These guys have working these engines all afternoon, and deserved a beer, without doubt.
“Well, we have travelled almost half a mile”.
Seen in Stow-cum-Quy, Cambridgeshire, 23 July 2016, 5.30 pm, immediately after the Cambridgeshire Steam Rally.
It would have been quicker, though, to have walked to the pub!
Saw a steam engine move a fully loaded 43 foot container at a car show in West Sussex many years ago. The container was parked on the farmer’s field but the magnificent machine pulled it along the grass like is was a a mere trifle. It was bloody awesome!
Great stuff, Roger. I’m a big fan of traction engines, road locomotives and rollers. CCer’s shouldn’t miss the live steam, fully operational scale model on the far right in the second photo. The Brits do these up like no one else. Note the number plate required for road use on the one in the photo below.
See also Fred Dibna…..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFHYKCgZYuY
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Still in my dinky toys collection. Anyone identify it?
Yup. Matchbox Allchin traction engine, the first in their Models of Yesteryear line. From the late 1950’s, I believe. I still have mine, too.
Decades later, I got this as a birthday present. It’s a 1/24th scale Burrell road locomotive made by a British company (who else?), Midsummer Models…
Nice recreation of the original photo Bernard!
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WE have some around here and they are registered for road use, Model TT Ford as a refueling tender
Wonderful old machines. Most of them have probably been in preservation for over half a century. Here’s a photo my Dad took at a Steam Rally in the mid ’50s (some time in 1954-55 if I’ve identified the tax disc, enlarged, correctly):
It’s not uncommon to see a steam traction engine around here at annual threshing shows. Usually belted to a thresher or saw mill. Always fascinating to watch!
There is a local person who has an old steam engine (a rather small one) he uses to turn the canister for making ice cream. He calls it Steamed Cream or something like that.
I love hearing them run.
Saw one with a rock crusher last year. That was fun!
At the local agricultural show there’s a building full of stationary steam engines, with portables and traction engines in steam outside. Occasionally you see one driving around the showgrounds. It must have been really special to see these on the road.
noticed the nameplate on one…”Britannia Doombar”
that can’t be the maker..can it?
No, ‘Britannia’ is a Charles Burrell & Sons product, built 1925. The ‘Doombar’ part is a beer sponsorship acknowledgement.
There’s an earlier photograph of it here – http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/engines/burrell/general-purpose-engine/4019/16/
One of the benefits of living in the American Midwest is that steam power and traction shows are fairly common if you don’t mind a little driving. I could watch these things run all day.
thank you Bernard. I know there have been some “interestingly” named British vehicles but that was taking it to a whoooole different level!