil springs; Sentinel knight figure, Sentinel apron plate; Marshall brass nameplate;_ Foster Wellington tractor plate; engine driven water pump. - L.J. Lambe, 84 Redditch Road, Stoke Heath, Brumsgrove, B60 4JR lsr 0527 31398). For sale Foden 5 ton steam wagon illustrated pal is list with price list, in sound condition hut finger marked - best offer secures; five open-ended spanners from 1%in to 2%in jaws and up to 22in long, very heavy duty, £20 lot; blacksmiths anvil, appiox 11/2 cwt, sound condition, £40; cast iron Bamlett farm implement seat, high decorative, in sound condition, £12; siren, 12 volt in heavy chromed streamlined case with base flange, suitable for preserved emergency vehicle, condition perfect, £35. - v0934-627404 (AveM. Free colour catalogue illustrating new books, rare books, catalogues and vintage posters. Many items you could never find again in twenty years now mailed to you the same day. SAE to Russell Jones, The Coach House, Hurley, Berkshire. Wanted - roller type living van in good condition with iron wheels, also original interior fittings if possible including coal stove. - W.E. Charlton, 2 Field House, New Kyo, Stanley, Co Durham DH9 7HX Iv 0207 281718). Wanted - for 1921 Marshall 6hp traction; No2 displacement lubricator, harmony whistle, Marshall type mechanical lubricator, r.h. crankshaft bracket. - Clive Holliday, v 0784 434957 (Egham, Surrey). For sale - ex South African Railways locomotive chime whistle, complete with valve. - Clive Holliday, lar0784 434957 (Egham, Surrey) Roller shutter doors for sale - made to measure, hand chain operated or electrically operated. Also security shutters and vehicle shutters, steel or aluminium. - Tambour Industrial Doors, 21 Marston Lane, Marston, near Northwich, Cheshire CW9 6DL (Tr 0606 42423, ring anytime). Road Roller Association for all interested in steam or motor rollers, road making machines, practices and history. Quarterly journal ROLLING. Subscription £7.00 per year. - Membership Secretary, Mrs Alison Arrowsmith, 7 Worcester Close, Lichfield, Staffordshire WS13 7SP.
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Makers catalogues - reprints for sale: Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Engines and Threshing Machines £1; Foden Wagons, 1904 £2.95; Foster Traction and Road Locos, c1911 £1.95; Naylor Hereford Wagons £1.50; post free from Road Locomotive Society Sales, Foxgrove, Burnt Common Lane, Ripley, Surrey GU24 6HD. Steam Plough Club - for all interested in steam cultivation, offering regular newsletter, events, visits, history and technical advice. Subscription £8.00 per year, OAP's £2.00 - John Billard, Old Station House, Twyford, Berkshire RG10 9NA. Wanted - Eli Griffiths & Sons offside spring mounted roller lamp; Aveling water elevator blanking cap part no H465; suction hose union for above; Aveling smokebox door closing handle. M.J. Collier, 'er 081 897 3436. For sale - sensible offers invited for 1914 4hp double crank compound Burrell Gold Medal showmans tractor, much admired and rallied regularly over the last 30 years, as shown in the Very fast engine an the May/June 1 090 Old Glory magazine road. - J. Lowrance (NTET no 506), Stonecroft, Great Milton, Oxford OX9 7NT (720844 279236). Wanted - for Wallis Advance roller - large end brasses, part no 158. Tr Mike Dyson on 0954 30659. For sale - Steaming back numbers, 40 issues from Vol 14. - 72 Mike Dyson on 0954 30659. For sale - Fowler single cylinder 7hp general purpose engine, good boiler and firebox, fully restored, full boiler certificate. v 0258 860044 after 7pm. Wanted - numerous parts for Aveling E type 10 ton roller rescued from the Cumberland Market playground, see article in last issue fur list. Please contact Ron Walker a 001 954 1664. For sale - large 3in scale model, approx 9cwt. Road taxed, British Engine boiler insurance certificate; twin high pressure cylinders, a very powerful engine; 2 speed gearing with diff. etc; four scale wagons, 1 x 40 wheel low load trailer with dummy load, 1 workers van, all matching the engine. £6000 - for further details and photos - R. Davey, E.D. College, Balham Road, Tiverton, Devon EX16 6SH. For sale - 1921 Aveling & Porter F type p.v. compound 10 ton roller, much work completed over last four years, full boiler certificate, ready to go, scarifier and canopy included but not fitted. Paul Brook, .or 0793 783786 (Shrivenham, near Swindon). For sale - right hand steering bow for small (8 ton?) Aveling roller, £30. - Paul Brook, 73' 0793 783786. For sale - pair new brass bearings 4'Ain x 2Ysin inside dia; crankshaft or 2nd shaft bearing caps, casting nos 15700 and R943; Fowler single cylinder safety valve plate; Fowler walking board brackets; Fowler wheel drive pinion, new; Fowler spares catalogue photostat copies; twin cylinder compressor unit with V pulley; Lister 'bin injector, very rare; Desoutter Model 221 air gun. - L.J. Lambe, 84 Redditch Road, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove B60 4JR (Tr 0527 31398). Celebratory Road Run - Hockley Heath Steam Association celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and is arranging an autumn road run. Engine Owners are cordially invited to join in a gentle parade through the Warwickshire lanes with lunch at a country pub. For futher details contact R. Dixon, 663 Shirley Road, Hall Green, Birmingham B28 9JX Iv 021 777 2431). For sale - old SteamIngs, Vol 4 to 28. Send SAE for Full list and prices to Anthony P. Cowell, Three Mile Cross Farm, Grimsargh, Preston PR2 SSA. Wanted - 6hp Burrell single crank compound, parts Inc crankshaft diff., gearing, motion for rebuilding 1687. - A.P. Cowell, 11' 0772 653569 or fax 0772 65114. Would the gentleman in Wales with Burrell steering chains and Fowler diffs please ring me again as I have mislaid his number. - A.P. Cowell, a 0772 653569. The National Vintage Tractor and Engine Club - caters for all enthusiasts (3000 members nationwide). 26 local area groups organise meetings with illustrated talks and help for members. Club magazine Vaporising with articles of interest and free ads for members. Basic membership £13.00. Details from Mrs P.E. Sims, 1 Hall Farm Cottages, Church Lane, Swarkestone, Derby DE7 1JB (sae please; sample magazine £1.00 stamps).
Valuations, to ensure you are safe we can officially value your book and catalogue collection. Now vital for pre sale and insurance. Russell Jones Books PBFA FCIM (11.062 882 4237, office hours until 7pm1. Wanted — lin x 11tpi crown stay tap, also two Clayton 4f1 die x 4in wide wood wheels. — D. Solomon, 30 Churchview Road, Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall (Tr Camborne 713169),
John Lea and his 1914 Foden 5 ton wagon 5078 enjoying a leisurely autumn Sunday afternoon run through the Cheshire lanes around their home at Snelson, Cheshire. (Jim Stevenson)
For sale— several ball bearings for Ransomes AM5/I thresher; drawbar and 4 ton Haley jack, also a few Massey trusser spares including knotter hooks and trip springs, quantity small belting and fasteners. — a 0305 817370 evenings.
Wanted — Pickering governors with 2in die valves; side mounted water lifter; simpling valve for 1916 thp dcc Burrell. — P. Barnes, address as above advert.
Wanted — one lett hand rear wheel tor Garrett tractor, also cylinder drain cocks, Klinger gauge frame. — R.N. Greenaway, The Beeches, Stoke Row, Oxon (Tr 0491 680585).
Wanted for Marshall ohv compound roller 74746: mechanical lubricator (any make). Also flywheel or help with manufacture of new; oil cups, two bolt oval flange fixing. — Gary Smith, Tr 0494 711629.
Wanted brass makers/builders plates from traction engines, steam rollers, wagons, stationary steam engines, old boilers etc for display in my steam engine house. — Write or phone Alan McEwen, Farling Top Farm, Cowling, near Keighley, West Yorkshire (Tr 0535 634674). Wanted to purchase the following brass makers plates for my collection Charles Burrell & Sons; A Dodman & Co Ltd; Holmes & Sons, Norwich; Savages Ltd, Kings Lynn; Robert Tidman & Sons; Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies; Foden, Sandbach; Daniel Adamson; Marshall & Anderson; Walter Coltman, Loughborough; Hewitt & Kellit, Bradford; Cole, Marchant & Morley; Pollit & Wigzell, Burnley Ironworks, and any other originals. — Alan McEwen, address as above advert. For sale — Aveling & Porter p,v. roller; best offer secures. — 27 0332 880134 (Derby) For sale — Nichols vertical steam pump, banjo type, suitable floor or wall mounting, full restored, with flexible connection to steam from t.e. boiler; rachet lubricator by Sumner, Oldham, suitable for small steam engine; lever and arm weighted safety valve, 1in bore. — 12 Mudds, 0484 602360. Wanted — for %in Pickering governor, main valve body, or would consider complete governor. — Ferris, 13 Everard Street, Barry, South Glamorgan CF6 6PW (Tr 0446 748354). For sale — Pickering governors, 22in high, 5Y in dia mounting, 2 3/16in dia valves; cast iron boiler clack valve off portable; various gauge glass fittings, assorted gate valves and fittings, mud doors; cast iron chimney base ring, 10in dia; 6in bench grinder; top mounted water lifter; 2'/ in dia hose union; two traction engine screw jacks. — P. Barnes, Collymoor House, Peter Tavy, Tavistock, Devon PL19 9NN (Tr 0822 81575 evenings).
For sale — Marshall tandem steam roller 87125 of 1933. Believed unique; totally restored to very high standard. Offers — 12 0749 841041 or 0831 498949. Light Steam Power — road steam, boats, etc. Four complete volumes of six issues each, 1967 to 1971 inc. 25 other copies from 1957-68, £2 per copy. Steaming Vol 6 No 2; Vol 7 Nos 2, 4 and many from Vol 14 onwards — G.R. Hawthorne, 69 West Chiltern, Woodcote, Reading RG8 OSG ltr 0491 680484). For sale — surplus steam spares: Penberthy injectors (as new), two at £45 each; winch rope (ex steam tractor), £40; showmans extension chimney, new, made of light gauge stainless steel, 67in x 11%in, £120; Flathers 100amp 110v 700 rev dynamo, £200. — Hardy Tr 0405 861119 (evenings). For sale — several books on traction engines etc: A Century of Traction Engines; Research on Road Safety; The Steam Engine (Ferry), etc. SAC for details and prices. — Pat Freeman, 11 Avenue Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 9TY. Portable or semi-portable engine wanted, no larger than 5hp, preferably in running order but not essential. I have had no replies to two previous adverts — if none this time I shall have to advertise for a showmans roller and convert it. — John Sawle, Beacon Cottage Farm, St Agnes, Cornwall (12087 255 2347). Wanted — William Allchin maker's transfer, or would exchange for one by William Foster. — Dr J.L. Middlemiss, 25 West Street, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambs. For sale — Vols 21 through 32 of Steaming, plus parts Vols 13 and 14. £6 to cover postage. — D. Hurden, La Tour, Sark, Channel Islands. — (720481 83 2281). 159
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