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This engine spent its working life in Republic of Ireland where it was preserved early on, then was sold back to the UK
to Dave Davis before Eddie Fox bought the engine back to his family who had used Robey No. 33348 in its working
life. The engine is back in the UK for its ten-year test and a repaint at Allison Engineering. Photo: Mark H Hughes

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CONTENTS No 406 | December 2023

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE 12 NEWS NEWS NEWS 36 175 YEARS OF MARSHALL

What a wonderful All that’s going on in the world of The editor visited the Haddenham
Christmas sight vehicle preservation in more ways than Steam & Country Show on a very hot
at the Beamish one! September Saturday and thoroughly
Museum, County enjoyed their special feature which
Durham where 20 MIKE NEALE’S DIECAST
was Marshalls of Gainsborough.
the mighty 1920 MODELLER
Fowler A9 road Mike’s monthly review of the latest 40 THE HENGIST STORY P1
locomotive No. diecast models and his exclusive toys David Vaughan looks at a steam roller
fairs list. with an interesting history and which
15649 Providence
was giving rides around the site. Photo: 22 BUMPER CHRISTMAS has just come back on the rally fields
Howard Stafford REVIEWS after a thorough refresh.
This engine is featured in the Old Mike Neale looks 44 MINIATURE CORNER
Glory Steam Road Locomotives Then at some of the latest This month we look at the excellent
and Now P4 bookazine that has just transport books on the miniatures on display at Chester-le-
been released - it would make a great market – they might just Street back in July.
stocking filler and can be purchased make excellent Christmas
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6 FROM THE EDITOR Railway to catch up with what has
steam and vintage transport right to
This month the editor talks about the been going on with the various narrow
your door.
exciting Old Glory Engineering and gauge railways this year.
Model Show which has been added 28 LETTERS LETTERS LETTERS
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Counties Showground, Malvern, welcome and appreciated – please COMMERCIAL MUSEUM
Worcestershire on 24-25 February, with write in and do send your pictures in Earlier in the year David Reed met
class competitions for all kind of models as well. Graham Lee who took him around the
and more. It’s all in the warm! new commercial vehicle museum that’s
32 REVIEW: GREAT CROWD on site here.
8 IN STEAM AND OFF TO AMERICA! AT MIDLANDS MODEL
It was the last chance to see Fowlers ENGINEERING SHOW 60 FRENCH BEAUTY
Nos. 15170/1 before they head to The editor took time off to visit the Zack Stiling meets up with a 1926
North America. Simon Colbeck met the excellent Midlands Engineering Renault OS Camion 30cwt commercial
new owners and the company who are Show. A good crowd was seen at the that’s lived and rallied in the south of
to replace the boilers in India. excellent event. England since 1978.

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PLOUGHERS READY TO LEAVE FOR USA…

▲ What a sight at Stotfold Mill. Fowler BB1s Nos. 15170 and 15171 Princess Caroline and Princess Jayne of 1918 and K7 pair
Nos. 14247 and 14248 Sunrise and Sunset of 1915 raise steam in the cool morning air.

▲ Scott Hall’s new purchases, Fowler BB1’s Nos. 15170 and ▲ Scott Hall’s Avery undermount at the 2018 GDSF where it
15171 Princess Caroline and Princess Jayne of 1918. worked in the ploughing field area during the 50th event.

The annual Stotfold Mill working weekend on 7-8 October this year
witnessed the return to the ploughing field for the first time in many years
of the former Vernon collection 1918 Fowler BB1 ploughing engines Nos.
15170/1. Simon Colbeck was there on the preceding Friday to watch the
team from the Saunders Collection prepare for the weekend.

T
he morning of 6 October in a
field adjacent to the Stotfold
water mill, Bedfordshire was the
perfect location to witness four Fowler
ploughing engines being readied for a
day in the fields.
Regulars at the Stotfold working
weekend, 1915 Fowler K7 pair Nos.
14247 and 14248 Sunrise and Sunset
from the Saunders collection were joined
by BB1s Nos. 15170 and 15171
Princess Caroline and Princess Jayne.
The pair of BB1s was formally part
of the late Richard Vernon’s collection
and had been sold at auction in June
this year. The new owner is Scott Hall
of Wichita, Kansas in the United States
who agreed for the Saunders Collection
to look after the two engines prior to
their shipment state side.
No. 15170 Princess Caroline had
made a surprise appearance in steam
at the Bedfordshire Steam Engine
Preservation Society’s Turvey rally in
September, but this was the first time the
two engines had been seen in steam
together at a public event for many,
many years.
To witness his engines’ first time
ploughing since purchasing them, Scott
Hall and his wife Jennifer made the trip
over from America to Stotfold to see the
engines in action. Scott is no stranger
to steam; the owner of an industrial
services business that specialise in heavy
transportation, repair and maintenance,

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▲ Fowler BB1 No. 15170 Princess Caroline climbs the hill with the cable from No. 15171 Princess Jayne in preparation to start
ploughing. K7 pair Sunrise and Sunset are about to do the same.

▲ American traction boiler of welded

construction with replica rivets at the
workshop of Thermal Engitech in India.

▲ BB1 Princess Jayne positions the

▲ Scott and Jennifer Hall, the new owners of BB1s Nos. 15170 and 15171 with the Fowler four-furrow plough into place
representatives of Thermal Engitech from Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, India. ready to commence ploughing.

he is the owner of a large collection of
American traction engines. His collection
includes a mighty Avery undermount
70bhp direct ploughing engine. He was
running this engine at the 2018 Great
Dorset Steam Fair and that was the start
of Scott’s ambition to own a pair of
cable ploughing engines.
The Saunders Collection team had
worked hard getting Scott’s engines
ready to work again after many years
in storage and both engines presented
a fine sight as they raised steam on an
unusually warm October morning next to
the pair of K7s.
All four engines were soon ready to
position themselves and their respective
ploughs into position to be ready to

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1915 built Fowler K7 ploughing engine
No. 14248 Sunset tows the six-furrow
plough into position.

Fowler K7 No. 14247 Sunrise

completes another pull with the
6 furrow plough.

▲ Fowler BB1 No. 15170 Princess Caroline with the plough at ▲ Fowler BB1 No. 15170 Princess Caroline as the plough starts
the top of the field another trip down the field

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► Fowler BB1s Nos. 15170 and 15171
Princess Caroline and Princess Jayne of
1918 whistle to bring to an end a lovely
day at Stotfold Mill.
▲ Fowler BB1 No. 15170 Princess
Caroline working hard to pull the plough
up the hill.
▲ A meeting of two Fowler counter-
balance ploughs at Stotfold.
▲ Last light of the day as the two Fowler
BB1s head back to Stotfold village after
a great day’s ploughing.
plough. After some brief instruction from
the Saunders team‘s Chris and Andy,
Scott took his new purchases for a run
around the field.
The two BB1s were paired with a
1921 Fowler four-furrow anti-balance
plough, also purchased by Scott from
the Vernon sale.
Once Scott has got both the BB1s
over to his Wichita, Kansas yard in
the States he intends to re-boiler and
box both engines. He is intending to
get both boilers fabricated in India
by a company he has used previously
for some of his North American
engines. To start the process two
representatives from Thermal Engitech
PVT accompanied John on his visit to
the UK.
▲ Fowler BB1 No. 15171 Princess Jayne takes a Fowler four-furrow plough up the
hill at Stotfold Mill.
Chintan Parmar, a director of
Thermal Engitech, explained that the
company is one of India’s leading
suppliers of industrial steam boilers
and heating equipment. Their primary
customers are chemical plants,
distilleries, textiles mills and other
industrial units. The factory is based
in one of the centres of Indian textile
production, Ahmedabad in Gujarat
state. They have been producing full-
size traction engine boilers for Scott for
a number of years now. The boilers are
of all welded construction and feature
replica rivets to simulate the original
appearance of the boilers.
It will be most interesting to follow
the progress on this project when the
boilers have been delivered. Both the
team from India and Scott and Jennifer
enjoyed a superb day ploughing at
Stotfold with all four engines performing
faultlessly all day.
With both the K7s and the BB1s on
the plough, the sound of hard-working
engines and steam whistles rang out
across the fields on a beautiful autumn
day.
At the end of a most successful day
both pairs of engines headed off into
Stotfold village and some well-earned
rest for the crews and the engines.
I look forward to providing pictures
of the restoration as it goes on and
also look forward to seeing the BB1s
working hard on the prairies of Kansas
with Scott and Jennifer as the Fowlers
start their new life over in the USA. OG
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 N EEvents
WS &
AVELING CHANGES HANDS
T
hey were made an offer they could
not refuse. Damon Holah from
Southborough, Kent and his brother
have sold their ex-Peter Williams, Stuart
Grey 1920 Aveling & Porter KND 6 ton
▲ Seen on 30 August 2009 is Aveling &
Porter No. 9225 Clementine which was
reboxed by Bob Bicknell in 1986.
Photo: Bob Moorman
HORNSBY MOVES TO KENT
E
arly in the summer Richard
Willcox sold his superb 1878
Hornsby 4hp No. 3444 which
he has hardly rallied for three
decades. It was one of the stars at
the 1990 Stourpaine Bushes Great
Dorset Steam Fair and we see the
engine on 1 September that year
at the show. The engine has been
fully recommissioned by Allison
▲ Showing the unique design to a
certain extent of the Richard Hornsby
& Sons portable made at Spittlegate
Ironworks, Grantham at Tarrant Hinton
on 31 August 1995.
Photo: Bob Moorman
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tractor No. 9225 CJ4160 Clementine
to Lincolnshire. The new owner has fitted
the tubes and carried out the other small
repairs and has already had the engine
in steam.
▲ Damon on board Clementine. He is
now to concentrate on his 4in Foster.
Photo: Bob Moorman
Engineering and has been in steam
a number of times already. These
pioneering portables were classed
▲ Looking good at Stourpaine Bushes in 1990 is Hornsby No. 3444.
Photo: Bob Moorman
COMPLETE NARROW
GAUGE RAILWAY
FOR SALE
J
ohn Blanchard (86) has
decided to sell his extensive
one-mile quarry railway system
all as one. It’s made up of 30-60lb
rail, bridges and turntable. There
are four diesel railway locos from
Hunslet, Ruston and Grangesberg
plus two closed carriages, two
people carriers and a brake van.
There are numerous wagons of
different descriptions including a
lowloader, Hudson ballast bogie
and others. There is a massive
back-up from stores, machine tools,
cranes and more. It is all based
in the West Country. Please get
in touch with the editor for more
details: peterlove@madasafish.com
as the best in the early days of steam
power, they were sold all over the
world and were very reliable.
EDDIE FOX’S ROBEY ARRIVES
▲ In steam, ready for Eddie to drive
after the engine recently arrived in the
UK from the Republic of Ireland.
Photo: Mark H Hughes
TENDER FITTED
O
ld Glory was recently invited
to see the latest progress on
Swanley, the 1909 Burrell
8hp three-speed road locomotive No.
3131 in Kent. The tender, made by
Sam Henwood, is all fitted now and
painted. The brake gear is nearly there
with Dave Main’s involvement and
parts from Henwood and castings from
Ragsdale's, machined up by Brian
Hope. The crankshaft is in place and the
new pistons and rods have been made
by Brian Hope and are to be peened
over by Michael Lugg by the time you
have read this. The motion has new big
ends as well. The objective is to have
the engine back in steam in late spring
2024. A new second gear is to be
made during the winter.
▲ All machined out, the brake wheel
and new handle. Photo: Mark H Hughes
▲ L-R: Chris Rose James Allison, Eddie
Fox and Brian Allison with Robey No.
33348 which is to have a refresh for the
2024 season. Photo: Mark H Hughes
N
ewly arrived in the UK in early
autumn is 1916 Robey 6hp
traction engine No. 33348 Z200
that was new to the Sally family of
Enniskerry, County Wicklow. They sold it
on after just a few months of ownership
to Henry J Fox, who used the engine until
the 1950s when it was replaced by a
Field Marshall Series 2.
The engine was one of the first
engines to rally in Republic of Ireland
▲ The mighty tender is all on the engine
and has a good number of coats of paint
on it now. Photo: Mark H Hughes
▲ Looking good, ▲ The final drive
one of the new big gear which John
end bearings. Naylor had
Photo: Mark H reinforced. Photo:
Hughes Mark H Hughes
▲ Eddie and James take the engine out
for the final time before it comes off the
road. Photo: Mark H Hughes
in the 1960s, still in the Fox family's
ownership. It was tsold to Dave Davis
who rallied it for 20 years from his base
at Tavistock, Devon, before Eddie Fox
brought the engine back to his family
ownership and has rallied it in the
Republic for a number of years now.
The Robey is due its ten-year hydraulic
test and a re-tube, repaint and a
regulator valve modification which is to
be carried out at Allison Engineering.
▲ The new piston rods and pistons
awaiting the new rings.
Photo: Mark H Hughes
▲ The brake gear pivot arms are ready
to go. Photo: Mark H Hughes
▲ The crankshaft is in place on its new
bearings. Photo: Mark H Hughes
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ROLLER CHANGES HANDS

S
een out in new ownership on
Sunday 8 October at the Royal
Hill at Edgerley on the banks of
the River Severn is Charlie Brown’s
new purchase, 1921 Aveling &
Porter D class compound 8 ton road
roller No. 10072 Achilles. Charlie
is a potato farmer and a keen
vintage aircraft preservationist. He
was assisted on the trip out by Fox
Bebbington.
The roller was supplied new to
Bridgewater RDC then to Somerset
County Council as fleet No.50. In
1963 it was sold to Buncombes who
later sold it on into preservation.
The engine has had a raft of owners ▲ Looking good and in new ownership ▲ The engine is presented in a very
since. Old Glory wishes Charlie every is Aveling & Porter No. 10072. Photo: clean style, typical of council rollers in
success with his new purchase. Reuben Carter the 1920-30s era. Photo: Reuben Carter

HCVS LONDON TO BRIGHTON RUN BACK ON!

G
ood news, but well-known
for some time, the Historic
Commercial Vehicle Society’s
2024 London to Brighton Run is back,
on Sunday 12 May 2024, and the big
news is the start will be at Brooklands
Museum, Weybridge, which is an ideal
starting venue. It has every facility you
can think of and watching the vehicles
leave the award-winning Museum is well ▲ It will be great to see veteran, vintage
worth enjoying to the full. Remembering and classic commercials back on the ▲ The Gosling’s Dennis 3-ton subvention
it is not in the Mayor of London’s LEZ roads of Surrey and Sussex again in lorry is nothing but special these days.
zone. Further details as they emerge. 2024. Photo: Peter Love Photo: Peter Love

RANSOMES SWEPT AWAY!

T
here is a museum at Villersorp on the
Western Cape of South Africa and
to draw attention to the museum a
Ransomes Sims & Jefferies portable stood
by the road attracting people's attention
as they drove by. Wilfred Mole says
that due to climate change and massive
excess rainfall in the area recently severe
flooding occurred which unfortunately
swept the engine away, never to be seen
again...

▲ The engine didn’t just sit there, it was

▲ The engine is starting to slip away as ▲ She is gone! Help! literally swept away never to be seen
the river bank has collapsed. again!

14 | DECEMBER 2023 OLD GLORY

FERMANAGH RAILWAY HERITAGE VOLUNTEERS
CELEBRATE SILVER JUBILEE
T
he silver jubilee of the Fermanagh
Railway Heritage Volunteers was
celebrated in style on Tuesday
20 August, when Heritage Railway
Association president, Lord Faulkner of
Worcester, visited Headhunters Railway
Museum and Barbershop in Enniskillen,
writes Hugh Dougherty. The premises,
which uniquely combine haircuts with
railway heritage, are home to a unique
collection of artefacts relating to the
Great Northern Railway of Ireland,
the Sligo Leitrim & Northern Counties
Railway and the Clogher Valley Railway.
Selwyn Johnston, one of the group’s
founder members, welcomed Lord
Faulkner to the museum, which is a
member of the HRA, and took him
on a tour of the exhibits. The museum
was runner-up in the HRA’s awards
outstanding railway attraction category.
Selwyn said: “After the foundation
of the group, which includes railway
enthusiasts and former railway staff,
we began to collect a considerable
number of relics of the GNR(1) and ▲ Ringing the changes at Headhunters: Lord Faulkner tries his hand at ringing the
SL&NCR lines which both closed through Enniskillen station platform bell as Selwyn Johnston looks on. Photo: Roy Crawford
Enniskillen on 30 September 1957.
We needed a museum to keep them museum’s latest acquisition, in the shape
safely and to make them available to of a large brass bell used by platform
the public and we were able to open in staff at Enniskillen station to alert
Headhunters on 30 September 2002, so passengers to the imminent departure
we’re also marking the 20th anniversary of their train. Like most of the items on
of the opening of the museum. We were display, the bell was donated by the
delighted to welcome Lord Faulkner to family of former railway staff.
the museum. He had been with us in Lord Faulkner said: “Headhunters
2017 to present the group, which is does a wonderful job in keeping alive
a registered charity, with the Queen’s the memory of the many railways in and
Award for| Voluntary Service, and was around Enniskillen and the part they
pleasantly surprised to see how the played in the region’s economy. I often ▲ Lord Faulkner meets one of the
museum has grown and improved in the advise my HRA colleagues to visit this ‘passengers’ and the material publicising
last five years.” unique and important railway museum, the museum’s role in European Heritage
Lord Faulkner was invited to ring the and I wish it well for the future.” Week. Photo: Roy Crawford

SEVAC TO HOST NATIONAL

T
he South Eastern Vintage Tractor
Club will be hosting the 2024
National Vintage Tractor Road Run
on 31 March 2024.
For those of you who are not familiar
with the NVTRR it is a charity road run of
around 300 vintage tractors with many
entrants attending not just from the local
area, but from across the UK. The run
takes place every year on Easter Sunday
and in 2023 took place at Dumfries &
Galloway, hosted by Glenluce Vintage
Tractor Club at Kirkland Airfield,
Stranraer.
Preparations for the 2024 run are
well underway and a sub-committee,
co-chaired by Will Cranfield and
John Parnaby, have already secured
a headline sponsor in McCormick
Tractors, created publicity material
and printed entry forms. They are
planning an evening meal and live band
entertainment for the Saturday night
and are in the process of registering the
grand prize draw of Sussex hampers
and other prizes.
The run will start at Plumpton College
in the South Downs National Park and
aims to show the rest of the vintage
tractor community what Sussex and
most importantly SEVAC has to offer.
The chosen charity is Patchwork Farm at
Chailey Heritage Foundation. Patchwork
Farm is entirely funded through donation
and allows the young people of Chailey
Heritage Foundation to have hands-on,
multi-sensory engagement with a number
of animals.
The organiser says: “We hope to have
as many members, friends and anyone
else involved in the run as possible
whether it be taking part, marshalling,
or popping down for the Saturday
evening meal and live band. Please visit
nvtrr2024.co.uk for more information.

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SAUGHTREE STATION- AND TRAIN(!) FOR SALE

S
aughtree Station, complete with
track, working diesel locomotive,
two British Railways tube wagons
and a brake van, is up for sale for
£500,000. And current owner, Geoff
Mann, who bought the then-semi-derelict
station in 1989 and restored and
extended it, would like to see it bought
by someone who would keep the train
wheels turning.
▲
The station - pronounced Sawtree -
lies in remote countryside, just over the
Scottish border, on the erstwhile Border
Counties Railway which connected
Hexham with Riccarton Junction on the
Waverley Route, and operates as a bed-
and-breakfast with a railway theme. The
Border Counties Railway, which was
operated by the North British Railway,
opened throughout in 1962, closed to
passengers in 1956 and to all traffic in
1958.
Londoner and life-long railway
enthusiast Geoff said: “My late wife
Meg and I extended the station ▲ Meg of Saughtree at the head of her train at the station, with a period crane on
accommodation and decided that if we the platform. Photo: courtesy Savills
had a station, then we needed some
track. I knew the late Bill McAlpine
well, and I asked him for help. He put
me in touch with Les Prothero who had
built Bill’s railway at Fawley Hill, and
he came to lay our 200 metres of track,
with the help of family and friends. Once
we had the track down, we decided
we needed a train, and our brake van
came from Chesterton Junction. We
followed that up with our Ruston shunter
and two pipe wagons which had been
at Manchester Piccadilly Station, and
our train was complete. We have a
head shunt, points, a siding and an ex-
Caledonian Railway lattice-post signal,
even though this was North British
Railway line! We run the train regularly
and people come to see it in action by
invitation. Most weekends in the summer,
groups of enthusiasts seek us out to see
what is probably Scotland’s shortest
operating private heritage railway.”
Geoff acquired the locomotive, ▲ The station house and buildings from above, showing the period cut-stone station
named Meg of Saughtree in memory and its remote location. Photo: courtesy Savills
of his late wife, from the Humberside
Locomotive Preservation Group, after extended station house has been run as Geoff quipped: “Maybe Nicola Sturgeon
it had spent its career on industrial a successful bed & breakfast business, might buy the station. Not only would
duties in and around Hull. As delivered with a railway theme, by Geoff’s son she have a retreat as far away from
to Saughtree in 1996, it was non- and his wife. Now, they feel that the crowds and media attention as she could
working, but by a lucky chance, Meg time is right to move on, while Geoff, get, but she’d have her own working
had a relative who had been a fitter at 85, feels that he has completed the railway, too!”
with Ruston, and he restored the engine Saughtree railway project and wants Full details of the property are at
to working order. “It’s worked perfectly to see it go into safe hands as a lasting www.savills.com or phone Andrew
ever since,” said Geoff. piece of Borders railway heritage. Thomson at the company’s Edinburgh
In recent years, the six-bedroom Commenting on who might buy it, office on 0131 247 3738

16 | DECEMBER 2023 OLD GLORY

AMBERLEY ACQUIRES UNIQUE SOUTHDOWN BUS
O
n Thursday 13 April 2023
Amberley Museum took delivery
of a unique 1929 Leyland Titan
TD1 bus, recently acquired by The
Southdown Omnibus Trust Collection.
The historically important bus has joined
the fleet within the collection at Amberley
Museum from Stagecoach where, until
recently, the bus had been preserved as
part of their Heritage Fleet.
Leyland Titan TD1 (number plate
UF 4813) was new to the Southdown
Motor Services in the summer of 1929.
The bus came to Stagecoach following
their acquisition of the successors to
Southdown Motor Services. Amberley
Museum are delighted to welcome UF
4813 into the fleet collection.
This bus has been a regular sight
on the roads of Hampshire and Sussex
for many years and a regular visitor
to events and rallies in the south of
England, including the Goodwood
Revival meeting. It now joins the Trust’s
other vehicles housed at Amberley
Museum where it will be preserved.
UF 4813 will be arriving at Amberley
Museum later in the year after some
maintenance work is completed and new
parts are fitted to the front wheels.

ABOUT UF 4813
U
F 4813 dates from 1929
and was originally number
813 in Southdown’s fleet of
buses. The chassis is a Leyland
TD1 fitted with an open-top
double-deck body by Brush of
Loughborough. It is a historically
significant vehicle being one of
the first buses built on a specially
designed low chassis, enabling
passengers to board via a
platform that is much lower than
had previously been available.
This feature became part of British
double-deck bus design right ▲ And then two come at once! Leyland Titan UF 4813 with Amberley resident
through until the mid 1960s. Leyland CD 5125.
The bus is a unique survivor
of its type. It carries Southdown’s of seven other former Southdown Museum events. You can find out
traditional apple green and buses dating from 1914 to 1937, more about upcoming events at
primrose yellow livery adorned which the public can see at Amberley Amberley Museum here: https://
with period advertisements. Museum and ride on at the annual www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/
UF 4813 joins the trust’s fleet bus shows and some special whats-on/

RESTORED COAL Ipswich Transport Museum’s

LORRY LAUNCH newly restored Morrison

coal lorry as it would have
looked over 70 years ago

I
pswich Transport Museum formally
unveiled its newly restored Morrison coal – a fine restoration by Leo
lorry at the Museum's Old Trolleybus Brome and his team.
Depot in Cobham Road. The battery electric
coal lorry was new to Ipswich Co-Op in
Derby Road depot in 1951, and was used
for door-to-door domestic coal deliveries for
thirty years. It was donated to the museum
in derelict condition in the early 1980s,
and has been restored to working order
by a loyal group of volunteers, led by Leo
Brome, over the last five years.
Much of the original vehicle has
survived, including some of the original
paintwork and signwriting. The electrical
system had to be completely rebuilt, the
motor overhauled, and £15,000 worth of Museum chairman Mark Smith electric motor and can carry a full load of
new batteries installed - the later assisted by explained; “We are delighted to see 1cwt sacks double stacked at 10mph. Leo
many 'battery benefactors' who visited the another restoration complete. We believe Brome added; “We're looking forward to
museum and contributed to the restoration this is the only working battery electric showing it off. We hope vistors will come
fund. The project was also assisted by a coal lorry in the UK at the present time.” and meet the restoration team, and enjoy
donation from the Association of Industrial The vehicle is powered by 40 2V lead watching us explain what we did, and how
Archaeology. acid batteries feeding a 19hp refurbished the vehicle works

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THE SANDSTONE STEAM RAILWAY IN SOUTH AFRICA EXTENDS ITS LINE
▲ A map of the Sandstone Steam
Railway with the new extension to
Sekonyela.
A
fter the Stars of Sandstone
2019 event the famous
mountain section, with its
double-headed NGG16 Garratt-
hauled trains, had suffered major
damage from the inclement weather
of that year. The line was in need
of major repairs. The very nature of
the terrain and ongoing changing
weather patterns meant there was no
guarantee that similar damage would
not occur again. Towards the end of
2021 it was decided to lift the whole
loop and terminate the line at Vailima
Siding.
The loss of this exciting section
of 2ft narrow gauge railway will be
sorely felt by many Sandstone visitors,
particularly the many photographers
who filmed it and the few steam
drivers who demonstrated their skills in
driving trains around it.
However exciting news was to
emerge from this! A rail project that
had been shelved many years ago
came back into the future planning
of the railway. When the mountain
section was lifted 200 metres were
left in situ beyond Vailima Siding and
a view down that line looked straight
at an historic landmark of railway
photography in years gone by.
Sekonyela!
WEST LANCASHIRE LIGHT RAILWAY TRUST ATTENDS 10 DOWNING STREET
T
he West Lancashire Light
Railway Trust Chairman Michael
Spall attended a reception at
No.10 Downing Street, hosted by
the Minster of Charities Rt Hon Stuart
Andrew MP. The invitation to this
prestigious event was to celebrate
the heritage and community work
undertaken by the volunteers at
the heritage narrow gauge steam
18 | DECEMBER 2023 OLD GLORY
▲ During the last year of steam-hauled passenger trains in 1985, on the
Bloemfontein to Bethlehem line, a South African Railways Class 25NC 4-8-4
passes Vailima with what is now Sandstone Estates on the left. Sekonyela is in the
background. Photo: R L Bucher
Probably one of the most
photographed landmarks in South
Africa, Sekonyela was a magnet for
steam photographers in the heyday
of the Bloemfontein to Bethlehem
line when operated by the South
African Railways Class 25NC
4-8-4 locomotives. The numerous
photographs have led many to believe
that the strange shaped mountain in
the pictures was named Sekonyela,
but not so. The lineside location was
at the site of Sekonyela Station. The
mountain became Sekonyela as the
backdrop in thousands of photographs
but is correctly known by the locals as
Soutkop.
It is this area of Sandstone Estates
that includes the farm Sekonyela. With
railway located in Hesketh Bank,
Lancashire.
Michael Spall said; “it has
been a real honour to represent
the West Lancashire Light Railway
Trust and its volunteers alongside
other outstanding charities and
their leaders at this event. It was
particularly pleasing to hear the
Minister for Charities and the
a large amount of unused 2ft narrow
gauge track after the mountain section
was lifted it was decided to extend the
line in a westerly direction towards
Sekonyela, terminating with a run
around loop in the main portion of
Sekonyela Farm. Planning has begun
with construction to begin soon. The
line follows the old remaining piece
of the mountain section as far as the
sharp left, Horse Shoe Curve, here
the new line will now veer slightly to
the right half-way around the curve
and then swing further to the right
in a northerly direction and head
towards Sekonyela farm where it
will terminate, 4.3km from Vailima
Siding. Construction is expected to be
completed by the end of 2023.
Government recognises the fantastic
work and commitment given by the
many charities and their volunteers.
My personal thanks to Katherine
Fletcher MP for South Ribble for
arranging the invitation, being a
wonderful host and keen supporter of
our trust and its work. I now know a
little more about what’s behind that
famous door!”
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NEWS
1 C J Copner’s Bedford CF ice 2 1/43 Royal Mail Post Bus
cream van in 1/43 scale. represents a real vehicle operating Champ in 1/76 scale from
in Scotland in the late 1970s.
4 All new 1/76 scale Austin 5 1967 Volkswagen T1
K2Y Western Desert wartime Splitscreen camper in 1/76
ambulance. scale.
OXFORD DIECAST
A new livery of C J Copner’s ice cream
has been produced by Oxford Diecast on
their 1/43 scale Bedford CF ice cream van
[1], the fifth version of this popular model
to be issued, retailing at £19.95. Although
a traditional style white and pastel pink
livery, the ice cream business was started
by Chris Copner in 2009 in Abergavenny
in South Wales. The body of the van is by
Whitby Morrison and the model represents
a 1979, V-reg example. Make mine a 99!
The latest version of Oxford’s 1/43
Land Rover Series III SWB hardtop is an
attractive-looking Royal Mail Postbus [2],
also for £19.95. MFS 345P was one of a
batch of eleven such Land Rovers delivered
in 1975 and converted to PSVs at
Lockerbie, this one operating throughout its
working life on a route between Invergarry
and Kinlochourn in Scotland until it was
decommissioned in December 1981. It
did have the name Kingie mounted above
the front bumper, with the number plate
on the grille, as on the model, although
it’s a shame that the white GPO-spec wing
mirrors and bonnet-mounted spare wheel
weren’t added to the model.
Moving down to 1/76 scale, the
Austin Champ (officially the FV1801A ¼
ton Truck for military versions) has been
released as a Royal Army Service Corps
(RASC) Fire Service vehicle [3], selling
for £8.95. From 1870 to 1965 the RASC
provided logistical support to the army,
supplying, transporting and maintaining
vehicles, equipment and supplies, as well
as providing postal and courier services,
enabling the smooth operation of military
campaigns and supporting soldiers in the
20 | DECEMBER 2023 OLD GLORY
Mike Neale takes his monthly look at recently released
diecast and resin models of vans, ambulances, campers,
tractors, excavators and trucks in 1/32, 1/43, 1/76 and
1/87 scale.
3 RASC Fire Service Austin
Oxford Diecast.
6 Speciality Foods 1950
Chevrolet Advance Design panel
van in smaller 1/87 scale.
field. In 1965, it was amalgamated with
other units to form the Royal Corps of
Transport (RCT), later becoming the Royal
Logistic Corps (RLC).
A new casting that is sure to be well
received is the 1/76 scale World War
II-era Austin K2Y, or “Katy,” military
ambulance. The first issue is in the Western
Desert sand colour scheme [4], and sells
for £16.95. Austin built just over 13,000
of these at Longbridge between 1939-45,
fitted with an Austin six-cylinder 3462cc
D-Series engine with a four-speed gearbox,
and bodywork by Mann Egerton. They
accommodated 2/3 crew in the front and
up to 10 seated casualties or four stretchers
in the back. One of the most famous drivers
of an ATS Katy was of course the then
Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen. The
model shows the canvas doors rolled open.
The cute 1/76 Volkswagen T1
Splitscreen Camper has appeared in pearl
white over mouse grey in left-hand-drive
form [5], with a 1967 British registration,
with an RRP of £7.95. The louvred side
windows and tiny Volkswagen badge are
nice touches.
In the smaller 1/87 scale is the smart
black over cream 1950 Chevrolet Advance
Design panel van in Speciality Foods livery
[6], priced at £8.95. Produced from 1947-
55, the first vans had a 3.5-litre straight-
six engine, with a 3.9-litre straight-six
becoming available later. A three-speed
manual gearbox was standard, with a four-
speed manual or a four-speed automatic
also offered. The model has a New
Brunswick licence plate.
The models illustrated can be found on-
line and at various model shops, such as
MODEL AUCTION DATES DECEMBER 2023
4 Vintage Diecast, Tinplate, Model Trains & More, British Toy
Auctions – www.britishtoyauctions.co.uk, tel: 01928 579032.
8 Toys & Models, Sporting & Fishing auction, https://www.
tennants.co.uk/departments/toys-collectables/,
tel: 01969 623780.
15 Toys & Models, including live steam, diecast, tinplate and model
railways, Lacy Scott & Knight - https://www.lskauctioncentre.
co.uk/toys-collectors-models/, tel. 01284 748625.
TOYFAIRS DECEMBER 2023
2 Maidstone Vintage Toy Fair, Market Hall, Lock Meadow Car Park,
Baker Street, Maidstone, Kent ME16 8LW. 9am-3pm. http://
maidstonevintagetoyfair.co.uk/, tel: 01732 840787.
3 Shepton Mallet Toy Collectors Fair, Royal Bath & West
Showground, Castle Cary Road, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4
6QN. 10.30am-2.30pm. https://www.bulldogfairs.com/,
tel: 01373 452857.
3 Spalding, Springfields Events & Conference Centre, Camelgate,
Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE12, 6ET. 10am-2pm. J&J Fairs https://
sites.google.com/site/webbtoyfairs/calendar,
tel: 01522 880383.
10 Brecon Toy & Train Sale, The Market Hall, Town Centre, Brecon,
Powys LD3 7LG. 10.30am-2.30pm. https://www.chrisdyerfairs.
co.uk/, tel: 07966 694579.
10 Gateshead Toy, Train & Sci-Fi fair, Gateshead International
Stadium, Neilson Rd. Gateshead, Tyne & Wear NE10 0EF. 10am-
3pm. https://northerntoyfairs.com/, tel: 07504 035955.
10 Lincoln, The Exhibition Centre, Lincolnshire Showground,
Lincoln, LN2 2NA. 10am-2pm. J&J Fairs https://sites.google.
com/site/webbtoyfairs/calendar, tel: 01522 880383.
10 Orpington Toyfair, Crofton Halls, Station Rd, Orpington, Kent
BR6 8PR. 9.45am–1.15pm. http://www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk/,
tel: 07739 998012.
16 Herne Bay Toyfair, Herne Bay High School, Bullockstone Road,
Herne Bay, Kent CT6 7TL. 9.45am–1.15pm.
http://www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk/, tel: 07739 998012.
17 Ashington Vintage Toy & Train Collectors Fair, Ashington
Community Centre, Foster Lane, Ashington, West Sussex RH20
3PG. 9.30am–1pm. https://www.modeltoyauctions.co.uk/
news/, tel: 01424 846676 or 07742 609865.
17 Coventry Toyfair, The Connexion Leisure Club, Leamington Road,
Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Coventry, CV8 3FL. 10.30am-3pm. https://
www.bpfairs.com/, tel: 01604 846688.
27 Ditton Toyfair, Ditton Community Centre, Kiln Barn Road, Ditton,
Kent ME20 6AH. 9.45am–1.15pm. http://www.srptoyfairs1.
co.uk/, tel: 07739 998012.
27 Stafford Showground Toyfair, The Prestwood and Argyle
Centres, Stafford County Showground, Weston Road, Stafford, ST18
0BD. 10.30am-3pm. https://www.bpfairs.com/,
tel: 01604 846688.
28 Rayleigh Toyfair, Sweyne Park School, Sir Walter Raleigh Drive,
Rayleigh, Essex SS6 9BZ. 9.45am–1.15pm.
http://www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk/, tel: 07739 998012.
29 Bolton Stadium Toyfair, The Premier Suite, Burnden Way,
Horwich, Bolton, Lancashire, BL6 6JW. 10.30am-3pm.
https://www.bpfairs.com/, tel: 01604 846688.
30 Doncaster Racecourse Toyfair, Doncaster Exhibition Centre, Leger
Way, Doncaster, DN2 6BB. 10.30am-3pm.
https://www.bpfairs.com/, tel: 01604 846688.
Please check the websites or phone for up-to-date information and
times before travelling, in case of cancellations. If you would like us
to add your dates in Mike Neale’s diary, please contact the editor –
tel: 01323 833125 – peterlove@madasafish.com
Hattons (https://hattons.co.uk/), Sheffield
Transport Models (www.pufferwillies-stm.
co.uk/), Flâneur Automobilia (https://
flaneur.co.uk/), Jacksons Models (https://
www.jacksonsmodels.co.uk/), Scale Farm
(https://www.scalefarm.com/), Farm
Models (https://www.farm-models.co.uk/),
Brushwood Toys (https://brushwoodtoys.
co.uk/) or Diecast Legends (www.
diecastlegends.com/). See also Oxford
Diecast (https://oxforddiecast.co.uk/).
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MERRY CHRISTMAS BOOK REVIEWS!

I
t’s not always easy to find a
Christmas present that suits in
one way or another. Mike Neale
takes a look at a number of new
books that have shown up on the and from Flâneur Automotive
Old Glory radar that are available Literature & Automobilia,
this Christmas. Many of them can Freshwater, Isle of Wight (https://
be found in many good bookshops, flaneur.co.uk/)

HAMM - More than 100 years of road rollers from

Tirschenreuth
By Road Roller Association member Alfred Meyer.
German version published in 2021 by Podszun - Motorbüchen
Gmbh (www.podszun-verlag.de) An English language version is
now available.
A4, hard covers. 533 photos plus 85 ‘catalogue page’ illustrations.
ISBN 978-3-7516-1050-6. Price 39.90 Euros plus €16.61 shipping
to UK.
The German firm of Hamm in Bavaria was established there
in 1896 and has been producing motor rollers since 1911.
Perhaps, surprisingly, it never made a steam roller but continued in
production making probably hundreds of different types of rollers
to satisfy an ever-growing world-wide demand for them.
From 2017, the firm became a member of the global John
Deere ‘family’ but they still turn out their products in their own
famous orange livery. At their premises in 2014 a circuit was built
to test what might be considered to be the ultimate in rollers - an
autonomous version which is driver-less and can therefore operate
around the clock without supervision and which is consequently
extremely cost-effective.
Your reviewer doesn’t recall previously ever seeing a
publication with so many illustrations of rollers in it. The extremely
weighty tome (1.5Kg) therefore constitutes a comprehensive guide
to all the very many different types of roller which were produced
by Hamm over the years it has been in business. Rollers illustrated,
in small, medium and huge versions, along with some of their
technical details, range from conventional examples to articulated
versions, those with rubber tyres plus sheepsfoot rollers in several The cover of the new profusely illustrated book on
different styles; vibratory ones, tandems, trailer vibratory rollers Hamm motor rollers by Alfred Meyer.
and also triple-roll machines along with soil stabilisers.
Derek Rayner

County Donegal Railways Bus Services by Hugh Dougherty

Stenlake Publishing Ltd, 54-58 Mill Square, Catrine, Ayrshire, KA5 6RD, tel: 01290 551122. ISBN978-1-84033-954-3,
paperback, 240 x 175mm, .www.stenlake.co.uk Price £12.95 inc. postage from the publisher. 50 pages. Colour and
black & white photos.
Written by our well-known and excellent Scottish correspondent Hugh
Dougherty, who has connections to all things railways in Ireland. This fine
product has long been needed as so much has been written on the County
Donegal Railways, but not on the bus service. When the CDRJC reluctantly
replaced its trains with buses in 1960, it transformed itself from the largest and
best known Irish narrow gauge railway into a road transport organisation, but
one that thought it was still a railway!
They upheld the best railway traditions of a company that at that time was
jointly owned by BR Midland Region and Coras Iompair Eireann, but was
fiercely independent and very much part of the fabric of Donegal life. The story
covers the ‘red-and-cream’ era buses, their crews, the passengers and the almost
inevitable take-over by CIE in 1971. We found the book highly entertaining and
one that you won’t put down until you have got to the back cover.

22 | DECEMBER 2023 OLD GLORY

The Alan Thomas Collection: Volume 1 – Steam in Cornwall by The Titfield Thunderbolt:
Kevin Lean The story of a much-loved
West of England Steam Engine Society (www.weses.co.uk) softback, price film, by Simon Castens
£5.00 + £2 postage. The West of England Steam Engine Society via Jenny Wild Swan Books Ltd (https://
Thomas, 43 Aneray Road, Camborne, TR14 8UB (01209 716175). 60 pages. wildswanbooks.co.uk/), ISBN
Photographs all colour from the WESES’ late Alan Thomas collection. 978-1912038565, hardback,
The late Alan Thomas was a price £28.95. 192 pages. Photos
good friend of the editor since include those taken by Ealing
the 1970s and contributed Studios and local photographer
to many of his magazines. George Love Dafnis, as well
Alan was a fine club speaker as drawings, illustrations and
and did so much for steam in period colour artwork.
Cornwall, especially for the Fans of the 1953 Ealing
West of England Steam Engine Comedy, which starred Stanley
Society which his photographic Holloway and Sid James as
collection was left to. Jenny the ‘dodgy’ Aveling & Porter
Thomas still serves the Society steam roller crew and a steam
well as membership secretary locomotive named Lion built
and president. in 1838 for the Liverpool
Kevin Lean has spent over 800 hours working on the collection and & Manchester Railway, will
selecting the pictures for this publication. There is a clear bias towards the appreciate this detailed look
earlier pictures within the collection and there is a real variety within the at the how, when and where
makes and types of engines featured. 1969 would seem to be the year in of the making of the film. The
which Alan’s photography really took off and there are a number of images story centres on the inhabitants
featured here from the WESES Redruth rally that year. of a small English village who
Alan’s photographs have been little seen in the years since his untimely are about to lose their beloved
passing in 1999, so this publication of limited numbers aims to rectify railway branch line from Titfield
that omission and will hopefully have an appeal to a great many steam to Mallingford and decide to buy
enthusiasts. Let’s hope this is a start of a great series. it to operate themselves, putting
them at odds with the local bus
company, the latter (despite
having a rather nice Bedford
OB coach) using somewhat
underhand methods to ward off
Bedford Buses and Coaches, by Howard Berry the competition.
Amberley Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4456-7568-8, paperback, 165mm x The book by railway
235mm, price £15.99. 96 pages. 180 colour photos. enthusiast and director of Wild
The author has concentrated on the vehicles that he had first-hand Swan Books, Simon Castens,
experience of, covering those from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. These covers the man behind the film,
begin with the legendary Bedford VAL, launched in 1962 to take advantage T E B Clarke, the making of the
of the recently increased maximum PSV chassis dimensions in the UK of 36ft film, the people and personalities
long and 8ft 2½ins wide, with its involved, their anecdotes, the
entrance door ahead of the front locomotives and road vehicles
axle and twin-steer ‘Chinese Six’ used and the locations used for
arrangement, the type perhaps filming, including around Limpley
made most famous by a starring Stoke in Wiltshire and Monkton
role in The Italian Job film (and Combe in Somerset.
incidentally the only coach I have
ever driven).
The book goes onto cover the
shorter, fourwheel Bedford VAM
of 1965, fitted with a wide range
of different bodywork designs
by the likes of Alexander, Duple,
ECW, MCW, Plaxton, Strachan,
and Willowbrook. Later vehicles
include the 1970-launched YRQ
and the YRT of 1972, then their
replacements the YLQ and YMT
from 1974, the turbocharged
YNT that arrived in 1981, and
finally the Venturer that made its
debut in 1984, perhaps too late
to save the Bedford marque.

OLD GLORY DECEMBER 2023 | 23

 BOOKS

The Jowetts That Got Away, by Noel Stokoe

Fonthill Media Ltd. (www.fonthill.media), ISBN 978-1-78155-862-1, paperback, 165mm x 235mm, price £22. 150
pages. Colour and black & white photos.
This is the latest title written by renowned Jowett expert and author Noel Stokoe, following on
from his earlier books in the same series including The Jowett Bradford.
Vehicles covered include a striking boat-tailed two-seater Jackson Jowett of 1926, built
by coachbuilders Jacksons of Croydon, ‘Wait & See’ Jowetts built in the same year for Frank
Gray, the ex-MP for Oxford, to cross Africa, various sports cars and tourers of the 1920s and
30s, developments of sporting Jowett Jupiters in the 1950s, and a prototype Jowett tractor
built in 1942 fitted with a 1050cc version of the flat-twin 7hp engine. There was a strikingly
futuristic-looking design for a Jowett Javelin produced in 1943 by the famous abstract artist
and sculptor Naum Gabo, a Russian émigré working at the Design Research Unit in London.
Gerald Palmer, who designed the production Jowett Javelin with the director of Jowett
Cars, George Wansbrough, also developed a design for a rugged off-road vehicle intended
for use in developing countries as a rival to the Land Rover. One prototype of this slab-fronted
forward control ‘Yeoman’ was built in 1950, in which the driver sat in the centre, so there
was no need for separate left- and right-hand drive versions.
Perhaps the most interesting chapter for me is that on the proposed Jowett CD, developed
from 1951, which was intended to provide a complete range of models, saloon, estate car,
van and pick-up, using as many of the same body panels as possible. It is thought that fourteen prototypes were built,
one saloon, one pick-up, six vans and six estate cars by Briggs, plus the initial prototype built by Jowett themselves. I
attempted to track these down a few years ago for an article, as amazingly, a handful of them did survive. There are
three estates in New Zealand, one of which has been restored by Ray Winn and is on display in his museum there.
Another of the estates is believed to be left in the UK, but it has not been seen for many years and probably needs
complete restoration. Even if you are already familiar with Jowett cars and vans, this book will provide insight into
vehicles that you are unlikely to have seen before.

Royal and Ceremonial Land Rovers, by James Taylor Berliet Album, by Rod Ward
Amberley Publishing, ISBN 978-1-39811-381-7, paperback, Zeteo Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85482-186-8,
165mm x 235mm, price £15.99. 96 pages. 100 illustrations. paperback,150mm x 210mm, price £5.95. 31
James Taylor has explored the relationship between the Royal pages. Colour
family and their Land Rovers. Visitors to the 2023 Goodwood and black &
Revival may have seen a selection of the ceremonial Land white photos.
Rovers that were on display there, including one which was This ever-
up for auction, plus a convoy on the track to pay tribute to HM increasing
Queen Elizabeth II on the first anniversary of her death. The series of
first such vehicle was presented to King George VI in 1948, Auto Review
but it was the late Queen who became a great enthusiast of the compact
marque, conferring a Royal Warrant. monographs
The book includes the very first Series I State Review Land by Rod
Rover with a custom-designed rear platform used by the Queen Ward (this
and Duke of Edinburgh is No.187)
on a six-month tour of may be small
the Commonwealth. The and slim, but
second official ceremonial they pack
review vehicle was a Series in a lot of
II with blue sidelight lenses content. This
which were switched on one provides
whenever a Royal family a useful
member was on board. A overview of the wide range of vehicles
similar vehicle was built for produced by French manufacturer Berliet,
the Emperor of Ethiopia, established by Marius Berliet, from car No. 1 in
Haile Selassie, the only 1895 up until the disappearance of the name in
foreign ruler to have one. 1978 when then-owners Renault combined the
One I hadn’t seen before firm with Saviem. Not all that well-known in the
was the semi-forward UK, products included saloon cars, racing cars,
control Royal Shooting limousines, army lorries, tanks, pickups, trucks,
Brake. Later Defenders, diesel railcars, buses, trolleybuses and dumper
Range Rovers and even a trucks. They built the biggest truck in the world
Popemobile are included. in 1957.

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Hanomag Album, plus Henschel and Tempo, by Rod Ward
Zeteo Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85482-184-6, paperback, 1500m x 2100m, price £5.95.
31 pages. Colour and black & white photos.
Another vehicle manufacturer that is little-known in the UK is covered by Rod Ward in
this Auto Review monograph. Hanomag was originally a steam locomotive manufacturer
in Germany, which in 1905 took out a licence to build steam road vehicles and railcars,
then diversifying into tractors from 1912, before building motor cars from the 1920s.
Hanomag joined the Rheinstahl consortium in 1952, which acquired Henschel and
Tempo in 1964/65, these two firms also being covered by the book.
Henschel similarly began building steam locos, then moving to steam rollers and
heavy lorries, producing tanks and aircraft during the Second World War, returning to
commercial vehicles in the postwar era. Tempo were best known for their three-wheel
delivery vans, but also produced the Tempo Matador four-wheel 1-ton forward control
lorry, a small number of which were assembled by Jensen for sale in the UK from 1958-
63, but try finding one.

PS MEDWAY QUEEN FULL AHEAD EXTRA 2

From Richard Halton of the Medway Queen Preservation Society comes news of the Society’s latest publication.
The Full Ahead Extra series are booklets in the same format as the MQPS members’ magazine Full Ahead, but with
more pages and dealing with a single subject in detail. The first was published two years ago in 2021 and was titled
Life on Board. It contained first-hand accounts of life on board the ship when she was used on excursion service. Unlike
the regular quarterly magazine, the Extra booklets are available for sale to members and non-members alike at the very
modest charge of £3 per copy.
Our second Full Ahead Extra publication presents a detailed account of the construction and installation of the
starboard paddle box fascia. Written by Bob Wilde, who headed the team, and illustrated with photographs taken by
Bob and other workshop team members. It gives a very detailed account of this sub-project in the restoration of Medway
Queen. Full Ahead Extra 2 describes this ambitious construction in around 5300 words and with over 50 colour
photographs.
The booklets are in the same style and format as a regular Full Ahead, but have 28 pages instead of the usual 20.
Full Ahead Extras 1 and 2 are mainly illustrated with photos that we have not published before. This new publication is
available from the Medway Queen Visitor Centre when it is open on Saturdays, or by post via the online shop at www.
medwayqueen.co.uk.
If you are not online and want a copy of the booklet, send a cheque for £3 payable to “Medway Queen Preservation
Society” to Pam Bathurst at 37 Kent Road, Margate. CT9 3SW, together with an A5 stamped addressed envelope for
dispatch of the book. If you want more than one booklet, send a large letter stamp.

Fixing the new starboard fascia in position. Photo Jean Perry Front cover of the new Full Ahead
Extra 2 shows the work in progress.

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MINIATURE HISTORY stationary engine was fitted and the

Dear Editor
In the May edition of Old Glory
you mention the freelance miniature
Eskdale, seen during a visit by the
RRA as part of their AGM. You might
be interested in the early history of
this engine,
Eskdale, originally named
Winifred, was constructed by the
late Tom Fisher, an engineer living in
Reading. Shortly after WW2 he found
a brand new boiler that had been
built for a customer who then did not
collect it. The cylinder from a small
first steaming of the complete engine
took place in 1948.
Being licensed for the road, in
1951 Winifred was driven from
Reading to Littlewick Green where
it attended a local fete. This was a
round trip of about 18 miles. At the
first Appleford traction engine rally
it led the parade along the road. A young John Smith gets to grips with
In 1959 Bob Hammant became Winifred back in 1951.
the new owner and Winifred was
often displayed in the showroom of Winifred was in August1951 - see
Hammant’s Garage in Woodlands photo!
Park. I drove it there several times
although my first encounter with John Smith

SSEC ROAD RUN BRINGS BACK MEMORIES

NOT LIKE THAT!
Dear Editor
Dear Editor Interesting to see that the
The clearly thoroughly well-researched article route for the SSEC 30th
by Zack Stiling on the much-campaigned anniversary road run
Dennis double-decker ex-pirate operated passed by where once
bus contains a picture of a volunteer leaning stood the premises of James
forward, arms outstretched, as if to attempt to French & Sons.
start the engine by pushing downwards on to I’ve attached two
the starting handle with all of his upper body photographs, the first of
weight and strength. To try to start such an which is not of the greatest
engine with nearly 1.5 litres per cylinder in quality I’m afraid.
such a way would be to invite serious injury. With your expertise and The unidentified Fowler at the time of
The reference to the “snatching” method RLS records, can you further French & Sons’ dispersal sale.
of hand starting has been completely identify the Fowler. Sadly,
misunderstood by the caption-writer here, it’s seen here on the day of the Plumpton business dispersal sale, held in
“snatch” relates eponymously to “pull,” not a field close by the road run’s route.
“push.” Pulling involves wrapping a stout rope
around the handle with enough free length at David French
the other end to have two or three operators via e-mail
holding that end and pulling the engine over
compression, whilst standing clear of the front Many thanks David, the Tasker is No. T1431 of 1910, ex-French
wing. If the engine should “kick back” the & Sons, sold to S French then later to J Rowland of St Austell and
worst that can happen will be that the rope is scrapped. The Fowler is more difficult, you will have to try and read the
pulled out of their hands or that they be pulled registration please as it’s an early engine. It is most likely AP9253 No.
harmlessly forward with nothing in the way. 4591, an 8hp single which would have been built in 1884 and classed
In the picture, if the engine should kick back as a road locomotive. The engine in the picture has a Salter safety
it would be quite possible for our volunteer valve and loads of other features and it could be No. 4591. Ed.
have the returning handle dislocate one or both
of his shoulders due to his arms being held
rigid against the returning pushing force, and/ Tasker No. T1431 poses
or have the handle strike him across the chest. for the camera.
Elsewhere in the text, snatching is correctly
described as pulling up the handle through
180 degrees if one operator is working alone,
not trying to push it down as in the picture.

Nigel Stennett-Cox
via -e-mail

28 | DECEMBER 2023 OLD GLORY

Peter Love, Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill,
Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL Tel: 01323 833125 peterlove@madasafish.com Letters
AVELING BARFORD GRADERS

Dear Editor
Thank you to Keith Haddock for his
fascinating article on “Big Graders”
in the June 2023 magazine. So
often graders, of all sizes, are
the unsung workhorses of the
construction industry. We see very
few of them at work in the UK but
worldwide they are the machines
that keep millions of miles of dirt,
gravel and ice roads, passable.
My only small criticism of Keith’s
otherwise comprehensive rundown of
manufacturers, was the passing nod
to Aveling Barford, whose Austen-
designed graders, produced in the
UK, were the backbone of road and
rail communications all over the
world but particularly around the
Commonwealth.
Maybe topping out at around 21
tons doesn’t place AB in the league of
‘big’ but my own experience, driving
them in the New Zealand mountains,
did show that in one small corner of
the world they did - still do - lay claim
to a few extra horsepower. For two
southern winters (89/90) my wife
and I worked at Mount Dobson for
Peter and Shirley Foote, the pioneers
of that skifield. Now, sadly Shirley
is no longer with us but Pete and his
The photos show the superficial signs of their 40-plus years of life on a mountain
but I can guarantee that these two graders will soon be hard at work again, as
the New Zealand winter sets in.
sons continue to operate the country’s
last family-owned ski area.
There was never any question that
the graders best suited to maintaining
the twelve-mile unsealed access road,
up the 5000ft high car parks, would
have to be Aveling Barfords. All-
wheel drive was essential, as were
the driven front axles, needed to push
against the 30-degree front snow
plough blades. Only problem was the
already moderately powered original
engines soon ran out of puff working
at those altitudes.
With old-fashioned Kiwi ingenuity
and skill, the graders were re-engined
with a Perkins V8 in one and similar
Mercedes unit in the other. Now,
instead of only working downhill,
they happily push both blades all the
way back up again.
To be honest, I don’t think I have
ever bettered the experience of
seeing fresh snow pouring from the
blades and over the 1000-foot drop
off the road, accompanied by the
bark of the twin V8 exhausts. Arriving
at the top with a long tail of vehicles
full of skiers ready to enjoy their day,
was the best payback for the 4am
starts.
My reward? Some thirty plus years
later, the Foote family still refer to the
yellow grader as ‘mine’!
Happy memories!
Jonathan &Sally Batchelor
via e-mail

SPOTTED ON THASSOS
HELP WANTED!
Dear Editor
I was on holiday on the Greek island of Thassos a few Dear Editor
weeks ago when I couldn’t help but see a Ruston Bucyrus I am writing on behalf
crane. I took a photo of it which is enclosed. of Nottingham Industrial
Museum and I was
Chris Bower wondering if one or two
via e-mail of your older readers can
help. We have a steam-
driven dynamo which was
manufactured by Seimens,
probably in WW2, and
we do run the machine
under steam although we
are a bit wary of running
at full speed. So we run at
just enough speed to wake
the dyno up and it starts
to generate. The question I
would really like answered
is this: what is the purpose
of the handwheel adjacent
to the commutator which
seems to vary the position
of the brushes on the
comm. We think it should
vary the output voltage but
that is only an educated
guess. Can anyone advise
please? Details of the
generator are as follows:
Seimens Bros.
Type320/H25HC
100kW
220v
455amp
473/450rpm
Here’s hoping someone
out there knows, and
can advise. Thank you in
anticipation,
Ian Russell.
via e-mail

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219 .98
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• WAS £147.59 inc.VAT CIR18LIC RED, BLUE, GREY, SILVER
KG
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£
189EXC.
.98
£227.98 inc.VAT
CHESTS/CABINETS
IN STOCK
Inc. hook & loop Range of precision
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£119.94 inc.VAT
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£54.99 £65.99
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£
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DOUBLE
EXC.VAT
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59exc.VAT
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OR WOODEN WORKTOPS
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An excellent crowd was
seen at the Midlands Model
Engineering Exhibition at the
Warwickshire Event Centre.

CROWDS FLOCK TO MIDLANDS

MODEL ENGINEERING EXHIBITION
Certainly back to its best was the 2023 Midlands Model Engineering
Exhibition held on 12-15 October at the Warwickshire Event Centre,
Leamington Spa. The editor called in for a few hours on Thursday lunchtime
where a huge crowd was seen at this traditional four-day event.

T
here was an excellent selection of
models on the many club stands
and a very good selection of traders
here doing good business. When I
was at the show Home And Workshop
from Sidcup, Kent were certainly the
busiest with a huge stock of just about
everything.
Another very busy stand was
Stuart Models, which we recommend
especially if you are new to the hobby
and want to take up model engineering.
I ended up buying a set of fine lining
paint brushes from Brushes 4 Models,
which were reasonably priced. Others
here were Walker Midgley Insurance
to Tracy Tools, the place to buy the rare
thread taps and dies.
The Society of Model & Experimental
Engineers was celebrating its 125th
anniversary and there were workshop
demonstrations taking place on the
stand by Ralph Thompson, John Florentin
and Terry Menham, while Neil Wyatt
was giving demonstrations of 3D resin
printing.
You couldn’t miss the special display
of the late John Wilk’s 10¼in LNER
2-8-2 Cock O’ North - it was just
stunning and was of course Gresley’s
most advanced three-cylinder passenger
locomotive. Seen in its semi-streamlined
guise the engine features Lentz poppet
valves, Kylchap exhaust and ACFI
feedwater heater. It was a credit to its
builder who died in November 2022.
The engine resides at the amazing
Stapleford Miniature Railway and is
a must to see in action. Not far away
was the amazing Meccano LNER
4472 Flying Scotsman with its two
Pullman coaches celebrating the 100th
anniversary of the model. In fact the
locomotive and stock is for sale.
There was a good display of road
engine models here, inside and out with
Dennis Lambe’s 1½in Allchin Royal
Chester display traction engine taking
an award along with Les and Sue Riley’s
in steam 4in McLaren road locomotive
Maud, while Luke Crowther’s 4in Burrell
traction engine The Apprentice took
another award.
We loved the 6in Fowler/Allen single
ploughing engine FX06VJG of Simon
Preston on the Model Steam Road
Vehicle Society’s stand, and on another
stand the 2in Brown & May single-
cylinder tractor which would not take
much to finish off quite frankly having
been an on-going 20-plus year project.
As for track models, my favourite was
Daniel Floyd’s 10¼in ex-Great Central
Railway 1901 Robinson design (later
LNER J11) 5ft 1in wheeled 0-6-0 No.
64356 ‘PomPom.’ Some 174 of the
full-size engines were made which lasted
until 1961. No. 64356 was fitted with a
superheated boiler in 1915 and lasted
until 1955.
Mike Sayers British Grand Prix
wining 1927 Delage 15.S.8 engine
was rightly a major winner here, but
John Luscott’s 1.3in scale BSA Gold
Star DBD34 single-cylinder 500cc was
something else. In 1956 when the
DBD34 was introduced it dominated its
class at the Manx Grand Prix and was
capable of 110mph.
All in all a great show which was
held in a friendly atmosphere. OG

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▲ The MJ Design 2in Burrell Gold Medal single-cylinder
traction engine built by Stephen Harrison. Stephen says the
engine is not a runner and needs further work for this to
happen.
▲ John Luscott’s 1.3in scale BSA Gold Star DBD34 single-
cylinder 500cc was scratch-built and is amazing. In 1956 when
the model was introduced it dominated its class at the Manx
Grand Prix and was capable of 110mph.
▲ Damon Holah of Home and Workshop was kept very, very
busy during the show’s duration.
▲ Derek Morris’ Fowler 200 gallon water cart was good to
see and looked the part.
▲ What a stunner! The unusual to see Daniel Floyd’s 10.25in
ex-Great Central Railway 1901 Robinson design (later LNER
J11) 5ft 1in wheeled 0-6-0 No. 64356. Some 174 were built
and some of the class lasted until 1961 and were known
as ‘PomPom’s.’ This particular engine was fitted with a
superheated boiler in 1915 and lasted until 1955.
▲ Mamod Steam Models were here at the show with
traditional and new live steam models.
▲ This Meccano model of the Flip-Flap ride is something else
on the Midlands Meccano Club stand.
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▲ Richard Betts’ 4in Garrett single-
cylinder traction engine under
construction.
▲ The 1990s-built Sheldon tandem
compound launch engine was to the
design of David Piddington and this
example was completed to a high
standard by John Bertinat. The engine
was a development of the earlier
Commander compound launch engine.
▲ Dennis Lambe’s Bill Hughes-designed
1.5in Allchin Royal Chester was very well
detailed and upheld this still popular
pioneering traction engine model.
▲ The Aveling Barford 8 ton roller of D
& H Smith was a new one to us.
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▲ LNER fan David White exhibited this fascinating and rare spirit-fired 1930s 3½in
model of LNER B17 ‘Sandringham’ class 4-6-0 East Anglia. Some 73 were built but
only two were streamlined, Nos. 2859/2870; the streamlining was removed in April
1951. This class were rough riders and were known for breaking their frames.
▲ Wow! The Allen Fowler single-cylinder
ploughing engine in 4in scale of Simon
Preston.
▲ P Redfearn’s 6in Savage Little Samson
was another that looked very fine.
▲ It was great to see Les and Sue Riley’s
4in McLaren road locomotive Maud
and Tony Baldwin’s lovely 4in Foster ▲ Wow! The 2in Brown & May of
compound Shirley B. Devizes single-cylinder tractor that’s
based on the example that lives in New
Zealand today still needs more work to
see it finished off. It was started over
30 years ago now by a now-deceased
quality engineer and has since been
developed further.
◄ Chris and Ian Clipston’s 4½in Foden
tractor unit called Penny.

▲ Lew is a 7¼in model of the narrow gauge Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Manning
Wardle 2-6-2 side tank and looked a delight. The model has recently been
recommissioned with new boiler tubes, valve-gear and chassis overhaul and a total
repaint and is owned by PNP today. It was all part of the City of Oxford SME stand,
which was very popular.
COMPETITION RESULTS
CLASS 2: LOCOMOTIVES –
2½ - 3½in gauges (On SMEE Stand)
1-Peter Wardropper, 3½in 2-2-2
locomotive ‘Jenny Lind’, based on
LBSC’s design with additional details
from works drawings.
2- Peter Wardropper, 3½in gauge
2-6-2 locomotive ‘River Darenth’, built
to LBSC’s ‘Betty’ design.
CLASS 3: LOCOMOTIVES –
5-7¼in gauges and above Lower Hall,
marquee side
1- Bruce William Harvey, 7¼in Gauge
Society 0-6-2T locomotive, LNER class
N2 No. 69580.
2- Ian Arthur Hunt, BR Britannia 4-6-2
class locomotive ‘Firth of Tay’ built as
running in 1961 with a BR 1D tender.
3- Alan Crossfield, 5in GWR 57xx
class 0-6-0 pannier tank locomotive
No. 7713, built as running in the late
1950s.
Highly Commended: Neil Madden,
7¼in 2-6-4 BR class 4 tank
locomotive.
CLASS 4: ROLLING STOCK
Any gauge, near main entrance
1- Guy Harding, A pair of 5in APOC
heavy oil tankers.
2-Guy Harding, London Transport
brake van.
3-Adrian Morris, LMS 3-plank wagon
with container load.
CLASS 5: STATIONARY ENGINES
Near main entrance
Very Highly Commended: John Wing,
Rectilinear or cross engine.
CLASS 6: STEAM ROAD VEHICLES
(STATIC) Near main entrance
1-Dennis Lambe 1½in Allchin traction
engine.
CLASS 8: INTERNAL
COMBUSTION ENGINES
Lower Hall, Marquee side
1-Mike Sayers, 1927 Delage 15.S.8
GP engine that powered the car that
won the first and second British Grand
Prix at Brooklands in 1926 and 1927.
2-Brian Harrison, Scratch-built V8
petrol engine with overhead cams
3-Brian Merrifield, Hit & Miss engine
made to the design of Phillip Duclos
CLASS 9: HOROLOGICAL,
SCIENTIFIC & AUTOMATA
2- Andrew Read, Large wheel skeleton
clock to John Wilding design, all
constructed on Myford ML7B lathe
CLASS 10: MARINE MODELS
(over 50% scratch built)
Commended: David Christopher
Brook, steam-powered model of an
early 1900s admiral’s barge, scratch-
built
CLASS 12 : MODEL HORSE-
DRAWN VEHICLES
1-Chris Biggs, 1/12th scale London
horse-drawn omnibus
2-John Charles Clarke, Hornsby horse-
▲ An H R Plastow-designed 3in Wallis
& Steevens Simplicity which was built
in the 70s, and ran better on propane
compared to coal and was stored for
40 years. Still in the same family, a new
boiler came from Miller Boilers, while
Bridport Foundry who sell the Plastow
designs supplied a new set of drawings
and a new upright stud casting. The
engine is certainly making good
progress.
drawn reaper c1895 with working
sail, cutter and aprons
3- Chris Biggs, 1/12th scale Dunton
ledge wagon
CLASS 14: YOUNG ENGINEERS
AWARD (under 20 years old)
1-Luke Mason, Stuart S50 mill engine
2-Becky Hutchinson, Stuart No.10 H
steam engine
CLASS 15: MISCELLANEOUS
1- John Thorpe, Flying Scotsman with
2 Pullman carriages in Meccano
running on 20ft of track
2-Jameela M Boardman, wind-
powered reversible heat pump. This
can be either a cooler or a heater
using a slip eccentric, tripped by one
of two pawls whilst in motion.
CHRIS DEITH MEMORIAL
TROPHY
1-Mike Sayers, 1927 Delage 15.S.8
GP engine
FOSSE WAY STEAMERS
1-Les & Sue Riley, 4in McLaren road
locomotive Maud
BEST ENGINE MANAGEMENT:
(Steamer’s Award)
1-Luke Crowther, 4in Burrell traction
engine The Apprentice
SOCIETY SHIELD
1-Coventry Model Engineering Society
2-Hereford Society of Model Engineers
3-Society of Model & Experimental
Engineers
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 MARSHALL’S 175
AT HADDENHAM
B Ian Palmer takes a look at the superb Marshall
ack in February 2023, I received
a message from Richard Freeman,
stating that he had heard that
2023 marked the 175th anniversary
of William Marshall setting up his
business in Gainsborough and would
I be prepared to bring the Marshall
Club merchandise stall down to the
Haddenham steam rally in September.
He explained that every year at the
Haddenham rally, there is a special
display of exhibits and literature and in
2023 he was proposing that it should
be Marshalls of Gainsborough. I agreed
that, even though the Marshall Club had
not been to the rally previously, it would
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anniversary display at Haddenham on 16-17
September.
be possible to attend. Over the next six
months I was in constant communication
with Richard, sending him Marshall
literature which could be used in the
display and we met for the first time at
the Stradsett Rally in May 2023.
On arrival at Haddenham on the
Friday afternoon, I was met with a
warm welcome by Richard and his four
assistants responsible for setting up
the display of literature in the marquee
and lining up the Marshall exhibits,
namely Jonny Bye, Elizabeth Cooper,
Kay Whitbread and Peter Whitbread. I
would also like to thank Donna Rankin
and Stephen Pearsall for helping me
on the Marshall Club merchandise stall
over the weekend and Paul Gregory for
supplying most of the photos. I must also
mention Richard’s dad, Alan Freeman,

▲ Portable No. 45028 and saw bench owned by Keith Grimsay. Photo: Peter Love
as he is the person who hand-painted
the magnificent Marshall arch and
tractor wheel signs, which were part of
the Marshall display.
I would like to now outline a brief
summary of the products made by
Marshalls, accompanied by photos
taken of the exhibits at the Haddenham
Rally. By 1856 William Marshall’s two
sons James and Henry Dickenson had
entered the business and they pestered
their father to build portable steam
engines to provide power for their
thrashing machines and saw benches.
The 6nhp portable steam engine on
display was built in 1906 with works
No. 45028 and was originally exported
to Chile, but was repatriated back to the
UK in the 1990s. It is shown driving a
saw bench and both exhibits are owned
by Keith Grimsay.
Marshalls built their first traction
engine in 1876 and the example at
Haddenham and the Class A thrashing
machine are owned by Matthew and
Barry Peacock. The 6nhp engine, No.
48076, Iron Horse, BS 8694, was
new at the Lancashire Show in 1907
and spent its working life in the Isle of
Man, being used for wood sawing.
The engine later survived two scrap
yards, before returning to the mainland
with Alan Stevens. Bicknells carried
out the boiler work on the engine, but
various parts were missing. The engine
steamed in 2019, 70 years since it
was last used. Over the last two years
it has had new paintwork, courtesy of
Barry Peacock, and has been finished
off in various ways and is now carrying
the right engine number. The thrashing
drum, works No. 33219, was new to
Edwards of Raveley in Huntingdonshire
and has recently been refurbished and
painted by the owners.
Also at the show was 1908 Marshall
7hp GP No. 49725 Old Nick which
has recently returned to the rally field
after an eight-overhaul with Mervin
Mayes carrying out the boiler work and
Marston Steam Restorations the final
work. The ex-Allen of Oxford engine
carries a correct 7hp chimney these
days and it briefly stood beside 6hp No.
48076 on the Saturday of the show. In
fact Marshalls made double the amount
of 6hp engines compared to 7s.
The first Marshall oil tractor was built
in 1908 for the UK market and this was
followed by larger tractors for export
to the Colonies, but production ceased
in 1914, with the beginning of World
War 1. Marshalls first single-cylinder
diesel tractor was the 15/30 (15hp on
the drawbar and 30hp on the belt) and
it made its debut at the 1930 World
Tractor Trials. Price new was £315
and approximately 70 were built. In
1932 it received several improvements
and became known as the 18/30,
now having an oval tank and was
manufactured between 1932 and 1937.
In 1934 the Marshall board
Old Nick comes and joins
Iron Horse in the early
afternoon of the show.
Photo: Peter Love
▲ 1907 Marshall 6hp GP No. 48076
which spent its working life in the Isle
of Man with thrashing drum No. 33219
owned by the Peacocks.
Photo: Paul Gregory
announced that the company was to
be put into receivership and in 1935
Thomas Ward came to the rescue,
marking the end of the Marshall
family’s involvement with the company.
A new smaller tractor, along the lines
of the Fordson N, was built between
1935 and 1938 and was known as
the 12/20. Price new was £285 and
approximately 190 were built. The
example at the rally is owned by Peter
Goddard and was built in 1936.
An updated 12/20 became the
Model M in 1938, priced at £375
with approximately 900 made. There
was an example of a Model M inside
the marquee, owned by R Coe and S
Bunting. Marshalls again concentrated
on manufacturing armaments during
World War 2 and in 1945 a new
corporate brand range of products was
introduced such as the Field Marshall,
Road Marshall and Grain Marshall.
The Series 1 38hp Field Marshall was
manufactured between 1945 and 1947,
with the Mark 1 being the standard
agricultural tractor (price £550) and the
Mark 2 Contractors version, with rag
top canopy, lights and winch). There
were 2,011 units made, which included
the Standard and Contractors versions.
At Haddenham there were three Series
1 tractors owned by Andrew Parker,
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▲ 1936 12/20 owned by Peter
Goddard. Photo: Paul Gregory
▲ 1950 Fowler VF owned by N.Websdale. Photo: Ian Palmer
Alastair Hopkin and Stephen Pearsall/
Donna Rankin.
In 1947 design changes were
made to the Field Marshall, including
increasing the power to 40hp with better
cooling, a larger clutch and improved
brakes. Again, the Series 2 was
available in standard or Contractors
versions; the canopy was discontinued,
but a Portland cab was offered as an
optional extra. Price was now £625 for
the standard tractor and approximately
7,000 were sold. The nine Series 2
tractors at Haddenham were owned
by P Smith, N Websdale, J Papworth,
Oliver Hopkin, Andrew Parker, K
Jackson, D Giles, M & F Fowler and
Jonny Bye.
The acquisition of John Fowler into
the Marshall Organisation by the Ward
Group in 1946, resulted in the Fowler
VF crawler tractor, incorporating the
Series 2 Field Marshall engine and
bonnet with Fowler track running gear.
Price was initially £1,060 and during
its production years of 1948 to 1952,
4,658 units were made. The 1950 VF
on show is owned by N Websdale.
In 1950, Marshalls realised that
a larger Field Marshall model was
needed, capable of being used for
heavy cultivation work. The result was
the Field Marshall Series 3, priced at
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▲ Stephen Pearsall on his 1947 Field
Marshall Series 1. Photo: Paul Gregory
£714 and approximately 3,205 were
built. There were three Series 3 tractors
at Haddenham, owned by Terry Young,
Andrew Parker and Richard Freeman.
Richard’s tractor was driven into the ring
by his father Alan.
Marshalls followed a policy of
continually upgrading their products
and the Series 3 was succeeded by
the 3A, manufactured between 1952
and 1956. The Series 3A tractors were
initially painted in mid-Brunswick green
until 1953, but from then onwards in
Fowler Chrome Orange, to provide
uniformity with the Fowlers at shows and
exhibitions. Priced new they were £845
and approximately 2,125 were made.
There were two Series 3A tractors on
show, one with original paintwork that
had been brought back from France
owned by Nick Allen and a second,
which won the Best Marshall at Show
award, owned by Daryl Copeman.
At the Smithfield Show in December
1951, Fowlers exhibited a new crawler
tractor, the Challenger 1, which used
a Marshall-designed, twin-cylinder
water-cooled loop-scavenged two-stroke
diesel engine. Approximately 50 units
were made between 1951 and 1955.
At Haddenham, there was an example
owned by S R Haylock. Subsequent
multi-cylinder crawler tractors followed
▲ Jonny Bye on his Field Marshall Series
2. Photo: Paul Gregory
▲ Alan Freeman on the Series 3 owned
by his son, Richard Freeman.
Photo: Paul Gregory
▲ Daryl Copeman on his 1953 Series
3A. Photo: Paul Gregory
under the Fowler name.
In 1954 a decision was made to
replace the Challenger 1 with the new
Track Marshall, powered initially by a
Perkins L4 four-cylinder engine, which
made its debut appearance in 1955
at the Royal Show. From 1959 the L4
engine was replaced with a Perkins
Four 270D diesel engine and it was
launched as the Track Marshall 55, as
it developed 55hp. From 1956 to 1963
they were painted orange and from
1964 they were painted yellow. There
were four TM55 crawlers at Haddenham
(two orange and two yellow) and the
photo is of M Short’s 1961 tractor.
At the same time as developing the
Track Marshall, Marshalls also designed
a ‘tug’ tractor for use on the prairie
lands of Canada and Australia. This
▲ S.R. Haylock’s Fowler Challenger 1.
Photo: Paul Gregory
▲ 1970 Track Marshall 90 owned by J Edwards. Photo: Paul Gregory
initially was to use a Meadows four-
cylinder diesel engine, but after tests it
was decided to use the more powerful
70hp Leyland UE350 six-cylinder
diesel engine. The MP6 was produced
between 1956 and 1961, but only 197
were built, priced at £1,450. There
were two examples at Haddenham:
Neil Ayres brought his original condition
MP6 and Geoff Scott-Coomber drove
his recently restored MP6 the twenty five
miles to and from the event.
From 1969 Marshalls re-styled their
Track Marshalls, with models reflecting
the new engine horsepowers, i.e.
TM56, TM75 and TM90. The example
at Haddenham was a 1970 Track
Marshall 90 dozer owned by J Edwards.
Marshall Sons & Co Ltd. would
become Marshall-Fowler in 1969
and Aveling-Marshall in 1975, but
by the end of 1979 most of the
Marshall workforce had been made
redundant. Charles Nickerson acquired
Track Marshall in 1980 from British
Leyland, followed in 1982 by the
Leyland wheeled tractor division, with
▲ 1961 Track Marshall 55 owned by M
Short. Photo: Paul Gregory
production transferred from Bathgate to
Gainsborough. There was one harvest
gold tractor at Haddenham, that being a
702 model, owned by A Dunham.
The Marshall Club covers all
Fowler crawlers and there were two
crawler tractors on display that were
built under the Fowler name, before
Fowlers became part of the Marshall
Organisation. The first is the Fowler
4-40 owned by Matthew Haylock which
has a four-cylinder Fowler-Sanders 40hp
engine and they were built between
1936 and 1940.
The second crawler is believed to
have been built when Fowlers were
owned by the Howard Rotary Hoes
Company of West Horndon, Essex. It
is a Howard-Fowler prototype crawler,
powered by a Meadows 4EL/AV 24hp
engine and was built in 1946. It was
acquired by the Oliver family when the
factory was converted to Industrial units
in 1974 and is now owned by Fred
Lambert.
The final show of 2023, where the
Marshall Club will be celebrating the
▲ Geoff Scott-Coomber and Neil Ayres
on their MP6 tractors. Photo: Paul Gregory
▲ A. Dunham’s Marshall 702 model.
Photo: Paul Gregory
▲ Fowler 4-40 owned by Matthew
Haylock. Photo: Peter Love
▲ 1946 Howard-Fowler 24hp crawler
owned by Fred Lambert.
Photo: Paul Gregory
175th Marshall Anniversary, will be
the Newark Vintage Tractor & Heritage
Show on 4-5 November. There will be a
large and varied collection of Marshall
products on show on the Marshall Club
stand. Please come along and say hello.
The Marshall Club covers all the
Marshall products manufactured,
plus the Fowler crawler tractors. If
anybody is interesting in joining, please
contact Ian Palmer via email at ian.
themarshallclub@outlook.com or mobile
No. 07543 379769. OG
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 Ollie Warburton with his
superb 1914 Aveling &
Porter No. 8455 Hengist.

A STEAM ROLLER CALLED HENGIST

Part 1 of a tale of toil and teamwork…
According to legend Hengist and Horsa were Anglo-Saxon brothers
who landed at Ebbsfleet on the Isle of Thanet around 450AD to serve as
mercenaries for Vortigern, the king of the Britons. Horsa was killed in battle
but his younger brother Hengist survived to become the first in a long line of
kings of Kent, says Dave Vaughan.

A
s Kent was the county where
Thomas Aveling entered into
partnership with Richard Thomas
Porter and, in 1862, set up the company
that went on to become the most prolific
builder of steam rollers in the world,
it seems appropriate that two of their
engines should end up being named
after the legendary brothers.
This is the story of how one of these
rollers was saved and later fully restored
by a friend of the owner, who had been
bequeathed the roller following his
death, and with the help of a team of
friends and fellow steam engineers went
on to complete a full restoration of a
steam roller Hengist.
Our story starts with a ten-year old
boy called Dave Wallis who went
on to become a life-long lover and
preservationist of all things steam. At the
time, not long after WW2, Dave and his
family lived in Ewell near Epsom. As a
lad Dave suffered from nasal catarrh and
his mum knew that the smell of hot tar
fumes were a home-spun remedy for this
affliction so, during the school holidays,
she often packed him off to go and see
“Uncle Joe” who drove the Aveling roller
No. 10269 for Sutton & Cheam District
Council. Dave became a firm friend of
this driver and his roller.
A story that Dave Wallis often
told later was that, whilst doing his
national service, he met an ex-Dingles
driver called Bill Jonas who had Burrell
DCC showman’s engine No. 2651 of
1904 called Challenger. Dave went
to many Cornish rallies with him. On

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▲ Looking good with its original type roof at the High Weald ▲ The engine was new to Bedford County Council and worked
Rally on 17 June. Photo: Peter Love for them into the 1950s. Photo: Peter Love

▲ Seen with its original-size cast number

plate NM 971 - rare to see these days.
Photo: Peter Love

▲ No. 8455 when called Boadicea at the Chatham Dock Yard on 26 August 1990.
Photo: Bob Moorman

one particular occasion they were on
their way to the St Agnes rally when the
nearside crank bearing started to run hot.
Dave thought Bill would stop to sort it
out, however they carried on while Bill
frantically started to empty the contents
of the tool box onto the footplate floor.
He then produced a bottle of HP sauce
which he proceeded to pour down the
oil ways into the bearing. He turned
round and said to Dave “Wol, don’t
ever forget the HP sauce.” The bearing
cooled down and the rest of the journey
was trouble free!
Dave went to work for the Southern
Region of British Railways, an employer
he remained with for the whole of his
working life, and also became one of
the founding members of the Bluebell
Railway. He kept track of the old Sutton
& Cheam roller No. 10269, an F class
compound 10-ton Aveling & Porter built
in 1922, and in 1973 he purchased it.
After a lifetime of hard work the roller
needed much work doing which Dave
carried out successfully. The engine was
later named Horsa and Dave enjoyed
rallying with it for 17 years.
Apparently Dave was known semi-
jokingly as a person who had a spare
for everything, and so maybe that was
why he came to purchase a partner
for his first roller. This then is where
the engine in our story comes into the
picture. The story begins in December
1914 when engine No. 8455 left the
Rochester works of Aveling & Porter to
go to its new owners Bedford County
Council as their fleet No. 1. This was
part of a fleet of 10-ton BS class single-
cylinder rollers. The engine was given
the fleet number No. 1 taken from the
previous No.1 in the fleet, an Aveling
R10 class.
In 1951, after 37 years with the
council, it was sold for further work
to R Thompson of Cherry Hinton,
Cambridgeshire. In 1961 it entered into
preservation and had several owners
until, in 1991, Dave Wallis became
owner number nine! In folk-law Hengist
was the younger brother of Horsa and
so, as the older of the two engines,
Hengist was the name given to engine
No. 8455.
Shortly afterwards a young steam
enthusiast named Ollie Warburton,
whose family farm was on the border
with Surrey and Sussex, met up with
Dave and expressed an interest in his
roller. Dave realised that he had met with
a genuine young enthusiast who was

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Looking different is No.
8455 at the Chatham Dock
Yard on 30 March 2002.
Photo: Bob Moorman
▲ Hengist at the Redhill rally in August 1992 with Dave Wallis
driving and Steve Webb as steersman. Photo: Philip Evans
▲ Hengist is pictured outside Dave
Wallis’s house on a winter’s day in the
late 1990s. Photo: Dave Wallis
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▲ Dave and Hengist arriving at a Sussex rally in July 1994.
Photo: Dave Wallis
willing to learn and lend a hand and so
allowed him on the footplate, and thus
began a lasting friendship.
Ollie was just 15 years old and had
been told that Dave Wallis could be a
bit cantankerous, but found that was not
the case, in fact Dave turned out to have
a great sense of humour and Ollie says
it was great fun to be on the roller with
him.
They met each other in the yard
belonging to Dave Young, owner of
Burrell single-crank traction engine No.
2575 Buller. Dave Wallis had always
wanted to take the Aveling to Epsom
Downs rally and Ollie remembers that
one of his first experiences with Hengist
was getting stuck in the mud at that
event. It had rained hard the week
before and the roller had to get winched
out by Neil Gough who, at the time, had
Burrell DCC traction engine No. 4019 of
1925 Britannia.
Ollie and Dave worked together with
Hengist for another 15 years and Dave
made Ollie a promise that, when he
died, the engine would be left to him
in his will. Dave Wallis passed away
▲ Dave in jovial mood and looking very
smart at Horsted Keynes in July 1998.
Dave had a long association with the
Bluebell Railway and did a lot of useful
work for them over a period of many
years. Photo: D Walmsley
▲ Michael Webber looks on as the new
smokebox is rolled. The engineer, based
in Shoreham, told Ollie that the roll
benders were hardly used these days.
Photo: Ollie Warburton
in 2016 and, true to his word, Hengist
passed into the ownership of his old
friend Ollie.
At that time the engine had already
been stripped down for a rebuild as a
HORSA - THE OTHER ENGINE
▲ 1922 Aveling & Porter No. 10269
PC9203 that was called Horsa at one
time, seen on 6 December 1992.
Photo: Bob Moorman
▲ After the first tender, made by another
firm, was returned as unsatisfactory
a second tender was made at the
engineering works of Sam Henwood of ▲ Fred Streeter and Mark Green fitted
Fraddon and found to be just the job. the new tyres to the repaired wheels.
Photo: Ollie Warburton Photo: Ollie Warburton
▲ Work on Hengist looks to be progressing well in this picture taken at Ollie’s farm.
It is quite a tight fit in the workshop but here is where it all came together with the
team hard at it during evenings and weekends.
Photo: Ollie Warburton
previous boiler inspection had revealed By the time Ollie had ownership of
that the boiler barrel was in need of the engine Chatham Steam Engineering
some build-up welding and that the had gone into liquidation and the
firebox, front tube plate and back-head Dockyard gave Ollie just one week
all needed repair or replacement. to clear the shed of his engine. Ollie
The boiler assembly had been sent to enlisted the help of Dickie Croft, a local
Chatham Dockyard for Chatham Steam haulier and fellow steam enthusiast, to
Engineering to work on, and other parts use his low-loader to collect the boiler
had been sent to various places for assembly from the dockyard.
attention. To be continued. OG
▲ Now seen out at Old Warden on 14 ▲ No. 10269 Horsa at Old Warden,
September 1996 is No. 10269 Horsa. 19 September 1998 looking splendid
Photo: Bob Moorman with its correct canopy.
Photo: Bob Moorman
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MINIATURES LET OFF STEAM
AT CHESTER-LE-STREET
The Chester-Le-Street Steam & Vintage Rally took place in early July, on the Lambton
Estate beside the River Wear near the town of Chester-le-Street. It attracted a great
selection of vehicles from commercials to cars and motorbikes. But as the name suggests,
this is primarily a steam show, with a variety of full-sized engines to enjoy, while a great
selection of miniatures was also to be seen, with the Burrell name certainly dominating
proceedings. David Reed made the trip to see the action.

Seen in the
parade ring,
Daniel I’Anson’s
4in Burrell Scenic
Showman’s
engine Princess
Elizabeth which
was totally rebuilt
after purchase.

F
irst up was Jamie Fearnley’s 6in
Burrell showman’s engine that was
built by Martin Young, and then
bought by Jamie in 2019. Always up
for a challenge, the Burrell completed
a John O’Groats to Land’s End Run in
September 2020 which only took ten
days to complete, after which it came off
the road for a well-deserved restoration.
Now back on the rally scene, the engine
made the trip to Chester-le-Street from
its Leeds base under its own power, and
did the same on the way home.
Staying with the showman’s theme ▲ This 4in Burrell agricultural engine
was Daniel I’Anson’s 4in Burrell scenic was built from a Steam Traction World
engine Princess Elizabeth that was kit that was bought in 2019 by Paul
originally scratch-built and was bought Langshaw of Thirsk
from Cornwall in 2017. Since then it has
been totally rebuilt, with Daniel doing
most of the work, including re-riveting the ► The 4in Orcop Yeoman steam
wheels and doing all of the paintwork. portable engine was built to John
Daniel certainly comes from a family that Haining’s design by Miles Pennett of York
has always been involved with traction in 2021.

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▲ Weather protection was needed as
this 4in Burrell single-crank compound
road locomotive paraded around the
ring during a rain shower.
▲ James Stanley’s 4in Wallis & Steevens scratch-built
Simplicity roller Arthur was completed in 1994, and is seen
amongst heavy traffic in the ring
engines, being the fifth generation to be
involved in steam. “My great, great-
grandfather was a threshing contractor
at Bishop Auckland,” he said.
Paul Langshaw’s 4in Burrell
agricultural engine was built from a
Steam Traction World kit and was
bought in 2019; “I have done a few
jobs to it,” he said, “There is always
something to do.” Then came David
Smith’s 4in Burrell agricultural engine
Elsie which was built in 2007 from a kit,
while making the trip from Middleton
in Teesdale, were Adrian and Charlotte
Harley-James’ with their 4in Burrell SCC
road locomotive that was originally
scratch-built by Ian Jenner.
Making the trip from East Lothian
was Tony Wallace’s 4in Burrell general
purpose engine Wally, an engine that
was built by John Rex between 2012
and 2013, while Peter Dobbin’s 4in
Burrell GP engine was bought from the
Gloucester area in 2022. “The only
work that has been carried out is fitting a
hand pump and generally tidying up the
engine,” Peter said.
Continuing the Burrell theme was Ken
▲ Seen in the ring with Ken Rogers’
4in Burrell single cylinder engine was
Doddy, Malcolm Kirby’s 4in Alfred
Dodman engine that was built in 2004
by Bernie Fairbanks.
▲ Stephen Gell’s 4in scratch-built freelance engine Gordon
was built in 1997 by Eddie Chapman and was seen on a run
around the show field
Rodgers’ 4in single-cylinder engine that
was scratch-built along with the boiler by
Ken, with the project being completed
in 2009. To round things off, Andrew
Morse had made the trip from Sherriff
Hutton near York with his 4in Burrell road
locomotive Little Elsie. The construction
of the engine began in 2014 and was
completed in 2016, with the front end
being scratch-built and the rest made
from a kit.
Also coming from the York area was
Miles Pennett with his 4in Orcop Yeoman
steam portable engine that was built to
John Haining’s design in 2021, while
making the trip from East Lothian was
Malcolm Kirby’s 4in Alfred Dodman
engine. Aptly named Doddy, it was built
in 2004 by Bernie Fairbanks, and is the
only single-crank compound that was
built by Dodman.
Representing the Garrett name was
Rose, Michael Moore’s 4in Garrett road
locomotive that had been scratch-built by
Paul Jones of Pickering, being completed
in 2007. This engine has been rallied
throughout the country including trips
to the Great Dorset Steam Fair for a
▲ Michael Moore’s 4in Garrett road
locomotive Rose had been scratch-
built by Paul Jones of Pickering, being
completed in 2007 and has been rallied
all over the UK.
number of years, while being seen in its
first year of rallying was Martin Young’s
6in Garrett 4CD showman’s tractor.
Scratch-built by Martin and taking two
to three years to complete, it certainly
got the cameras clicking as it paraded
around the ring, and deservedly so.
There weren’t many rollers among
the miniatures, but bucking that trend
was Arthur, James Stanley’s 4in Wallis
& Steevens scratch-built Simplicity roller
that was completed in 1994, by a Mr
Whitmore. It later passed to James
in pieces in around 2018 and was
restored.
The only Fowler on display among the
miniatures turned out to be the smallest.
This was Liam Hayes’ 2in Fowler R3
showman’s engine Little Logan that was
bought in August 2022 when it was
just under half complete. It was finished
just after Christmas last year and was
seen being towed around the ring with
probably the youngest crew at the rally,
the ‘L’ plate on the front confirming that
fact.
Stephen Gell’s 4in scratch-built
freelance engine Gordon was built
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▲ This 6in Garrett 4CD showman’s
tractor was scratch built by Martin Young
of Jarrow.
▲ Fitted with a Guy lorry mascot in front
of the chimney was Robbie Hindmarsh’s
4in Foster agricultural engine that was
built between 2006 to 2008.
▲ This 6in Foden tractor was scratch-
built by Richard Gudgeon of Leeds
taking seven years to complete, and was
seen parading around the ring
in 1997 by Eddie Chapman of
North Cowden near Catterick, while
representing the Foster name Steve
Bland’s 4in agricultural engine was
originally scratch-built by Andy Lowes of
Darlington.
Continuing the Foster theme was
Robbie Hindmarsh’s 4in agricultural
engine, the boiler of which was built
in around 2006, with the whole
project being completed in around
2008. “It looks like it is fitted with Live
Steam Model parts,” Robbie said, “I
only bought it at the beginning of the
year and it has been given a general
make-over with bearings and bushes
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David Lidster’s
4in scratch-
built Foster
traction engine
Cleo was seen
being driven
by grandson
Harry Lidster
at Chester-Le-
Street.
▲ The miniatures line up in front of the full-sized engines.
being looked at.” Then came David
Lidster’s 4in scratch-built Foster traction
engine Cleo that had taken six years to
complete after being started in 2012,
while only bought three weeks before
the event was James Craig’s 4in Foster
agricultural engine Little Leo.
There were several steam wagons
to enjoy too, the first being 6in Foden
SWB tractor Steely Dan that was built
as a Steam Traction World kit by Mark
Steven of Edinburgh; “It has had a lot
of alterations made to it,” Mark said,
“including a fifth wheel being added.”
The work took 15 months to complete
with Covid lockdowns meaning more
time was available to devote to the
project.
Then came Richard Gudgeon’s
scratch-built 6in Foden tractor which
took seven years to complete, “I couldn’t
get the parts for the engine during
lockdown,” he said. This project was
completed in 2022 and made its rally
debut in the same year, while Mike
Davison’s 4½in Foden C Type wagon
Grey Lady was bought from a box of bits
and restored. “I didn’t do the gears and
cranks though,” he said.
Completing the Foden line-up was
Ian Smith’s 4½in Foden C Type that was
built from John Rex parts by Ian and his
friends, being completed in 2022, while
Alister Foster’s 4½in Sentinel S4 waggon
was built over a number of years on
and off. It was completed in 2022, and
is painted in Cadbury’s famous livery.
“It is copied from the full-sized engine
Freddie,” Alistair said.
The miniatures were certainly popular
exhibits and got a lot of attention
throughout the weekend. At the end
of their parade around the ring, they
lined up in front of the full-sized engines
and opened their whistles wide, really
making their presence felt. OG
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RALLY ROUND-UP

This month David Reed looks at the trams and Fords that were at Beamish
recently and Dick Bodily takes in the 39th Ridgeway Run. We have plenty
more for you in the next issue.

TRAM & FORDS AT BEAMISH

Seen leaving the 1900s
town was ex-Newcastle
Corporation Class A
tram No. 114 that was
built in 1901 by Hurst
Nelson and Co. of
Motherwell to replace
horse trams. It is the
only example of its type
to have survived.

▲ South Shields No. 196 was built in 1935 at the Boavista ▲ Sunderland Corporation Tramways No. 16 was built as an
Works of Companhia Carris de Ferro do Porto and is seen at open-top tramcar by Dick, Kerr & Co, Preston, in 1900, ending
one of the stops at Beamish. up as a football team’s changing room and later a tool shed
and apple store

S
tarting the rally season off in fine
style was Beamish’s two-day steam
gala that took place at the world-
famous open-air museum near Stanley
in County Durham at the beginning of
April.
Apart from the steam, the trams
that were on duty over the weekend
were definitely worth a mention, with
many having north-east connections.
These included 1901 Newcastle
Corporation Class A No. 114, that
moved to Sheffield in 1941 before
being withdrawn a decade later, while
South Shields 196 was built in 1935 at
the Boavista Works of Oporto Tramways
Company in Portugal. Certainly having
a more modern look was Sunderland
Corporation 16 that was built in 1900
by Dick, Kerr & Co. in Preston - it was
used until 1954 when Sunderland’s

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▲ This 1954 Daimler CVG6 was new to
Rotherham Corporation and was on duty
at Beamish throughout the weekend.

▲ This 1922 Ford Model T was seen on the main street at Beamish. It carries a
Shetland Islands registration plate, and passed to Lowes of Chester before being
owned in Ireland, later being brought back to the UK.

▲ 304 VHN was Darlington Corporation

Transport’s 1964 CVG5 and was seen
on the roads around Beamish during the
gala.

It was great to see so many vintage vehicles standing outside the Co-op shop, really
setting the scene.

CVG5 from 1964. for many years before being loaned to

▲ This 1929 Ford A1 recovery is fitted
with a Weaver crane, and is owned by
Peter Wyatt. It is seen in the 1900s town
at Beamish.
system closed down, before being used
as a football team’s changing rooms.
Finally there was Blackpool No.
31, built in 1901 at the Midland
Railway Carriage & Wagon
Company for Blackpool Tramway,
originally it was a four-wheel double-
decker open-topper. These trams were
complemented by a couple of Daimler
buses including KET 220, Rotherham
Corporation’s 1954 CVG6, along with
304 VHN, Darlington Transport 1964
Competing for space on the roads
between the trams and steam engines
were a number of smaller vintage
vehicles, all of which helped to set the
scene. Peter Wyatt was to be seen with
his 1929 Ford A1 recovery which was
fitted with a Weaver crane, while Austin
Ellis’ 1922 Ford Model T carried a
Shetland Islands registration, passing to
Lowes of Chester before being owned in
Ireland and returning to the UK.
Indeed, the Ford name was
prominent over the weekend. No real
history is known about Russell Cook’s
1919 Ford TT that was bought from
Model T specialist Neil Tuckett in
Buckinghamshire, while Nick Onions
of Shrewsbury was with a 1921 Ford
Model TT 13-seat country bus which
had operated in the Welshpool area
Lord Montague for the Beaulieu Motor
Museum.
Then came Neil Elford’s 1915 Ford
T van that was new to the French Creek
MDSE & Co Steam Bakery of St Peters
in Pennsylvania USA, which came to the
UK around 2019 in bits, while a 1915
Ford model T pick up came from Texas
in 2020 and was bought unseen over
the phone.
It was an amazing sight to see
so many Ford Model T commercial
derivatives here.
But whatever the reason for your visit,
there is so much to see here, reminding
us of days gone by with a town, a
railway station, farms and pit village
with the colliery all complemented by the
trams, omnibuses and on this occasion
the vintage Ford vehicles. OG

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The New York Checker yellow taxi was
an unusual sight. Photo: Dick Bodily
39TH RIDGEWAY RUN 2023
Each year the Historic Commercial Vehicles Society (South Midlands) hold
a well-supported road run from Henley-on-Thames to the Buckinghamshire
Railway Centre at Quainton. It gets its name from the ancient Ridgeway of
the Chiltern Hills which it crosses. Dick Bodily went along to see the action.
John Doe’s Atkinson Borderer of 1968.
Photo: Dick Bodily
T
he event is sponsored by J Mould’s
(of Reading) tipper and demolition
business and it was staged on
18 June.
The 40 or so entrants this year
ranged in age from John Miles’ fabulous
Morris R removal van of 1929 up
until the McGovern Brothers’ massive
Scania articulated lorry of 1996. The
McGoverns had several of their historic
fleet running. Although the bulk of the
vehicles were of the 1970-90 period
it must be remembered that these
relatively modern-looking vehicles are
between 33 and 53 years old now, time
flies! There were also several fabulous
older commercials to be admired too.
I viewed the run at first at picturesque
Chearsley. After an early convoy of
small vans, which had set off at 9.15am
with Ray Webb’s Citreon AK400
marking the route, the first of the group
that departed about half an hour later to
appear was John Ayres’ green-liveried
Morris Commercial LC3. Later at the
railway centre it was parked next to a
red-liveried example which is kept at
Quainton by Ricki Sutcliffe. John and
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Bill Harwood’s 1974 Citroen AK400
Fourgonnette at Chearsley.
Photo: Dick Bodily
Nick Sargent’s 1947 Daimler CVD6
coach. Photo: Dick Bodily
his wife Janet are joint organisers of the
run, John also being chairman of the
South Midlands group.
There was to be a presentation of
various awards. Competition must have
been close for these as there were so
many outstanding looking vehicles taking
part with some unusual ones as well.
I hadn’t seen a preserved eight-
wheeled ERF KV tipper model before
so I couldn’t help being impressed
by Keith French’s strikingly red and
yellow-liveried example. It must have
seemed massive when it first appeared
in the Blowers Transport fleet in 1960.
After being preserved it was acquired
by JCK, a Manx firm. Keith bought it in
2017. Other French family examples
entered were eight-wheeler Fodens. Jack
had his lovely red ex-Bellingham and
Whiteleggs DG of 1946, while Keith
also entered his 1950 FG6/15. I must
have seen the latter back in its working
days when it was with locally-based
showman Tom Smith as I attended many
of their fairs.
Robert Wells entered two smart AEC
Mammoths which made a fine sight
Robert Wells’ AEC Mammoth Majors at
Chearsley crossroads. Photo: Dick Bodily
An impressive lineup at Quainton of the
more modern trucks. Photo: Dick Bodily
running closely together on route to
Quainton; a 1957 Mk 111 and a later
1961 Mk V. Just one coach took part
this year but what a beauty! Owned
by Nick Sargent it is a 1949 Daimler
CVD6 coach and is Bluebird liveried
because it was once one of the famous
Alexander fleet. Also completing the run
was a New York yellow Checker taxi. I
wonder if it was the very one that took
away Joni Mitchell’s ‘old man’?
Bearing in mind all the other local
lorries and vans that have appeared
in previous recent Ridgeway Runs it’s
amazing to consider what a splendid
variety of commercials are based in the
South Midlands, and what a credit they
are to their owners.
Meanwhile at the Quainton Road
Railway Centre steam rides were in
charge of Hudswell, Clarke 0-6-0ST No
66, while two smart Pecketts could be
viewed through the open door of one
of the sheds. It’s a pity though that full
access isn’t available to the sheds and
workshops, although the museum is
worth a visit and LNWR ‘Cornwall’ can
be viewed in the shop/café. OG
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LOCO STARS AT STATFOLD
The Statfold Barn Railway is one of the top attractions for the rail enthusiast with several locomotives
in steam on the extensive rail network. My latest visit to the railway was for the September Road,
Rail and Ale Festival that attracted large crowds to the attraction, writes David Reed.

T
his year the railway has operated
from Wednesdays to Sundays, a
major change and something that
will continue until the end of October.
Here steam was not restricted to the
railway locomotives that were in action.
Around 25 full-sized traction engines and
rollers were to be seen, complemented
by 20 or so miniatures that were also
popular exhibits over the weekend.
A couple of the engines were Statfold
residents, including Martin Pearson’s
1910 Burrell 5nhp showman’s engine
which started life as a Devonshire road
loco and is numbered 3202. The Burrell
spent much of its life before retirement in
Devon working in the timber trade before
moving to Hampshire during the war
years. It later passed to Jessie Vine, and
after several other owners, it was bought ▲ After running up and down the track on dozens of occasions as part of its ‘Driver
by Martin in 1964, being seen for the for a Fiver,’ 1953 W G Bagnall, 0-4-2T Isaac is brought onto the shed for a well-
first time in 60 years during 2020. deserved rest.
Also seen was 1927 Wallis &
Steevens Class SY roller No. 7939 a ‘whistle off,’ an amazing sound, and the weekend.
Alex that is also a Statfold resident. This sight, with even a couple of locomotives Among the locomotives on duty was
roller was exhibited at the impressive on the railway joining in for good French-built Corpet 0-6-0PT No 439
sounding British Engineer, Public Works measure. Minas de Aller No.2, the oldest narrow-
& Engineering Exhibition in Islington, Of course steam was not just gauge locomotive at Statfold and their
it was bought by Parrys of Putney and restricted to the engines on show, several only French-built one for that matter. It
worked in London. of the Statfold Barn Railway’s railway is fitted with Brown’s valve gear and
But the highlight of the day had to be locomotives were in action, providing indirect drive to the coupled wheel via a
when all of the engines got together for trips around the extensive network during rocker arm, and was one of six similar

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▲ Seen on passenger duties was 1944
Peckett & Sons of Bristol 0-6-0ST No.
2050 Harrogate which was built for the
town’s gas works.
▲ About to leave the station was 1912
Fowler 0-4-02T No. 13355 Saccharine
which had worked on the sugar cane
plantation railway of Natal Estates in
South Africa.
engines used by the same company
at a Spanish coal mine. It remained in
use until the late 1960s before being
preserved in Spain.
Also on duty was Lukata No.19 which
arrived at Statfold in 2012 after being
repatriated from Fiji. This 1914 Hudswell
Clarke 0-4-0ST No.1056 worked on
Fiji’s largest sugar mill at Laukata, it was
used to transport bagged sugar from
the mill to the shipping wharf, being
withdrawn in 1960.
Then came 1944 Peckett & Sons of
Bristol 10-6-0ST No. 2050 Harrogate
which was built for the town’s gas
works, it was used to transport coal
from then NER exchange sidings at
Bilton. Following the closure of the line
in 1956, Harrogate spent some time at
the Ffestiniog Railway before moving to
Statfold, while 1945 Bagnall 4-4-0T No
2820 Isibutu was also in action. This
loco was bought by The Tongaat Sugar
Company in South Africa, returning to
the UK in 1972.
This wasn’t the only Bagnall on site,
1953 0-4-2T Isaac was also in steam, a
locomotive that was used at Rustenburg
Platinum Mines in South Africa. For
those with a sense of adventure, this
locomotive was available to ‘Drive for
a Fiver’ with no shortage of prospective
engineers up for the challenge.
Also seen working hard was 1912
▲ 1944 Peckett & Sons of Bristol 0-6-0ST
No. 2050 Harrogate was seen on many
passenger trains during the day. Here
the crew look out as the train moves
away from the station.
▲ Seen about to reverse onto its next
train is 1914 Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0ST
No.1056 Lukata No.19 which arrived at
Statfold in 2012 after being repatriated
from Fiji.
Fowler 0-4-02T No. 13355 Saccharine
which was employed on the sugar cane
plantation railway of Natal Estates in
South Africa, returning to the UK in
1978, while unsurprisingly getting a lot
of attention was 1909 Beyer-Peacock
K1. Always a popular locomotive,
it worked for the North-East Dundas
Tramway in Tasmania before its return
to the UK. Here it spent time at the
Ffestiniog Railway, the National Railway
Museum in York and the Welsh Highland
Railway where it was restored, before
eventually passing to Statfold in 2019.
But arguably most popular of all
was Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
0-4-0SWTT No. 19B which was built in
1889 by Sharp Stewart & Co. as No.
3518. The locomotive was bought by
The Darjeeling Tank Locomotive Trust
from the late Adrian Shooter CBE’s
Beeches Light Railway auction near
Banbury last June. The 19B is to be
based at the Statfold Barn Railway, with
founder Graham Lee doing the bidding
for the trust, who had raised £300,000
from its inception in January to buy the
locomotive. The Trust’s successful bid of
£250,000 plus buyer’s premium won
the day, with the two replica Darjeeling
coaches, that sold for £20,000 and
£15,000 respectively, also being bought
to give the locomotive an even more
authentic look.
▲ 1944 Peckett & Sons of Bristol
0-6-0ST No. 2050 Harrogate enters the
station pulling the two replica Darjeeling
coaches that usually accompany the
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway 19B.
▲ Waiting for its next tour of duty is
1945 Bagnall 4-4-0T No 2820 Isibutu
which was standing outside the signal
box preparing to reverse onto its train in
the station.
Withdrawn from service in 1962, it
became the only ‘B’ Class locomotive to
leave India, being sold and exported to
a private owner in the USA before it was
acquired by the Hesston Steam Museum
near Chicago. It returned to the UK in
2003. The locomotive’s boiler ticket runs
out early next year, with a full overhaul
following; then there is the possibility
of the 19B touring other railways in the
future.
Seeing it in steam at Statfold was a
wonderful sight, especially when it was
pulling a set of Darjeeling Himalayan
coaches which were also part of the
auction, something not to be missed.
The event also welcomed a great
selection of cars, commercials and
tractors, with a number of buses to be
seen too. Many of the buses are based
at the Transport Museum which houses
a number of American commercial
vehicles, with Transport Museum Wythall
partnering Statfold to provide the public
transport element of its new facility.
Now free bus trips are organised with
journeys into nearby Tamworth, and the
odd mystery tour is available.
Of course there is the railway museum
itself, with numerous locomotives there
to inspect around the central turntable,
engines that have worked all over the
world at one time but are now saved for
posterity at Statfold.
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 RAILWAY Roundabout
On ‘Driver for a Fiver’
duties was 1953 W
G Bagnall, 0-4-2T
Isaac that was used at
Rustenburg Platinum
Mines in South Africa.
There was no shortage
of customers.

▲ 1898 Hunslet 0-4-0WT Jack was used

to haul clay in wooden tubs from the pit
to the works. It was seen in the museum
at Statfold.

▲ Waiting to move off from one of the stations is French-

built Corpet 0-6-0PT No. 439 Minas de Aller No.2, the oldest ▲ Some of the locomotives on shed towards the end of a long
narrow-gauge locomotive at Statfold. day.

▲ Seen pulling away from the main

station is 1912 Fowler 0-4-02T No.
13355 Saccharine.

▲ Waiting to back onto its train at the

main station is French-built Corpet 0-6-0PT
▲ Seen poweriing uphhill th
hrough
h th
he raiin is 1912 Fowller 0-4-02T No. 13355 No 439 Minas de Aller No.2, the oldest
Saccharine on another passenger train. narrow-gauge locomotive at Statfold.

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 RAILWAY Roundabout
▲ Seen heading back to the main station is 1909 Beyer-Peacock K1 with a rake of
Darjeeling coaches.
▲ Heading out to the woodland trail on Mease Valley line is with 2005 Alan Keef
0-6-0 DH locomotive No.73 with another train load of passengers.
▲ There was lots of activity in the shed area getting the locomotives ready for the
day’s work.
▲ Seen in the museum is the 1923
Orenstein & Koppel 0-6-0 No. 10750
Max that worked at the Sragi sugar mill
on the Indonesian island of Java.
▲ Known as Lautoka No 11, this 1912
Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 was built for the
Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd in Fiji and
is seen in Statfold’s museum.
▲ Darjjeelling Himallayan Railway 19B
was built in 1889 by Sharp Stewart & Co
as No. 3518. It is seen on shed after a
long weekend having just hauled its last
passenger train to the station.
The Statfold Barn railway is always
moving forward with new attractions,
especially for families. Now in
operation is the half-mile 12¼in
gauge Mease Valley line with 2005
Alan Keef 0-6-0DH locomotive No.73
on duty, a line that takes visitors to
Mallard Halt near to the railway’s
woodland nature trail and lakeside
walks. This line was exceptionally busy
during my visit, with numerous families
taking the opportunity to explore the
area, while for younger visitors there is
the Fellumpa village that is situated in
the balloon loop at the end of the main
line. Here a series of thatched cottages
are home to the Fellumpas, a colourful
family group who have lived in the
woods for several years, while also in
the vicinity are the Wortles who look
after the local environment.
To develop the theme, a children’s
book has been written by Statfold
founder Graham Lee, while for older
children, the soft play area is a must.
Here the main challenge is the five
themed walls all towering 7.5 metres,
so both children and adults can reach
exciting heights with climbs varying in
difficulty, while the bravest can tackle
the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ where a
‘leap of faith’ is needed to get back
down.
The railway also hosts a number of
events throughout the year, including
a miniature traction engine weekend
that can attract up to 100 engines,
while the Summer Spectacle of Steam
is always a popular event. Other
attractions include a Retro Roller
Disco that is open on certain days,
a model railway show, the October
Spooktacular, and of course their
Santa Specials.
Even if you have been before,
there is likely to be something new to
enjoy, as well as riding on the trains
themselves. One thing is for sure,
there is always something going on at
Statfold. OG
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 The new Museum building at the
Statfold Railway is near Strawberry
Field, close to the railway line and
main museum complex.

NEW TRANSPORT MUSEUM

OPENS AT STATFOLD
David Reed visited the Statfold Barn Railway last July, for the opening of
a new transport museum which has been developed in conjunction with
Transport Museum Wythall.

▲ This 1962 BMMO D9 open-top

double-decker was another bus taking
visitors out on the road. It was new to
Midland Red at Redditch, Nuneaton and
Rugby before giving tours in London
from 1975 until 1981.

J
uly 23 was a special day at the
Statfold Barn Railway with the
opening of a brand-new Transport
Museum to accompany the already-
established heritage narrow-gauge
railway and engine collection that has
developed into an exceptionally popular
attraction in recent years. Situated near
to Strawberry Fields station, the new
collection complements the existing
railway and museum and houses both
commercials and public transport
▲ One of the vintage buses taking visitors on a tour was this 1951 Daimler CVD6
that was new to Birmingham City Transport, passing into preservation in 1971.
vehicles, with visitors able to enjoy TMW showcases the story of public
everything that both the Railway and transport in the City of Birmingham
Transport Museum have to offer. and across the greater West Midlands
Transport Museum Wythall has conurbation. All in all, it houses around
partnered with Statfold to provide the 90 buses that represent 100 years of
public transport element of its new bus history, as well as Europe’s biggest
transport museum. Established at Wythall collection of battery electric delivery
in Worcestershire during the 1970s, vehicles. It is thought that around ten

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▲ Visiting the railway was Wythall’s
1967 Bristol RELL6L that was delivered
to Cheltenham District and worked until
1981.
buses will be on display at Statfold at any
one time, with the line-up being rotated
from time to time, ensuring a fresh line-up
of vehicles on display.
It won’t just be a static display though,
with a couple of buses taking visitors to
on trips to enjoy the local countryside.
Buses on transport duty during the new
venture’s first weekend were JOJ 707,
a 1951 Daimler CVD6 that served
Birmingham City Transport for 20 years,
together with 3016 HA, a 1962 BMMO
D9 open-top double-decker. This vehicle
was extremely popular over the weekend,
it had worked for Midland Red until
1974, before being converted to an
open-top vehicle a year later and working
in London until 1981.
Other buses from TMW on display
included UHA 956H, a 1970 BMMO
S23 that entered service at Kidderminster
garage when new and stayed there until
being withdrawn in 1981, while KOX
780F was another Birmingham double-
decker, this time a 1968 Daimler Fleetline
CRG6 that worked from various garages
until it was retired in 1982 and then
bought by the museum.
XDH 516G was one of Walsall
▲ Wythall’s buses lined up in the
new transport museum certainly
complemented the Statfold Barn
Railway’s exhibits.
Corporation’s fleet of 1969 Daimler
Fleetline CRG6LXs with unusual Northern
Counties bodywork designed by Ronald
Egdley Cox, while emanating from the
London area was MMX 23, a 1952
AEC Regal IV 9821LT. This example
remained in service until 1979 before
entering into preservation, passing to the
museum in 1994. Also on site was KHW
306E, a 1967 Bristol RELL6L that served
Cheltenham District until 1981, while the
oldest vehicle from the TMW collection
at Statfold was RC 4615, a 1937 AEC
Regal 0662 that was re-bodied in 1950.
Withdrawn in 1958, it was bought by
a contractor and used for staff transport
before passing to TMW in 1984.
“We’re proud to be working in
partnership with the Statfold team in
providing the public transport element
of the exciting new museum and look
forward to helping develop the displays
in future years”, said Dave Taylor,
TMW chairman. “Visitors are also
very welcome to join us at Wythall to
experience the wider story.”
Of course, Statfold’s resident vehicles
also feature in the new museum. Here
a number of Macks that had been part
▲ 1901 Fowler B5 road locomotive No.
9177 was once seen on the rally field as
a showman’s engine, but is now back in
its original configuration.
◄ Foden D Type team tractor No. 13222
Elizabeth was new to S Darke & Sons of
Worcester in 1928 and is called Hilda. It
had a number of owners in agriculture
and on the fairground before passing
into preservation.
of Charles Matthew’s heavy haulage
fleet caught the eye. These included a
1953 Mack Special that was built in
Canada for the oil industry and was
later used to move houses in Ontario,
while a B70 that dated from 1955 was
also on show. Continuing the theme,
a couple of RD686s from 1987 and
1992 respectively looked impressive,
while somewhat older was a 1928 AB
that had been restored in the US back
to its original purpose as a utility cable
layer, with the cable drums being fitted
to carrying stools that were inserted into
slots on the flatbed floor. Even older
though was another vehicle that had been
part of the Charles Matthew collection,
namely a 1920s Gotfredson tipper
lorry. The original Gotfredson company
was founded in the 1920s by Benjamin
Gotfredson and Frank Joyce who decided
to assemble vehicles for their own needs,
as well as making some commercially.
This example dated from the 1920s
and was an early petrol tipper. It had
been restored at Statfold using as many
original parts as possible, although a new
cab had to be constructed.
Also on show is a 1962 Austin A60
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▲ 1906 Marshall 7hp general purpose engine No. 46276 Pearl was exhibited at The Smithfield Show and later worked for E W
Wright of Alton in Hampshire. It was bought by Rob Battersby and Phil Steer in 1994.
Cambridge van and a 1948 Series 1
Land Rover, while steam was represented
by a couple of engines. The first was
1901 Fowler B5 road locomotive No.
9177 that has been exhibited as a
showman’s locomotive on the rally scene
before returning to road locomotive
configuration. That was stood alongside
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1928 Foden D Type tractor No. 13222
Elizabeth that was new to S Darke &
Sons of Worcester and called Hilda. It
saw further work in agriculture and on
fairgrounds with its working life ending
in around 1948, then after a couple of
owners in preservation passed into the
Statfold Barn Railway collection.
◄ Packing the power, these Mack
RD686s from 1987 and 1992 had been
part of the Charles Matthews Heavy
Haulage Collection in Canada, arriving
in the UK in 2012.
Also in attendance was Statfold
resident 1906 Marshall 7hp general
purpose engine No. 46276 Pearl,
owned by Rob Battersby and Phil Steer.
This engine was initially exhibited at
the Smithfield Show and was later sold
to Adam Smith of Alton in Hampshire.
It was bought by E W Wright, also of
Alton, before passing to Rotherfield Park
Estate Co in 1953 where it worked on a
saw bench prior to restoration in the late
1950s.
But it was the new transport museum
that was the centre of attention. Graham
Lee, chairman of Statfold Narrow Gauge
Museum Trust, said; “We can’t wait for
visitors to see the collection we’ve created
with Wythall. The trust was designed
to preserve the best of the past for
tomorrow. We’re hoping the new museum
will continue to impress, educate and
inspire all generations.”
As for the railway itself, Lautoka No.
19, a 1914 Hudswell & Clarke 0-4-
0ST that worked at Fiji’s largest sugar

mill at Lautoka where it hauled trains
of bagged sugar between the mill and
shipping wharf, was also to be seen in
action, as was Alpha, a 1922 0-6-0PT.
This locomotive was originally ordered
in 1915 for a customer in Rhodesia, a
contract that was subsequently cancelled
with the engine eventually being supplied
to Begg, Sutherland & Co for use at their
Indian sugar mill.
There are new attractions in the offing
on the railway too, with work on a new
miniature line hoping to be completed
over the winter months, with other
extensions also being planned. But the
focus at present is on the new transport
museum, with the new displays and the
railway complementing each other. It
▲ This 1928 Mack AB on the left was
restored in North America to its original
purpose as a utility cable layer, while the
1920s Gotfredson tipper lorry was part
of the Charles Matthew’s collection and
was restored at Statfold using as many
original parts as possible.
◄ In great condition, this 1962 Austin
A60 Cambridge van was sited near the
entrance of the museum.
▼ Seen on the railway working hard
near Oak Tree Station was Lautoka No.
19, a 1914 Hudswell & Clarke 0-4-0ST
that worked Fiji’s largest sugar mill at
Lautoka,
◄ Alpha is a 1922 0-6-0PT which was
built by Hudswell, Clarke & Co and was
one of only five of the class that was
built at the Railway Foundry in Leeds. It
is seen near Oak Tree Halt, one of the
stations on the line.
is great to see the two organisations
working together, which can only be of
benefit to both, and as I was told, “We
are always trying to move forward at
Statfold.”
For further details, the Transport
Museum Wythall and the Statfold Barn
Railway’s comprehensive websites are
well worth a visit. OG
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‘RUSTIC RENAULT’
– 1926 RENAULT OS LORRY

Historic European commercial vehicles are rarely seen in Britain, but every so often
one manages to hop across the Channel. This 1926 Renault was discovered on an
amble around rural France 45 years ago and, one restoration later, it became a
stalwart of the British preservation scene. Zack Stiling tells the story.

A
t any British commercial vehicle
rally, one can expect to see a
rich array of historic vehicles,
but almost all will be British-made. This
hardly requires any explanation – with
such a strong lorry-building industry of
our own, there has been little cause for
importing foreign products – but it does
mean one generally has to book a trip to
the Continent if ever one wishes to see
foreign marques. There are exceptions
to the rule, though, such as this delightful
1926 Renault OS bétaillère which has
had just two owners in its 97-year life,
the last 45 of which have been spent in
rural Kent.
It would be misleading to say that
it was imported in 1978 by vintage
vehicle enthusiast Ian Macdonald
because he was not really an enthusiast
when he bought it. He was interested
in mechanical things to the same extent
that many men are but, at 38 years old,
he had never actively sought an historic
vehicle. That all changed with a holiday
to France.
“I wasn’t looking for it,” he says. “I
was on a perambulation in a remote
part of France and there, in this open
barn, was the truck. There was nobody
there, so I walked around, had a look
and went away, and a few days later
some friends from the UK came down
and had a look. There was a little
cottage there, an elderly couple came
out and the first thing they said was ‘It’s
for sale.’ The husband of the couple
was the original owner, in his eighties.
I’d seen it had a crack in the block, but

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▲ The famous coal-scuttle bonnet is a
hallmark of vintage Renaults.
almost everything was there down to
the agricultural wheels with blades for
muddy fields.”
After going away and thinking about
it some more, he decided it would make
a nice project. “I had to think how to get
it back. First of all was the deal. I knew
a French girl who lived nearby and she
was the go-between.”
The lorry, which was in Cantal, a
department of Auvergne, had broken
down during the Second World War,
and the engine had either frozen or
been run without water, resulting in the
cracked block. It was then left in an old
stone barn until about a week before
Ian went walking in the area, when the
owner’s son pushed it into the open in
the hope of attracting a buyer.
Rather than transporting it by rail,
Europ Assistance would transport it all
▲ The round badge was leftover 1925
stock, as in 1926 Renault adopted its
distinctive diamond.
the way to the ferry at Dieppe for the
very reasonable price of £100, or about
1000 francs, and then it just had to be
delivered from the English port to the
farm in Kent where storage for it had
been arranged. The nerve-wracking part
of the journey was being told to drive
it down the ramp onto the ferry, which
was filled up with new Peugeots and
the like, as there had not yet been any
opportunity to properly test the brakes.
It later transpired that one of the brakes
was being operated by just a single
strand of cable, but they held out long
enough. “I got it back to the farm in
Sundridge and put it in an open-ended
Nissen hut,” Ian says. “Fortunately
the farmer was an engineer and into
Bentleys.”
Then a resident of Croydon, his
restoration efforts were rewarded with a
▲ Solid disc wheels were suitably tough
for agricultural use.
front-page story in the local Advertiser,
which told an entirely made-up story
of how a set of spark plugs and a new
magneto were all that was required to
get the Renault running again. In fact,
the engine had to be completely rebuilt,
with the aforementioned crack being
repaired, although the internals were
mostly intact and could be reused. The
brakes, of course, had to be completely
overhauled, too. “The gearbox jumped
out of first,” he adds, “but that wasn’t a
problem because you never use first.”
The only missing parts were the
magneto and horn. “Ron Westall, who
did the white-metalling, had a house in
the Dordogne. He went to a market and
the first thing he saw was a junk stall
with exactly the right horn on it for a
fiver.”
The Renault’s original body was well-
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▲ Vents provide airflow for the scuttle-
mounted radiator.
▲ The interior is typically spartan.
preserved but, says Ian, “The mistake I
made was to paint her, but she did need
it. It’s the same colour as it was, French
blue, or as near as I could get to French
blue over here. I was doing it out in a
field with horses, with dust and hay, so
painting it was difficult.” The bonnet
was later repainted in a complementary
shade after it was removed for some
engine work and, while neatly stored, a
stone wall collapsed next to the wall of
the barn, taking part of the barn with it
and doing some damage to the bonnet.
One of the Ducellier headlamps was
missing its bezel, but a bezel from a
Rover P5 was found to be a perfect fit.
Once the restoration was completed,
the Renault was sent out onto the rally
circuit and, over several decades and
thousands of miles, it proved a to be
a very dependable old machine. Ian
joined the Historic Commercial Vehicle
Society and entered the Renault in the
1980 London to Brighton Run, which
was to be the first of many it completed.
In those days, Renault was very helpful
and enthusiastic about supporting
owners of its historic vehicles, and Tony
Ronald, who was the Press and PR
Manager for Renault UK, did everything
he could to uncover information about
its old lorries and generally make living
with the OS as easy as possible. The
two of them, with John Kemsley and
George Dorrington, established Renault
Frères, the club for pre-1940 Renaults,
in 1984, and the OS has since been on
many Continental rallies with them to
France, Belgium and Holland.
Finding himself enjoying the OS,
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▲ Owner Ian Macdonald was a founder ▲ The Cantal markings were on the
member of the Renault Frères Club. Renault when it was discovered.
▲ The seat cushions are well-worn but ▲ The only gauge on the dash panel is
perfectly comfortable. an ammeter.
Ian has since also bought a 1912
Renault AX and a 1900 De Dion Bouton
3½hp vis-à-vis, and it is partly on
account of those somewhat diverting
stablemates that the OS has seen little
use since 2010. However, it has just
been recommissioned and I am taken
for a pleasant spin around the village,
where one imagines the old workhorse
must feel very much at home among
the Kentish fruit farms and rows of ▲ A cut-out had to be made to allow the
hops, which are a more than adequate accelerator to reach its full travel.
substitute for the French vines.
On the road, Ian explains, “The
ride is a commercial vehicle ride. It’s
designed for heavy loads so with just
two people in it the suspension is stiffer.
You don’t notice it on smooth French
roads, but you do on potholed English
ones. It’s got plenty of brakes. They’re
on four wheels, so they’re perfectly
adequate. The steering is heavy but it’s
fine, and the gear-changing is fine once
you get used to it. To all intents and ▲ Many vintage Renaults used a
purposes it’s a modern vehicle, with a Dynastart.
four-cylinder engine, three speeds and
reverse, whereas the AX and De Dion
are completely different. It’ll do 30-
35mph but I’ve never really driven it flat
out because you just don’t do that with
an old vehicle.”
In all its time over here, the Renault is
believed to have been the only example
of its kind in Britain. One expects the
OS to be more numerous in France, but
even over there it must be something of
a rarity, as evidenced by the fact that
one historian, the author of a history
of Renault lorries who encountered this ▲ Ian has now cared for the Renault for
example at a rally, was aghast to learn 45 years.
▲ This shows the breadth of Renault’s commercial line in the late 1920s.
▲ Ian stands proudly with the lorry following its restoration.
of its existence as he had completely
overlooked it when writing his book.
On the subject of books, information
on early Renault lorries is not easy to
come by, which is a pity because the
story is an interesting one. Commercial-
bodied Renaults were in existence as
least as early as 1900, the marque
itself having only been established the
previous year. These early commercials
were simply cars with light van or
pick-up bodies, but fully purpose-
built commercial chassis were added
to the range in the late 1900s, with
payloads ranging from 14cwt to 3½
tons. Various bodies were offered, from
straightforward delivery vans to covered
flatbeds.
While the 1914-1918 war was
devastating for all the great European
nations caught up in it, it was not
without its advantages for lorry-makers,
and Renault was among those which
benefitted to some extent from military
contracts. It was already producing
lorries and gun tractors for the French
military by 1911, and production of
military chassis reached some 300 per
month during the war. Tests undertaken
by the France’s Ministry of War rated
Renault’s tractors superior to Berliet’s
and Latil’s and, come the Armistice,
Renault’s reputation for trusty, durable
commercial chassis was secured. It
moved into the 1920s with quite a vast
array of different chassis and engines,
from one to 7½ tons, the largest being
powered by a 7.9-litre four-cylinder
engine, with increasingly specialised
applications.
The 10hp OS type arrived in 1925
with a payload of 1-1½ tons. From
1926, one of the most interesting
applications for the OS chassis was as
a dumper truck with hydraulic cylinders
tilting the bed, but what is impressive is
the effort that has gone into making it
attractive. The featured OS wears what
is known in France as a bétaillère body,
which in the English-speaking world
would be a cattle truck or livestock
transporter. While it scarcely looks big
enough or strong enough to contain a
fully-grown bullock, there are some rings
to the rear to the cab which might have
been ideal for tethering smaller animals
such as goats or sheep. Considering
that it was destined from the outset for
rough use around a farm, it was hardly
necessary to shape the timbers used for
▲ By 1978, almost 40 years in a French
barn had made the OS very scruffy.
the body frame but the body-builders
did it anyway. We can only conclude
that the workers of old took a pride in
their labour that the minds behind the
robot production lines of today will
never understand or appreciate.
Another interesting detail is the
bonnet badge. The famous Renault
diamond was not introduced until the
end of 1925, prior to which the badges
were simple circles. The 1920s, of
course, was a time when nothing was
thrown away unnecessarily, and since
there was still a stock of left over circle
badges to be used up, they continued
to be used on commercial vehicles
for some time after the passenger
cars started using the elegant new
diamonds.
Sadly, it has been decided that the
Renault will now be offered for sale
on account of the lack of use it has
seen in the last 13 years, with the AX
and De Dion, which are rather more
manageable in modern traffic, being
used in its stead. It is always a shame
to part with a vehicle when one has
restored it, driven it all over the place
and cherished it for over four decades,
but hopefully the OS will find an
enthusiastic owner who will put it back
on the rally circuit once more. After
giving faithful service both as a working
vehicle and as an historic preservation
piece, it well deserves to be seen by a
new crowd of admirers.
The sale of the Renault is being
handled by Geoff Crabtree. Enquiries
should be made to Geoff at Penland
Farm, New House Lane, Pluckley,
Kent, TN27 0RX, or by calling 07836
383450 or e-mailing crabtree@
bicknorpark.co.uk OG
OLD GLORY DECEMBER 2023 | 63
With Harris’s famous South Downs
Gallopers and other rides being built
up in the background the new dodgems
floor plates are already down and the
housing is under construction.

FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION!
David Vaughan reports on a new dodgem track for Solly Harris.

D
o you remember the 1973 film
That’ll be the Day starring David
Essex and Ringo Starr in which
Essex signs on as a gaff boy for a
travelling fair? In the film, which features
some of the best of 50s and 60s music,
he is seen swinging from car to car
on the waltzer and on the dodgems
collecting fares and making passes at
all the ladies. Other pop stars such as ▲ With the roof now on the build up is well underway.
Adam Faith also had cameo rolls in
what was a cracking good nostalgia
romp. I wonder if you can still get it on
DVD?
Of all the rides guaranteed to get a
girlfriend screaming and cuddling up
to you back in the day the dodgems
must come out tops. Today the dodgem
track is still, to my mind anyway, one of
the top fairground attractions so I was
pleased to see, at this year’s Festival of
Transport at Hellingly in East Sussex,
that Solomon Harris had bought along a ▲ Solly has gone all modern with the wing boards, using vinyl overlays on plastic
dodgem track which he had purchased with pictures from his original artwork.
from the Cole family earlier this year.
This is the third set of dodgems that such as Scammells and AEC Matadors. 1987 and he in turn sold it to his cousin
the Harris family have owned, the first I was on site for the build-up. Even with Bill in 2002. Solly purchased the ride
belonged to Solly’s grand-dad and the a modern version of the track using light- from him in February this year and it
second was toured by the late Fred weight materials this still takes some time is currently 60ft x 40ft. Being smaller
Harris. and skill to achieve. means that it is easier to set up and
Solomon, better know to family and The track was the last of the famous can be taken to smaller showgrounds,
friends as Solly, is a younger member Supercar tracks to be built using making it more versatile. It only needs
of the Harris family whose touring fair rounded, as opposed to square, ends. two packing trucks, plus a towed
is now, as far as I am aware, the only Originally it was one of the largest of paybooth. Since purchasing the track it
remaining travelling fair with genuine its type on tour in the UK being 100 has undergone a complete repaint with
Victorian-era rides all transported behind feet long. It was new to Alf Weadbrook newly decorated trellis, rounding and
vintage and classic commercial vehicles in 1977. Alf sold it to Charles Cole in front end decorative boards.

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▲ The eighteen Reverchon Cobra cars are all laid out ready for testing. ▲ Before opening, all the cars are
thoroughly inspected, giving readers this
unusual view of the underneath of one of
the cars which is having an axle bearing
replaced on the rear steering wheel.

▲ Solly’s 1946 Thornycroft Trusty, which was originally a tower wagon for the
Stockport tram system, is in the foreground and the tilt is on the roof of the track ▲ Here we see the Foden generator
which is almost ready for the opening of the fair on the next day. truck which has push-poled the packing
van into position during the build-up.

▲ This ex-Cole’s ERF E-series eight-

wheeler came with the ride and carries
the cars and floor plates in its specially-
built box body

▲ This Foden has been in the Harris fleet for some time but now carries the
generator set for the dodgems that originally powered a skid ride. It is undergoing a
complete repaint which will be finished during the winter shut-down.

The track is still able to accommodate
18 cars which makes it a viable
commercial proposition. The cars are
Reverchon Cobra models dating from
1987. In the old days the floor plates
were heavy steel and most of the
superstructure would be of steel and
wood, making it very heavy to build
up and take down. This track is all
aluminium but, as you will see from the
accompanying pictures, it still makes up
into a considerable structure.
The dodgems came complete with
three new tilts and an ERF E-series
eight-wheeler that carries the cars on
the upper two decks of a specially-built
body, with the floor plates on the lower
deck floor. All the rest of the set-up is
carried in a packing van that is towed
by Harris’s Gardner 270-powered
S10-cabbed Foden that also caries
the powerful generating set that came
from another ride. The neat little pay
booth is towed behind Solomon’s 1946
Thornycroft Sturdy that has featured in a ▲ John Harris is the driver of one of the
previous Old Glory article. Harris family’s trusty AEC Matadors used
After a wet start to the bank holiday to transport and build up the rides. It
weekend the show was a success and has an 11.3 litre diesel AEC diesel fitted
the dodgems were a popular ride. and a Harris-rebuilt crew cab. The Hiab
Watch out for them at rallies in the south- loader is a very useful bit of kit.
east next year and, whatever your age,
be sure to jump aboard a car with your David Essex though, he might be older
partner and enjoy riding to the sound now but he might still try and pinch your
of 50s and 60s music. Watch out for girlfriend! OG

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Old Glory contributor Allan Bedford tells the story behind his new book

▲ One of the three heavyweight horse-drawn pantechnicons featured, this one built around 1911 was finished in royal blue.
Buckleys of Plumstead became well-known locally for their Dennis charabancs and later coaches, trading as Buckleys ‘Royal Blue
Safety Coaches.’

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▲ The massive Cannon & Gaze Flourmill situated on the river front adjacent to the Lower High Street opened in 1903. Between
1905-09 a fleet of seven Foden steamers were purchased. This one, No. 989 (M974) was new in 1905, but is seen after
refurbishment by Hamptons some years later. (Peter Love adds sold and de-licenced 11/12/21.)

▲ This is the photograph of the Daimler I have had since 1973. Mitchells was the town’s department store until closure in 1961.

S
ome 50 years ago, back in 1973
my obsession with motor transport
took a slight deviation when,
with my wife we joined the newly
formed Erith & Belvedere Local History
Society in our home town. This soon
provided dividends as some of the
‘leading lights’ had connections with
the Borough’s local studies department
providing ‘surplus’ copy photos of local
trams, early commercials, including
steam wagons and charabanc outings,
etc, which I still cherish.
At one of the early monthly meetings
a member in his seventies brought
along a small collection of photographs
depicting early commercials built by
a local coachbuilder around the First

OLD GLORY DECEMBER 2023 | 69

Ê
▲ Evelyn Haines Jones opened his lorry agency in Farnborough near Bromley in 1911. In 1915 he became an agent for Detroit-
built Federal trucks and sent a number of them to Hamptons for bodywork. This advert from the Kent Messenger of 7 October
1916 features one of them. Some pages in the book help to tell his story.

▲ The Fordson BB mobile library built by Hamptons in 1933. Photo: courtesy of Bexley Archives

70 | DECEMBER 2023 OLD GLORY


▲ Seen tucked away at Wroughton in 2001. Let’s hope the rumours of a return of
the once-popular open days happen soon.
BSA motor cycles and Austin cars.
The premises were included in the
wholesale redevelopment of the town in
the late sixties and were soon cleared.
I often wondered what became of
this fabled collection and through the
benefits of local Facebook reminiscing
pages and a very alert fellow
enthusiast and retired Kent fireman
John Meakins in Dartford who zoomed
in on them after they miraculously
surfaced in October last year.
A former resident and
granddaughter of Jack Clarke
acquired them many years ago with
the passing of her father, and thought
a few locals might like to see them.
John immediately alerted myself and
others and urged by me made contact
▲ One of the Dartford-built Hallfords with the lady who was happy to loan
features on the cover and was registered this collection of over 100 stunning
in Maidstone as D9892 on 2 June 1913. photographs for scanning.
The collection spanning the years
World War period, which he said 1900-34 provides a potted history of
belonged to a neighbour. the premises occupied at the turn of the
I was amazed to discover that century by James Marshall, evolving
our then heavily industrialised town to Privett & Marshall by 1905, then
had once been home to this thriving in 1911 the Marshall connection is
business based just yards from the river, broken and William Hampton becomes
and asked in vain on several occasions Privett’s new partner, but merely a year
to see the collection. He did however later records show that Hampton is
give me a copy photograph of an early now in sole charge until the business
Daimler van. is wound up 20 years later. Evolution
The coachbuilder had ceased of the business can be followed by
trading around 1934 and the studying the coachbuilder’s oval boards
assortment of sheds and outbuildings seen on most of the photographs.
behind the High Street had then The collection includes everything
passed to a local man, Jack Clarke, from a milk pram, traps and wagons,
who opened a garage business selling through to examples of vans, lorries
petrol and also became an agent for and charabancs, built on chassis of
over 20 different makers including
some rare ones. These include some
Hallfords from Dartford and Federals
from Detroit. The company were
commissioned to build vehicle bodies
for the vast Vickers Armament factories
based in Erith and neighbouring
Crayford.
Although many of the vehicles in the
photos do not display a registration,
some of these were traced following a
visit to the Kent History & Library Centre
in Maidstone. The original ledgers
for vehicles registered in Kent from
December 1903 until the seventies can
be viewed. The dates of registration,
registration number, colour and unladen
weight were found for most of them and
are included in the captions.
The most famous and only surviving
example of the coachworks is the
Fordson BB mobile library van which
has been hidden away in the Science
Museum collection at Wroughton for
decades. A chapter is devoted to this
trend-setting vehicle; in the years that
followed the van’s layout was widely
copied and became known in library
circles as the ‘Erith type’, having
separate entrance and exit at the rear,
with the librarian’s desk between them.
The vehicles featured went to
customers over a wide area. In the
London area it included Bromley,
Croydon, Greenwich, Woolwich
and on the fringes Hatfield, Southall,
Watford and Weybridge, and in Kent
Ashford, Maidstone, Sittingbourne and
Tonbridge. The furthest in the UK is a
Hallford supplied to Liverpool, but the
record by far is a Dartford-built Hallford
exported to Ceylon (Sri Lanka)!
With support and help from John
Meakins, Bob Moorman, Adrian
Herbert and Barry Lucking the idea
of a book to record them for posterity
was conceived. A specialist small-
run Kent publisher was recommended
and Ed Adams has published an
outstanding 130-page book. So even if
the photographs get lost again or split
up and sold the book provides a lasting
record of lost skills, carriage makers,
coach builders, wheel wrights, coach
painters and varnishers, sign writers,
coach liners and canvas makers and
also celebrates the photographers who
captured these moments in time.
It is available from Allan
Bedford, Courtlans, Old Tiverton
Road, Crediton, Devon EX17 1EE at
£18 including postage. Please make
cheques payable to A Bedford. If
you wish to pay by BACS please
send email in first instance to
allanbbedford@yahoo.co.uk. OG
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AN ASSORTMENT OF RAILWAY-
OWNED STEAM WAGONS - PART 1
In this, the first of his two-part article, our Technical Editor, Derek Rayner tells
us about the various types of steam wagons which were used by the railway
companies in Britain prior to the advent of the now ubiquitous diesel version. All
illustrations are from the Author’s Collection.
Fig 1
I
n the early years of the 20th century,
many of the then existing railway
companies realised the benefits of
road steam vehicles to supplement their
business requirements. OG387 and 388
provided an indication of those in which
steam buses played a part in bringing
passengers to their railways - and taking
them back home again later. Equally
important was the development of
railway parcels services for the collection
and delivery of all manner of products to
and from farms and industrial businesses
and their premises up and down the
country.
When the major shake-up of the
railway companies happened in
Britain in January 1923, four major
organisations were formed - the Great
Western Railway (GWR), the Southern
Railway (SR), both in the south - and the
London Midland Scottish Railway (LMSR)
and the London & North Eastern Railway
(LNER), respectively on the west and east
sides of the country generally to the north
of London. In general, by then the use of
steam for this purpose was waning and
most of the information which follows
relates to the pre-grouping companies
noted below.
Early in the field of the use of steam
wagons for local goods transport
was the North Eastern Railway which
introduced a service to the agricultural
community in the North Riding of
72 | DECEMBER 2023 OLD GLORY
Fig 2
Yorkshire. This was from its station at
Tollerton on the main line to north of
York on to the village of Brandsby, some
ten miles away up in the Howardian
hills to the north east. The farmers there
formed a community organisation by
the name of the Brandsby Agricultural
Trading Association (BATA) which is still
in existence today with its headquarters
in Malton - but it’s expected that many of
today’s customers are unlikely to know
of the company’s origins or what the
abbreviation stands for.
The NER’s first service started in
1904 with a Straker steam wagon, built
in Bristol, and was later extended to
serve other locations in the vicinity such
as Easingwold. Around the same time,
the NER purchased steam lorries from
a number of now somewhat obscure
manufacturers which were producing
similar vehicles - presumably for trial and
assessment purposes. These were St.
Pancras, Londonderry, Thornycroft, and
Coulthard.
Fig 1 A batch of three Straker
wagons, built in Bristol, were the first
examples acquired by the North Eastern
Railway and as far as is known, this
is the very first of them which was put
into service between Tollerton, where
this photo was taken, and Brandsby, to
the north of York. The wagon’s ‘black-
on-white’ registration plate is an early
example of a London-issued trade plate
since that’s where the manufacturer’s
firm’s head office was located. Only one
Straker wagon is known to still exist - it’s
in poor condition and is located in New
Zealand.
Fig 2 Possibly the first of the North
Eastern Railway’s six Londonderry
steam wagons which were constructed
at Seaham Harbour, Co Durham, in
1905/6. The photograph was taken,
perhaps on delivery, outside the NER
Headquarter’s offices close to York
station, a location still recognisable
today by means of the stone steps
leading up to the city’s walls. Fire
Engine House No. 1 has, however, been
replaced by the Lutyens memorial to all
those railway staff who perished in the
two World Wars.
Fig 3 The NER spread its
requirements relatively widely when
purchasing its first steam wagons - many
Fig 3
 Fig 4 Fig 5

Fig 6 Fig 7

of which are now from largely unknown Fig 8

manufacturers such as this example from
the St. Pancras firm. It was registered in
September 1905 and is believed to have
been the railway’s Fleet No. 7 but this
has not been able to be confirmed. The
image is again posed adjacent to York’s
city walls.
Fig 4 Another example of a
somewhat little-known manufacturer was
Coulthard. Something which gives the
wagon’s origins away is its registration
mark - an early one from Preston in
Lancashire. None now survive but this
particular wagon - NER Fleet No. 8 - is
pictured in a yard close to York station
with the terrace of houses on Queen
Street in the far background.
Fig 5 The railway company with not known but is believed to have been Halifax had been associated with carpet
possibly the largest fleet of steam in 1918. It is, however, known that the making for a very long time and there
wagons was that of the Lancashire & waggon was allocated to Halifax for had been many examples of cottage
Yorkshire Railway, the headquarters of operational purposes - as were another industries related to the production of
which was at Manchester with its main nine of these waggons from Shrewsbury. cloth in the locality which led to the
works at Horwich, Lancashire. It is Fig 6 This is another example of construction of the town’s now well-
recorded as having as many as thirteen a posed official photograph of an L&Y known Piece Hall back in 1779. The
- all of them being Sentinels. Their Fleet Rly Sentinel waggon - their Fleet No. specific identity of this particular waggon
No. 1 - Sentinel No 2215 - AW 4454 3 - works number 2226 - AW 4474. It’s is not known.
- is pictured in what is obviously an known that the year of build of this one Fig 8 What at first glance may
official photograph along with a trailer, was 1918, hence the waggon in Fig. appear to be a six-wheeled Sentinel
probably also supplied from Shrewsbury 1/5 is presumed to be of the same year. is certainly not - but it appears to be
at the same time as the waggon. Fig 7 This is L&Y Rly Fleet No. 129 a version of an articulated lorry using
Unfortunately, because no official which well illustrates the reason why so a semi-trailer which has straked disc
Sentinel works records exist - these were many of this railway’s Sentinels were wheels at its rear. AW 9113 has been
destroyed by the firm’s new owner in used in and around the Halifax area identified as Sentinel works number
1957 following a take-over - the exact - for the transportation of huge bales 3876 which was new in May 1921 as
date of manufacture of this waggon is associated with the woollen industry. Fleet No. 140 and later, when it came

OLD GLORY DECEMBER 2023 | 73

 Fig 9
Fig 11
under the jurisdiction of the LMS, it was
allocated Fleet No. 58A. In the format
seen here it could well have been used
for heavy equipment transportation such
as boilers, for example. See also Fig 9
for a later image of this same waggon in
a much-battered condition obviously after
several years of use - or even misuse!
Whilst the Sentinel waggons of
the L&Y Rly - and later the LMS - were
clearly very well-used in Yorkshire’s
Heavy Woollen District, another Sentinel
was purchased by the LNER in 1924
as it clearly believed that competition
in the area was a useful thing to have.
This was Super No. 5284 - which was
registered XR 2554 at the railway’s
headquarters in London during February
1924 - and which worked around the
Bradford area.
Fig 9 The same waggon as in
Fig 8 having been numbered 58A at
Grouping by the LMS. Judging by the
decorations on both of the containers,
it’s assumed that it was taking part in a
carnival in Halifax and thus advertising
one of the products it carried from
the local sweet manufacturers of
Mackintosh’s.
The LMS are recorded as having
another two Sentinels, both DG4 models
and consecutively numbered. These
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Fig 10
Fig 12
were Nos. 8019 and 8020 which were
obtained second-hand in 1930 from
the Premier Waterproof Rubber Co. of
Manchester, which organisation had
bought them new in September 1929.
Fig 10 The London & North Western
Railway, known as the ‘Premier Line,’
was an early owner of two Foden
wagons; these first examples being
purchased for an assessment exercise
in the cartage of goods items at the
beginning of the 1900s. The first of this
pair was Foden No. 938 (M 859) with
a registration date of 20 June 1905;
the customer being given as Alfred
Entwhistle, District Superintendent,
Chester - and it was allocated LNWR
Fleet No. 1A. It’s pictured prior to a
local cartage service being introduced
between Holywell and Holywell Station
in the county of Flintshire in North
Wales for which it was later painted
accordingly. The records of the Road
Locomotive Society indicate that a
subsequent owner was Allan Thomason
of Greenfield and then, from May 1925,
it was operated by Jno Williams of
Talacre, both of these locations being
also in the same county of Flint.
Fig 11 This is also Foden No.
938 in the early 1900s, in use on the
Flintshire trial with Entwhistle’s name
visible of the wagon’s frame. The second
of the two Fodens was No. 940 (M
856) - Fleet number 2A. They were both
delivered in a red and black livery; this
latter also being registered on the same
date and destined for the same District
Superintendent at Chester. However this
location is crossed out in the records and
substituted by Birmingham for working in
that area. No. 940 later passed into the
ownership of the LMS on the railway’s
groupings in 1923. In March 1926 it
was returned to Foden’s, perhaps as
a result of a part-exchange deal for
another wagon, and was then scrapped.
Fig 12 This is a later example of
a Foden wagon owned by the London
& North Western Railway and is works
number 2150 - M 2620. It was supplied
on 29 April 1910 and was used for
collection and delivery purposes in and
around Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire.
The wagon was also lettered
accordingly as a means of publicising its
activities in the area.
Both the Foden records at the
Cheshire Archives and the Road
Locomotive Society’s records have been
consulted during the preparation of this
article, access to both of which has been
very much appreciated. OG
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INTERESTING DISCOVERIES IN KASSEL

▲ The strange piece of Henschel-made equipment, the

▲ The venerable 1905 electric loco at the museum - with, purpose of which was unable to be specifically identified.
inset, it’s worksplate. Inset is its 1905 works plate.

A
little while ago, Old Glory’s long- was constructed as late as 1952 - but all fortunately still in existence - the
standing friend in Germany, Busso later in 1955, the firm did manufacture Henschel-Ottomeyer examples - three of
Hennecke, drove to the city of four all-welded boilers for the quartet which are in museums elsewhere whilst
Kassel and visited the Technik-Museum of huge ploughing engines which are the other one is in private hands.
Kassel (Kassel Technical Museum), part
of which was located in some of the
former Henschel Production Halls.
Henschel’s went out of business
some five years ago, but over time they
manufactured much steam-powered
equipment, including locomotives and
steam rollers, as well as trams, aircraft
and many other products.
Not surprisingly, Busso found a
number of the firm’s products on display
in the museum and these included a
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from 1905, a motor roller – No. 5458
of 1959 - some machine tools and also
an item which looked very much like
a kitchen stove. Unfortunately, he was
unable to identify the use to which this
latter item was put - but he suggested
that it may have been a ‘fantasy project’
for the apprentices at one time.
Elsewhere in the city, near the
Autobahn, outside the premises of
Hermann Riede, a road contractor, he
also discovered a parked-up Henschel-
built steam roller on show – No. 3781
dating from 1935. Incidentally, the last
steam roller which Henschel produced

► The 1935 Henschel steam roller at the

premises of Hermann Reide in Kassel.
All: Busso Hennecke

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▲ A 1959 Henschel-built motor roller was on display in the ▲ A belt-driven lathe and a drill were just some of the machine
museum. tools which were made by the firm over time.

A ‘NEW’ STEAM ROLLER FOUND IN ITALY

B
elgian resident Wouter Van Poucke
was on holiday in Italy earlier this
year. He is a regular driver on the
steam railway at Maldegem, as also is
Vintage World contributor Kevin Hoggett
who also lives in Belgium. Wouter was
driving along the road SP24 in Valeggio
sul Mincio, some 20 miles to the west of
Verona in the north of the country where,
close to the Casa Bodron, he came
across a very rusty steam roller. Knowing
of Kevin’s interest in all things steam, he
therefore stopped and photographed it.
The machine was an Italian-built
Breda, manufactured in Milan and
fortunately it still had its original
worksplate attached, which he also duly
pictured.

▲ The newly-discovered Breda steam

roller in Northern Italy.

◄ Another view of the roller with, inset,

it’s worksplate indicating it’s No. 10117
which would potentially provide a year
of it’s manufacture of around 1927.
All: Wouter Van Poucke,

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Vintage W RLD
The Henschel-built and now plinthed Mallet loco
at Vila Real - with, inset, its works plate which
remarkably is still in situ, perhaps as a result of its
height off the ground.
STEAM FINDS AT VILA REAL
▲ This unidentified (by works number)
Fowler compound steam roller is not
easily photographed as a result of it
being surrounded by a chain-link fence.
T
he Portuguese town of Vila Real
was, until 2009, served by a
highly scenic metre gauge railway
from Regua in the Douro Valley where
there was the broad gauge connection
to and from Porto, writes Kevin
Hoggett.
Until 1990, the line had extended
further north to Chaves, close to
the Spanish border and was steam
worked until the late 1970s. Today,
the station building and platforms still
stand at Vila Real but without track. In
probably any other Western European
country this railway would have
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▲ However, a way was found to achieve
a suitable image.
All: Rika Laporte except where shown
certainly been preserved as a tourist
attraction…
Close to the old turntable and level
crossing, a Fowler compound steam
roller is displayed in a small fenced-
off compound: this is good to protect
the machine but makes it somewhat
difficult to see and photograph it. Also
it hinders getting up close to attempt its
identification since the Fowler maker’s
plate is missing.
About a hundred yards (approx
90 metres) away, in a park in front
of the station building, an 0-4-4-0T
Mallet articulated loco is on a plinth
▲ One of the two surviving locos at
Regua in a somewhat now very rusty
and derelict condition. The other is to
its right hidden by the ever increasing
vegetation. Several other similar locos
have previously been removed from
here for restoration and preservation
elsewhere. Photo: Kevin Hoggett
and on display. This was constructed
by Henschel of Cassel (old spelling),
in Germany, as No. 89160 in 1908.
She carries the number MD 409,
her original Minho-Douro railway
line number, but she was latterly in
service in 1976 in Porto as CP No E
169. Heavier 2-4-6-0T Mallets had
eventually replaced her and her sisters
on the steeply-graded line through Vila
Real, two of which can still be seen
rusting away next to the turntable in
Regua.
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ADMIRAL, ESTONIA’S ONLY SEA-GOING STEAMSHIP

D
uring a cruise ship stop at Tallinn in
Estonia, Old Glory correspondent
Phil Barnes found Estonia’s only
sea-going steamship in the marina by
the Hestia Hotel Europa, not far from the
cruise ship terminal.
The vessel in question is the Admiral,
which was originally constructed as
an auxiliary supply boat to service the
Russian Navy and also to undertake tug-
boat duties when required. She was built
in the Dubitski shipyard in St. Petersburg
as yard No. 711 and was launched in ▲ Admiral moored outside the hotel in ▲ The other (port) side of the vessel
1956 and was originally known as the Tallinn. taken from the quayside.
Admiralteets. After many years of use, she
came out of service in the early 1990s On the subject of the past, Admiral still
and was registered as a historic vessel at has her original 500ihp triple expansion
the Estonian Maritime Museum. steam engine as her prime mover. This
Roll on to 1996; this being the year was built in Taganrog, Russia and is
that she was rebuilt in Tallinn from her supplied with steam from a diesel oil-fired
original form (looking like a tug), and boiler which was originally coal fired.
when she subsequently became a saloon Still on the subject of steam, the vessel’s
steamer. One of her new roles was as steering system is steam-powered but,
a floating restaurant and this involved conversely, there are now fitted many
taking up to 60 passengers for sea modern aids to navigation, such as a
cruises around Tallinn Bay whilst enjoying radar system. ▲ A close-up of the ▲ An interesting
a meal. Another ‘new’ feature of the In summing up, Admiral is 32.2 metres ship’s funnel and information board
Admiral is that the vessel now houses a (100ft) long, has a beam of 7.6mtr (25ft) also the whistle. provided some
small museum which features photos and with a draft of 4mtr (13ft). Her gross details of the vessel.
artefacts from bygone days. registered tonnage is 262. Photos: Phil Barnes

STEAM ROLLERS AT WORK IN INDIA

IN THE MID-1970S
R
ob Dickinson, who was later to
create his ‘International Steam’
website - internationalsteam.co.uk/
rollers/indiarollers.htm - has very kindly
sent these two photographs to the
magazine as he believed they would be
of interest to readers. They depict steam
rollers in use in India almost fifty years
ago, at a time when these machines had
disappeared from the roads in Britain
and when preservation of road steam ▲ The engine and boiler unit of this
vehicles such as these was in full swing ▲ In early 1976. an unidentified (by clearly well-maintained TATA-Marshall
here. works number) Marshall single-cylinder roller were made in Gainsborough and
Rob’s first visit to India was during roller was seen paused in a typical shipped to India to be completed by
January 1976 and was an introductory Indian city-scape in Calcutta. TELCO at its works at Jamshedpur in
family tour of India when, amongst other north-east India. In early 1976 it was
places, they visited the city of Calcutta he accompanied his late friend Peter engaged in laying tarmac in Ooty. Both:
- now Kolkata. He was pleasantly Michie and they experienced much Rob Dickinson
surprised whilst there to come across a steam haulage on Indian railways. This
Gainsborough-manufactured Marshall inevitably included a special visit to the It runs from Mettupalyam via Coonor
steam roller which was engaged in road- sole rack-operated line in the Nilgiris in to Udhagamandalam (also known as
making duties - something he’d not seen the south of the country - a line on which Ootacamund) but is better known by its
at home for quite a while. steam is still in use today. This railway is shortened version of the name - ‘Ooty’.
Later, in the November of the same a magnet for overseas visitors even now There, a TATA-Marshall roller was seen at
year and during a month-long holiday, because of its uniqueness in the country. work in the town’s streets.

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A -Z OF STEAM VEHICLES
NICK BALDWIN CONTINUES HIS SURVEY OF STEAM VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS
AROUND THE WORLD.
ELSTON
George Elston (1857-1931) of Welby in
Lincolnshire was a threshing contractor
who in his spare time in the 1890s
made small portable engines. These
were typically used on pumps and for
powering showmen’s organs. Using one
of these engines to power his lathe, he
also built a miniature traction engine ten
feet eight inches in overall length. This
together with one of the portables still
exists.

ELWARD
John (and sometimes Mary) Elward of
Polo, Illinois, USA took out the first of
many traction engine patents in 1881.
The ideas were refined with a 4x4
machine in the following year. This
had turntable steering at either end
with power to central bevels by flexible
shaft and thence drive to ring gear
in the wheels. Interestingly, this one
is in John’s name alone and from an
address in Stillwater, Minnesota from
where he refers to what was presumably
the original 4x4 patent taken out by J
Robingson in 1856. This, he points out,
used chains to connect the wheels which
were not practical as they could not be
extended for steering (perhaps he had
not thought of skid-steer). By moving the
drive to the axle centres, there was less
distance for the drive when steering, The Elston traction engine had a single cylinder 4.75 x 6.75 inch bore x stroke
though quite how his flexible shaft supplied with steam at 150psi.
avoided tying itself in knots was not
explained.
In 1882 some patents were still in
joint names and from Polo, Illinois once
more. Additional refinements followed in
1885 from Polo but by then the machine
had only rear-wheel drive and a complex
condenser had been removed.
In 1893 a traction engine appeared
bearing a resemblance to some of the
previous patent drawings. It was called
the New Elward Engine and it was built
by the Avery Planter Co, which was the
name of RH Avery’s early business long
before Avery (which see) became a
famous name after Avery Manufacturing
was formed in 1900.

EMERSON-BRANTINGHAM - see E-B.

EMPIRE
Minard Harder’s Empire Agricultural
Works in Cableshill, New York made
steam portables but possibly nothing
self-propelled. The Empire Mfg Co The 1882 Elward patent drawing shows an ingenious range of novelties, not all of
of Sterling, Illinois was presumably which were fully explained.

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The 1904 Empire from William H Terwilliger could climb ten per cent gradients at
30mph when laden.
unconnected and made vee-twin steam
buggies 1899-1901. This firm changed
hands and there was a final attempt to
sell them, often under the name Sterling,
in 1902.
The Empire name cropped up again
in 1904 with a horizontal twin-cylinder
15 hp automobile with Stephenson link
valve gear from William H Terwilliger
& Co of Amsterdam, New York. It
was said to be the result of four years
experimentation and was well laid out
with water up-front, boiler in the middle
and motor at rear. Mr Terwilliger said
that he would personally supervise each
of the forty to be made in the first year
but it was unlikely that his target was
met.
Curiously, the Empire name in
connection with steam returned to New
York in the mid-1920s with an advanced
car designed by Carl Ubelmesser. It had
a three-cylinder compound engine built
by the Cruban Machine & Steel Corp
in New York, which also assembled the
vehicle. A prototype was built that still
survives but no production cars appear
to have followed.
A -Z OF STEAM VEHICLES
ENDURANCE
Another 1920s American hopeful, the
Endurance appeared from Los Angeles
in 1924. It appears to have been a
continuation of the Coats from Ohio
(which see) with a similar three-cylinder
motor. By the time the project moved
back to Ohio in 1925, this time to
Dayton, an eight-cylinder poppet valve
engine was referred to. It seems that the
Endurance failed to live up to its name
and only a few prototypes were built.
ENFIELD
A traction engine of this name was
produced in Enfield, Middlesex in 1879
but details are scant.
ENGLISH MECHANIC
T Hyler-White (1871-1920) offered plans
for home-built cars in the magazine
The English Mechanic and Mirror of
Science and Art with a steam loco at
its masthead. Beginning in 1899, he
advocated a de Dion petrol engine and
parts where possible or else castings
from his friend David Smith in London’s
East End. A substantial four-wheeled
steam car and a lightweight Bollée-like
three-wheeler followed in 1901/2, after
which came several more petrol cars and
such other household necessities as a
compact organ and player-piano.
A few of the vehicles exist including
a 1903 four-wheel steamer and they
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 A -Z OF STEAM VEHICLES
Said to date from 1904 but appearing to be older, this is a two
ton English Steam Wagon.
are loosely grouped together as English
Mechanics but no doubt were named
after their former builders - one steam
enthusiast was called Lacitcarp (Practical
in reverse!)
ENGLISH STEAM WAGON
A company of this name existed in 1900
in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire though
has left few traces. It appears to have
had access to the patent designs of A
Herschmann, an American that included
a vertical fire tube boiler behind the
driver, compound undertype engine and
gear drive. Herschmann’s ideas were
incorporated in wagons built by the
American Ordnance Co, Bridgeport,
Connecticut, the Columbia Eng Works
of Brooklyn, NY and the mysterious
Mytholm Steam Wagon Co of Mytholm
close to Hebden Bridge (so presumably
connected in some way when it
appeared briefly in 1902).
The English Steam Wagon was
listed all the way through to 1907 and
attracted such prominent customers as
Pickfords (who also favoured Hindley so
presumably tried them all).
Very indistinct view of the Entwisle & Gass shows an open cab ahead of the front
axle.
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1903 five-ton English Steam Wagon in the livery of a local
Hebden Bridge operator.
ENRIGHT
This traction engine or roller was listed
at Petaluna, California in 1859 with no
further details located.
ENTERPRISE
The Enterprise Mfg Co of Columbiana,
Ohio, USA was listed as a maker of
steam rollers in 1890.
ENTWISLE & GASS
This Bolton, Lancashire-based foundry
introduced a steam wagon around 1902
for its own use. It had a vertical boiler
behind the driver with undertype steam
engine geared to the back axle. There
is little evidence that more than one was
built.
EPPLE & BUXBAUM
This German engineering firm in
Augsburg operated in many fields and
produced portable steam engines from
Victorian times through to the 1920s.
Whether self-propelled machines were
available is unclear but diesel tractors
were certainly made in the Second
World War.
ERIE
Erie in Pennsylvania, USA was home to
the City Ironworks which in 1880 began
to offer traction engines. Soon afterwards,
Erie Machine Shop began to build steam
rollers, possibly suggesting a connection.
Amongst these were some unusually small
tandem footpath rollers that lasted well
into the 1920s. By then there was an Erie
Motor Truck Mfg Co, but this relied on
gasoline engines.
ERVIN
Charles and Edward Ervin patented
steam power-assisted steering with a
single-cylinder motor on the chain bobbin
in 1885. They had advanced ideas for
traction engines but the Ervins of Princeton,
Indiana, USA probably did not build any
complete machines.
ESSEX
This name was well-known on a cheap
companion brand to the Hudson gasoline
automobile in America in the inter-war
years, but in 1906 there was a steam
Essex from the Essex Motor Car Co of
Boston, Mass, USA. It had a 15/20hp
single-acting four-cylinder motor and
was only offered as a five-seat tonneau
at a pricey $3,000 in its short life.
Bailey Carriage of nearby Amesbury
probably provided the bodywork and was
considering the complete assembly before
deciding to produce battery-electrics.
ESSLINGEN
The Auto & Technik Museum of Sinsheim,
Germany houses amongst its steam
exhibits a 1917 Fowler showman’s engine
and a 1926 Esslingen steam roller made
nearby in Esslingen am Neckar with serial
number 4155, suggesting a considerable
output.
ESTERER
This prolific maker of steam engines
through the first half of the twentieth
century made some portables, a few of
which appear to have been altered for self-
 A -Z OF STEAM VEHICLES

propulsion in later life. The maker existed

at Altötting, Germany.
The European Traction Engine Register
lists over thirty stationary and portable
survivors.

EUREKA
This was a model name used by Aultman-
Taylor and also the name of the ironworks
in Victoria, Australia where Cowley (which
see) operated. The Eureka Ironworks built
Australia’s last traction engine in 1916.

EUROPEENE
The grand-sounding Societé Européene
d’Automobiles operated in Paris from
1899. It offered three and four-wheelers
with petrol-fired coiled tube flash boilers
and horizontal double-acting engines.
They had two-speed gearboxes and top
speeds of up to 28mph. When these
proved to be difficult to sell, European
This two-ton Erie tandem roller was advertised in Old Glory by Automobiles tried its hand with petrol
www.roadsteam.co.uk. engines but expired in 1903.

EUSKALDUNA
In the mid-1930s, the Company
Euskalduna of Bilbao, Spain was a maker
of railway equipment, steel bridges and
construction machinery. It also made steam
rollers, as did Babcock & Wilcox which
also had a factory in Bilbao that went on to
make diesel lorries in the 1950s.

EVANS
Oliver Evans (1755-1819) of Delaware,
USA began to design a steam propelled
carriage in 1784 and was granted
patents five years later. He is said to have
sent these to England where they were
studied by Trevithick who produced a
model road engine in 1796 and a full-
sized machine in 1801, some thirty years
after Cugnot’s pioneering work.
How far Evans got with his carriage is
unknown, but in 1804/5 he astonished
Museum of Victoria picture of the Eureka Cowley which they restored. The wheels Philadelphia and much further afield when
acted as water tanks. he demonstrated his Orukter Amphibolis.
A picture of this twenty-one-ton cross
between a paddle steamer and a lorry
hangs in the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington DC on which the sketch
alongside is based.

EVERETT
In the 1890s, Milne & Killam made
stationary steam engines of Whitney type
at Everett, Mass, USA. In 1898 one was
fitted to a buggy and a few more replicas
were made into 1899. After that, the
partnership reverted to stationary steam,
though Frank Milne made a steam vehicle
for his own use in 1901.

EVERITT ADAMS - see Farmers Foundry.

Evans’ amphibian appears to have featured 4x4 as well as paddle wheel drive and
the tiny men at the rear give it some scale. EXPRESS - see Mann

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 MARKET PLACE
• www.kelseymarketplace.co.uk • Tel: 01323 833125 • Email: peterlove@madasafish.com

This month we look at a steam portable that was sold in August, Clarke &
Simpson’s Bill Kimball Sale and Cheffins’ October Vintage Collective.

BILL KIMBALL SALE GOES WELL

▲ The complete Barford Perkins THD sold for £1,500 but will ▲ Bill’s locally-built Rapier dragline is also available and is in good
need the works. The WW2 Marshall steam boiler also sold. order. Photo: Peter Love
Photo: Peter Love

C
larke & Simpson scored a big hit
with the Bill Kimball ‘clear out’ sale
at his former USAF Bentwaters,
Suffolk site. Bill needed extra room
for more of his relics in his amazing
extensive museum and off-loaded 230
items through an online sale that finished
in the first half of October.
The two portables offered didn’t make
their reserve and are still available,
however a set of four matching cast iron
Foster of Lincoln steam traction wagon
wheels with axles and leaf springs sold
for £1,800. A 1921 Ford Model T four
door saloon SV 5386 (no paperwork)
which had undergone an extensive
restoration by the previous owner, but
required finishing off, sold for £8,000.
A 1921 Ford Model T van/ pick-up XE
6726 with detachable canvas cover with
its engine stuck through standing around ▲ The original Lanz 55hp went on to sell
sold for £7,400 plus VAT. for £18,000 and has left our shores.
The 1935 Barford & Perkins THD roller Photo: Peter Love
No.191876-21, engine No. CA7809,
with single-cylinder petrol donkey engine Bulldog 2DW 45hp D1506 hot bulb
and twin-cylinder diesel engine and No. 647303 with lights and more sold
power-assisted steering which worked for £21,000 and both have headed to
locally on an estate changed hands for Holland - they both worked in France
£1,500 and will need the full works. originally. The 1981 Bedford/ HCB-
The big numbers were the two Lanz Angus ELRRICCO No. 6039-54x2 fire
Bulldogs, a 1943 55hp hot bulb diesel engine RVW 847W showing 18,200
example No. 144796 with downswept miles with fire equipment, hoses, stand ▲ Some £21,000 was paid for the Lanz
exhaust and rear wheel weights sold pipes, ladders and a front-mounted winch Bulldog 45hp which spent its working life in
for £18,000. The smaller 1950 Lanz was yours for £2,600 + VAT. France. Photo: Peter Love

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Preserved Vehicle grades: 1 Rusty heap, 2 Runs needs work, 3 Original, 4 Older Restoration, 5 Restored, 6 Concours.
Working vehicle grades: 8 Rough, 9 Runs needs work, 10 Average conditions, 11 Exceptional, 12 Like new. *Record prices.
MARSHALL RELIC
O
n 19 August H J Pugh at its
Ledbury Showground offered a
large Marshall 12hp slide-valve
duplex portable. It was rather tired to
say the least and needs a firebox and
backhead for starters, not forgetting a
smokebox and tubeplate, but much of the
motion is complete. The hub caps were
all missing and the engine number is not
known.
It went on to sell for £2,700 and has
gone to Anglesey, It has since had the
front tidied up with a new smokebox and
is to be used as an ‘object of desire.’
RAIN LASHES DOWN AT CHEFFINS
C
heffins’ 20-21 October
Vintage Collective at their
Sutton, Cambridge Sales HQ
was a great success even though
rain lashed down both days making
the site rather wet underfoot. This
was the wettest Vintage Collective
since the very last sale Cheffins held
at Linton Hall and that was over 20
years now!
Despite the conditions Cheffins
are investing more into their site
with a new storage building going
up and already in place is a more
permanent sale site central structure
which was used here to sell the
automotive spares, automobilia and
petroliana, fairground memorabilia
and selected vehicles and
motorcycles which started at 9am
under Chairman Bill King.
▲ Cheffins’ new storage building is coming together well at their machinery sale HQ.
Photo: Peter Love
▲ This gives you an idea what you got for ▲ As can be seen the engine was very
your £2,700 + commission. complete in many ways, see the position of
the o/s rear wheel.
JEREMY CURZON
Later Jeremy Curzon took over the gravel,
this was his 73rd sale and he is the
successful organiser of this section, but
Jeremy was conducting the last of these
sales as sadly he has decided to retire
after the late Jim Russell sale here in late
November. He says his highlight was
discovering the former Winston Churchill
Land Rover, in Kent, bringing it to the
sale ground and selling it for £129,000!
This former research engineer has
always had a passion for motor-cycles
and has brought a wonderful selection
for sale at each of these three annual
sales. His highlight was selling the
famous Vincent Rapide ‘Fenland Flyer
B’ for £46,000. Jerry will certainly be
missed and we wish his understudy Tom
Godsmark every success with this sale as
he takes over control.
▲ Thanks for all you have done Jerry, you
have always been so helpful to the current
editor of Old Glory over the years.
Photo: Peter Love
Seen at 7.30am on a wild and woolly
Saturday 21 October is the new semi-
permanent building where Sale 2 was
staged. Photo: Peter Love
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It was all yours for £14,000 - the

well restored Fordson E27N with
Perkins P6. Photo: Peter Love

MONSOON WEATHER AT CHEFFINS

O
ver 20-21 October Cheffins pieces in your home, they raised stationary engines. The 1917 Gardner
held their third and last Vintage between £90 for the 1944 Fordson N VT 6.5hp, an older restoration but
Collective of the year at their Utility depicted with a frustrated owner looking good got to £4,800 but wasn't
Sutton, Cambridgeshire site. There were called ‘Won’t Start’ to the highest of the sold and it was similar with the 1917
some 2,546 lots on offer starting at 9am ten lots offered £180 for the Fordson Gardner IV 1.5hp engine. The class act
on the Friday with the ‘Agricultural and Super Dexta with Lambourn cab called was the 1910 Gardner ZAF No1 1.5hp
Automotive Literature, Prints and Pictures’ ‘Spring Supplement.’ After some 749 horizontal with hot tube ignition in older
sale kicking it off inside one of the main lots and four auctioneers the Friday sales restored condition - it got to £8,000 but
sale buildings. However outside it was were concluded. again wasn't sold. The 1917 Gardner
lashing it down with rain. Our interest started early on Saturday ACR 4hp was got away at £2,000;
On the Saturday it was similar for at 9am with the stationary engines and the piston had been replaced but the
most of the day, but as always the horticultural, bygones and miscellanea engine wasn't running said to be down
team of Bill King, Oliver Godfrey, Tom sale amounting to some 465 lots and the to carburettor problems, but who knows
Godsmark and others just ploughed spares and tyres sale which in total was until the new owner from Scotland gets
through to the conclusion at 4.15pm on another 507 lots, so there was a lot to it home.
Saturday. get through in this section. As for the 281 ‘Vintage and Classic
The highlights on the first day included The items to interest us were the Vehicles’ sale, as it’s called these days,
the 1920 Simplex Marlborough Motors Gardner stationary engines, classed by the 1970 Austin J2 light truck which had
half-track tractor catalogue at £340. collectors as the Rolls-Royce of British been new to Malta, still with left hand
Later on £500 was paid for 100 lots of
Massey Ferguson literature in binders
and files. The 1932 Marshall 15/30
instruction manual and the Marshall
letter written to S Richardson, Sandtoft,
Yorkshire that year got to £650 and was
not sold. The part-built Burrell 4in traction
engine, looking very bare, sold for £350
and the Shackleton Foden FG clockwork
six-wheeler stopped at £450. Next on
was the Ferguson demonstration model
with track and plough in full working
order, but well chipped, that raised a
very good £10,800 and sold to the
Republic of Ireland. ▲ With the heavens open the County CFT ▲ The rare Glover & Sons, Warwick
As for the Border Fine Arts dioramas, Perkins P6 was moved on at £12,000. Engineering pre-Eagle Engineering stationary
which still make wonderful decorative Photo: Peter Love engine sold for £3,000. Photo: Peter Love

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drive and a replacement Nissan 2.2 litre
diesel engine, sold in excellent restored
order for £5,000. It was followed
by a long-wheelbase 1931 Ford AF
pick-up that came from France with its
four-cylinder side-valve engine. In this
configuration the AF is said to be quite
rare, especially today. With a current
V5c it was last used three years ago and
sold here for £5,400, needing some
light recommissioning having looked at
it closely.
A 1935 Austin Light 12 pick-up
LXS560 which looked like an overseas
import changed hands for £5,200 in
the end and again will need some light
recommissioning. The French military
1983 ACMAT (Ateliers de Construction
Mécanique de L'Atlantique, also known
as ALM-ACMAT, a French manufacturer
of cross-country and tactical military
vehicles since 1958) looked very clean
and ran well after taking some starting
and with a V5c sold here for £6,400.
The circa 1954 Commer Q4 5-ton six-
cylinder petrol military vehicle 479ELM
looked very good but dusty and changed
hands at just £3,400.
As for the excellent 1918 Sentinel
Standard waggon No. DS1960,
AW4131 that came next in the Wolf
Brewery livery having been rallied
earlier this year by friends of the
Richards family, offered with no reserve
it was to sell for £106,000 (£113,632
with commission) and must be classed as
a bargain as it’s in such good condition.
The Sentinel was new as a tipper
to Owen & Dyson Ltd of Rotherham
who used it at their casting works
until 1936 when it became part of the
famous Brown Bayley Steels of Sheffield
fleet and was used until 1965. It was
sold for preservation in 1970 to John
Richardson of Yorkshire. I remember
seeing it stored at the National Railway
Museum in the 1980s. Later it headed
to Norfolk and Mervyn Mayes' team
which lead to its restored appearance at
the 1996 Weeting Rally. Mendip Steam
made a new boiler for it in 2016 and it
was rallied until 2019. Sadly John has
passed on and Cheffins sold it here and
the new Devon owner has a very reliable
and well-liked Sentinel waggon.
Ted Saunders' very fine Duncan
Sanders-built 6in Fowler road locomotive
was in steam, whereas the Sentinel
wasn’t, but it didn’t change hands at
£52,000 and is still available. As for the
same vendor’s ex-Forestry Commission
1967 Scammell Highwayman with
Leyland 680 in grade 4 condition, it sold
for £14,500 and the 1949 Southern &
North 36ft showman’s living van got to
£21,000 but more is needed to see it
▲ Some £320 was offered for this good
looking Lister CS engine. Photo: Peter Love
▲ 1918 Sentinel Standard steam waggon
No. DS1960 AW4131 was in excellent
condition. From the the late John Richards it
sold here for £106,000. Photo: Peter Love
sell with the excellent furnishings inside.
Moving on to the tractor highlights it
all started off in dry conditions with the
well-restored 1949 Fordson E27N No.
1123829 with Perkins P6 that sold for
£14,000, while the County CFT No.005
on an E27N skid unit raised £12,000 in
similar condition and was well priced.
A very original 1953 Field Marshall
Series 3A in green (not orange) and
lights that all work changed hands at
£14,000. The 1961 Fordson Super
Major 144XBH with V5c was another
original gem that went for £10,500 and
reflected the price rise these tractors
have seen this year, but you have to
have the right thing in the first place.
A Northampton collector has had a
clear-out and his 1929 Advance-Rumely
Oil Pull W in fully restored and painted
condition changed hands for £9,900;
the very original preservation imported
1937 Allis-Chalmers A No. A2577
looking excellent sold for £10,200. The
original style and clean 1927 Advance-
Rumely M 20-35 which I remember while
in the USA decades ago now sold for
▲ The Leyland 680-engined 1967
Scammell Highway tractor unit, ex-Forestry
Commission, was sold by Ted Saunders for
£14,500. Photo: Peter Love
▲ The rain had stopped for a while as the
Standard Sentinel in rally condition came
up. Photo: Peter Love
▲ Ted Saunders with Cheffins steam
consultant Wilem Middlemiss and the
brilliant Fowler 6in road locomotive that
got to £52,000 and is still available.
Photo: Peter Love
£7,800. The older restored 1927 Hart-
Parr 18-36 No. 87432 was moved on at
£6,200 and was near enough ready to
go rallying.
By now the rain had started again
and would last until the end of the sale
as the big hitters appeared in the shape
of 1985 MB-trac 1300 B436XWY all
restored, £40,000, 1991 MB-trac 1000
J645EAT £41,000 and 1981 MB-trac
1500 MKU791W £56,000 with V5cs,
the latter in sea green livery, and VAT
applied to these three tractors. There is
a massive following for these tractors
particularly in mainland Europe and the
UK now.
Not far on the 1978 Muir-Hill 171
BPC28T with a genuine Perkins V8 540
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▲ 1917 Gardner ACR 4hp carries a new
piston, but work on the carburettor is
needed; it was sold to Scotland for £2,000.
Photo: Peter Love
▲ Doing exceptionally well for what it was
the 1989 Ford 7810 Jubilee was yours at
£45,500. Photo: Peter Love
▲ The 1910 Stanley type 72 20hp No.
5560 SV9753 with current boiler certificate
sold for £60,000. Photo: Peter Love
engine, in grade 2 condition really, sold
for £33,500 with rust and filler showing
through in places. As for the grade
4.5 restored 1956 Fordson KFD68
VBP865, it reflected the price trend in
these tractors and was sold here for
£4,800. Later on the well-restored 1961
Massey Ferguson 35 839PKL in grade
5.5 (top restored tractor in the sale) sold
for £9,000. However they went mad
for the grade 4 1968 Massey Ferguson
135 with MF two-furrow plough behind,
although the front axle centre pin bush
was totally worn out and with fuel stains
in places over the paintwork it sold for a
very good £10,500.
Moving down to the lower half of the
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▲ The grade 4 1910 Gardner ZAF No.11
5hp got to £8,000, but was not taken. The
‘Rolls-Royce’ of British stationary engines is
worth more than that. Photo: Peter Love
▲ Supplied to Malta, the LHD 1969 Austin
J2 with Nissan 2.2 diesel conversion sold
here for £5,000. Photo: Peter Love
▲ 1932 Morris light van with four-cylinder
847cc engine AAE860 with V5c was in
excellent condition, just lacking TLC and
sold for £7,200. Photo: Peter Love
saleground, with the catalogue pictures
of Nos. 2384/5 muddled up, the quality
Nigel Burgess-restored 1941 John Deere
D No. 158704 with 12-volt electrics
sold for £6,400. The money spent on
the restoration would have been at least
double that - it was a winner when it first
came out and is still very good. The next
of the Henry Dixon of Pembrokeshire
tractors was his 1949 John Deere R in
similar excellent condition that made the
same money.
In the back row was an Irish Free
State assembled interim c1931/2
Fordson Standard N, it went on to make
a thumping £12,500, however the
tractor is very much a bitsa. It did start
life being made at The Marina, Cork
factory that’s for sure, but over the years
as things became worn out it had an
engine change and lots of English parts
added and was an early restoration
at that. It carries an E27N fuel tank
with an Irish Free State stitched in the
backhead and other things as well.
But I am sure work could be done after
some searching to get the tractor more
original.
Over in the selected vehicles and
motorcycles sale the 1932 Morris 5cwt
light van No.364525, AAE860 in need
of a light recommission (excellent under
the bonnet and inside) sold for £7,200.
The 1910 Stanley type 72 20hp car
No. 5560 SV9753 with a current boiler
certificate in nearly concours condition
sold to Yorkshire for £60,000 (£64,302
all in).
As for the bikes, the mighty 1956
JMC Norvin (Norton fame - Vincent
V engine) that was converted into a
modern-day café racer by John Mossey
and looked nothing but spectacular (it
was a cancelled order) went on to sell
for £35,000 (£38,360 all in).
Despite the dreadful weather Cheffins
came through very well indeed selling
over 75 percent of the machinery
offered.
BILL KING CHAIRMAN
CHEFFINS SAYS
“The October Vintage Sale at Cheffins is
always one of the most popular events
in the vintage calendar, with hundreds
of collectors and enthusiasts joining us
both in person at the Sutton sale ground
and also online, from across the UK,
Europe and further afield. This year’s
sale offered a comprehensive catalogue,
with plenty to choose from in all sections
and the enthusiasm from buyers on
the day was infectious, with heady
prices achieved particularly for the
newer classic tractors despite the heavy
downpours. The market for vintage
items has held strong throughout 2023,
with multiple record prices achieved
throughout the past 12 months.
“Earlier in the year saw our highest-
grossing August Harrogate sale to
date, and each of the collective vintage
sales at Cheffins achieved over £1
million, as buyers continue to add to
their collections, undeterred by the
fluctuations and instability in other areas
of the economy. We expect 2024 to
continue in a similar vein, as vintage
items continually beat inflation and
offer stronger returns than other more
typical investments. We look forward to
welcoming buyers old and new to Sutton
in the New Year, and already have an
exciting catalogue of items to go under
the hammer in April.”
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STEAM OTHER MACHINERY LISTER 28DH PETTER M TYPE

SL GRAYLING FROLIC 18 BAMFORD TULIP TOP

£550. Petter M Type, 5bhp, 600 rpm, Number 72515

£550.ono. Restored some time ago, with separate
piston water pump. Requires dusting and gentle
1950, £150. 1.5 HP. 700RPM. Please call 07833 re-commissioning but used to run well. Please call
£12,000. Steam launch. 18’ long, 4’ 8”beam, GRP 192022, South East.
£1,200. Stationary engine. Please call 01162 01372 463380, South East.
hull, hardwood decks, 3 drum copper WT boiler, coal 120956
710716, South East. 120840
fired. Engine Bever Compound 2” + 3¼” bore × 2”
121010
stroke. Keel condenser. 4 wheel galvanised trailer. LISTER D RUSTON HORNSBY PT
Boiler cert to August 2024. Folding canopy with PVC £160. 2 x unrestored Lister Ds - dry stored. £80.00
windows. Please call 07845 168443, South East. BAMFORD EG1 each. Please call 07833 192022, South East.
120963 120957

MAMOD STEAM CAR LEEK GAS ENGINE

£180. Edwardian steam car. Fuel tablets, all

accessories, boiler certificate. Unfired, unused, not
boxed. Please call 07835 000818, South East. 1910, £2,500. Purchased as an unfinished project,
now completed. Have moved onto hot air engines.
121027
Complete with box( 30" L×15W"×19H 80lbsapprox).
Please call 07708 589522, Scotland.
1" SCALE MAXITRAK BURRELL 120909
AGRICULTURAL TRACTION
ENGINE MODEL £200. Older restoration. Runs. With starting handle BOLTON AND PAUL ENGINES
and on wheeled trolley. Please call 07801 347480, 1942. 1 1/2 HP. In excellent condition and runs well.
Wales. Mounted on trolley with steering axle. Complete with
120940 working flour mill (which can be stored on trolley).
Please call 07792470771, Wales.
LISTER D 121202

WARWICK EAGLE
£2,250. 6hp. Full working order, older restoration.
Please call 01935475451, South West.
121153

SUBMERSIBLE AND JL MOTORS

£750. Stationary engines x2. One working, one non LTD SWITCHBOARD
runner no magneto. The runner has had a stainless
steel fuel tank fitted and has attended shows. Please
call 07979 592345, South East.
1998, £2,950. Sought after early UK manufactured
121003
coal fired version. Immaculate condition , steamed
once upon completion then cleaned down and
displayed in a cabinet since. Immaculate condition
SINGLE CYLINDER GAS
with original Cheddar Models Boiler certificate and PUMPING ENGINE
original Maxitrak purchase invoice. Best around
with great provenance. Please call 07980 921341,
Yorkshire and the Humber.
121098
£50. Buyer collects. Please call 07789236282,
South East.
4" LITTLE SAMSON 120774

LISTER DKH8

£3,500. 8" x 8" bore and stroke, by Bryan Donkin.

2004, £10,500. Bell Steel boiler with all paperwork.
No current test certificate but has been pressure
tested for own use. Please call 07393 478411,
South East.
120925
Early 20th century, in very good condition, 2m x 1m
approximately. , East of England.
121017
POA. 80 Volt 100 Amp Dynamo and Switchboard.
6HP BROWNWALL Submersible and JL Motors Ltd dynamo with
1958, £190. 1.5HP - 800RPM. With Manus vacuum £3,250. In full working order. Bats and col eng petrol. nicely restored slate switchboard, transport box
pump on trolley. Please call 07833 192022, South Older restoration. Please call 01935475451, South and display stand. Offers invited. Please call 07833
East. West. 192022, South East.
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PERKINS 4203
POA. Diesel engine. Purchased a few
years ago as a spare. It was removed
from a Range Rover so it is complete
with conversion plate, clutch, starter
motor etc. I last ran it 2 years ago but
it still turns over. Also included are some
spares, injectors and pump, oil filters
etc. Please call 07946 368221, West
Midlands.
120959
BRISTOL 10 CRAWLER
1945, £2,000. Good running order.
New radiator. In primer, needs painting.
Tractor only not trailer. Please call
07951436412, East of England.
120692
DAVID BROWN 880
IMPLEMATIC
1962, £4,000. Front loader bucket and
forks. Good condition, starts on the
button. Tyres 90%. Reluctant sale due
to ill health. Please call 07761501058,
North West.
120796
DAVID BROWN VAC 1A
1946, £3,675. Petrol TVO. Drives and
runs. Very original. V5. New front tyres
including cast rims. Please call 07724
989 884, South West.
120927
FERGUSON TE-A 20
1953, £2,500. New 6V Battery, coil
distributor, new front hubs and bearings,
good hydraulics, rec starter complete
respray, tyres 90% photos for all work
done V5 cert, work done. Please call
01308 425160, South West.
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120781
FERGUSON TE-F 20
1955, £2,250. All original and not
touched, starts well with good tyres
all round, buff log book, lovely tractor,
just had new clutch. Please call
07740876235, South East.
121245
FERGUSON FE-35
1957, £3,500. FE35 Diesel, in lovely
and reliable condition. Owned 22 years,
retirement forces sale. Please call 01228
710 672, North West.
120663
FERGUSON TE-F 20
1954, £3,000. Good starter, reliable
tractor, major service, many new parts,
all tin work straight and solid. New
front tyres, current log book. Please
call 07483 284089, Yorkshire and the
Humber.
121020
FERGUSON TE-F 20
1954, £2,750. Diesel. Very original
condition, everything is working as
it should be, new tyres, new rear
mudguards. In very good condition,
won many ploughing matches. Please
call 07751 236230, Yorkshire and the
Humber.
120999
FERGUSON TE-D 20
1954, £1,500. Petrol /TVO, starts and
runs well , working hydraulics , comes
with pick up hitch, good tyres. Several
new parts fitted , garaged for last 5
years. No V5. Partial renovation. Please
call 07790 214675, Yorkshire and the
Humber.
121155
FERGUSON TE-D 20
1953, £2,500. New 6v Battery, coil
distributor, new front hubs and bearings,
good hydraulics, rec starter complete
respray. Tyers 90% photos for all work
done. Please call 01308425160, South
West.
120851
FERGUSON
1948, £4,500. Starts and runs perfectly.
Please call 07836 355393, Scotland.
121008
FORD FERGUSON 9N
1942, £3,500. 9N tractor. Good
condition. Running order, engine, clutch
and hydraulic pump overhauled, spare
dynamo, starter motor, carb, Ferguson
saw bench included. Please call 07766
136136, Scotland.
120917
FORDSON E27N P6
1948, £5,000. Engine fitted with Hy
Low speed back end good running
order. Please call 01379650504, East
of England.
120656
FORDSON STANDARD
1941, £3,350. 1941 Fordson in
good working order, original with
no modifications, Green. Please
contact 07980539985. Please call
07989539985, Wales.
120823
FORDSON MAJOR
1956, £3,000. Restored in 2009,
new tyres all round, injector pump
reconditioned. Has taken part in
ploughing matches and road runs every
year since. Starts and runs well. Barn
stored. Please call 07484275157, East
of England.
120915
FORDSON WATER
WASHER
1935, £4,000. Very rare Fordson “Water
Washer”. Runs and drives nicely.
Complete rebuild 2014. Nice condition.
Just don’t see them anymore. Please call
07729 662644, West Midlands.
120979
MASSEY-HARRIS 33
DIESEL
1953, £3,850. All original. Starts and
runs well - needs restoring. Electric start,
3 point linkage and belt pulley. Please
call 07896096905, South West.
121156
MASSEY-HARRIS
PACEMAKER
1938, £4,250. Original condition - starts
easily on the handle and runs well. Petrol
only model. Belt Pulley and PTO. Please
call 07896096905, South West.
121157
FORD FERGUSON 9N
POA. Lightly restored 2 years ago.
Running order, engine and hydraulics
overhauled. 1942 saw bench included.
Photos and video available. Please call
07766 136136, Scotland.
120960
3-SPEED TRUSTY
TRACTOR AND PLOUGH
1947, £1,400. Plus trailer, plus spares,
plus new seat behind plough. Carb,
clutch assembly, magneto, 3 skims,
4 discs and 2 arms, 1 point new. 2
winches, one electric, cost £75, and
new hand winch plus instructions, wall
maintenance chart. Wheel weights in
really good restored condition, engine
has high compression and strong spark,
cleabour tyres as new. Illness forces sale
as I cannot start it as do not have the
strength. New oil change, carb taken to
bits and cleaned. £1,400.00 for the lot.
Used competition ploughing only. Please
call 01507 478760, Yorkshire and the
Humber.
121200
WINNOWING MACHINE
£250. Early 1900s winnowing machine
by R Hunt and Co. Museum piece,
treated woodworm rustproofed paint,
new tin cover. Left in original war finish
paint, then waxed. All working. Please
call 07733591895, East of England.
120627
SHOW CARAVAN
POA. Show Caravan 16ft x 7ft 7ins c/w
entrance steps; fitted gas oven and
hob; 12 volt water pump and drainage
from sink. All built in with work counter.
Towable c/w brakes and road lighting.
West Brackets fitted for signage. Please
call 07976548962, Scotland.
120849
GARVE MINI THRESHER
1930, POA. Only tongue and Groove
woodwork in need of replacement.
Elevator section has become detached
but all components are there. All
mainframe timbers (in red) in good
condition. Please call 07976 710251,
South East.
120911

DAVID BROWN
CROPMASTER
1951, £3,500. Cropmaster. Good runner.
Running on petrol but P/P. Please call
07444 135076, East of England.
120922
M21 RIGID 1949
1949, £4,250. BSA Motorbike. In running
order, original. Lovingly owned - but
limited use since 2022 due to health
issues so recommend recommissioning.
Please call 07534 566648, East of
England.
120996
SEALY HEAVY DUTY
PILLAR DRILL
£260. In very good condition. Seldom
used. Also heavy duty socket set. Please
call 07876 660849, South West.
121101
FIELD MARSHALL
SERIES I WINCH
1946, £1,200. High gear top (high).
Good tyres. Been through Crawfords
work shop. Please call 07725 919800,
Yorkshire and the Humber.
121104
RANSOMES 4" SCALE
BALER
£3,500. Completed and assembled
from drawings but never been working.
Painted orange. Full set of drawings
included. Please call 01590 683000,
South East.
121160
WATER PUMP
£900. Hatz diesel 3inch diaphragm water
pump, very good condition, will pump
dirty water no pipes. Buyer collects and
pays cash. Please call 07798872221,
South East.
121236
INDESPENSION TIPPING
TRAILER
£3,500. Indespension three stage tipping
trailer. Twin Axle, 3.5 ton, 3 tipper levels.
Battery and powered hydraulic pump
with manual pump as well. Good Order.
Please call 07949067690, South East.
120638
MERCURY TUG
£600. Road registered in 1969. Ford
1.5 pre-cross flow engine. Engine runs
well. Tug looking for a new loving home.
Very solid condition. Please call 07360
095525, South East.
120953
MASSEY FERGUSON
FLAT BED
1990, £1,900. Rebuilt Ferguson Flat Bed
Tipping Trailor, restored bed, wheels,
base, chassis and hydraulics, absolute
mint condition and perfect for any small
carry’s. Please call 01263712174, East
of England.
121191
TRUCKS/LORRIES
AEC MAMMOTH
1957, POA. Paper work original REG,
mechanically restored, recon 11.3 UNIT,
Double drive, new cab ash frame, all
lights included, new to central electricity
authority, sale due to health. Please
call 01526397656, Yorkshire and the
Humber.
120783
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ATKINSON MK1
1969, £4,000. SAO 724 G 150 Gardner
engine, David Brown gearbox, kirkstall
double drive back axles power steering,
brakes need attention and new bottom
water hose. Please call 07747618648,
North West.
120665
BEDFORD TM
1978, £28,000. Bedford TM recovery
vehicle. V8 Detroit diesel, spicer gearbox.
Built by TFL in 1985. 12 ton hydraulic
extending JIB with underfloor Ramsey
H-600 winch. Brand new tyres and rims
on front axle. Rear tyres hardly worn.
Includes all towing equipment. Please
call 07850694042, South East.
120618
BEDFORD TK
1976, £10,000. Excellent condition solid
chassis, cab and drop side back, spent
most of its life in Cyprus, new tyres,
recent refurbishment works completed
over £10K, receipts, paper work and
Bedford manuals available. Perfect small
truck for shows and still practical to
carry loads. Also comes with removable
aluminum canopy frame. Real head
turner. Please call 07900554466, East
of England.
120899
BEDFORD TK
1965, £17,000. Bedford tk 330 whiskers
edition, with 7 spare wheels and tyres.
Chassis wheels shot lasted and painted.
New radiator and loads of paperwork.
All original!. Please call 07598 284333,
West Midlands.
121173
DENNIS PAX
1959, £16,000. Dennis Pax recovery
vehicle, Perkins PG engine, 4 speed
gearbox. Body built in 2009, original
lifting crane. All tyres like new. Tow
boy and all other equipment included.
Trophy winner London to Brighton and
Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 and 2022.
Please call 07850694042, South East.
120619
ERF EC
1995, £7,000. ERF Olypic EC12 6x2 T/
unit mid lift axle good runner also 1994
ERF EC10 sleeper cab 4x2 T/unit tipping
gear cummins 325 engine. Please
call 07759473380, Yorkshire and the
Humber.
120648
ERF EC
1995, £6,500. Sleeper CAB 4 x 2 tipping
gear. Also 2 ERF Ec12 6 x 2 t/unit
sleeper CAB Eacy. Also ford D SER 1981
12 toner with HIAB crane alloy boby
£6000. Please call 07759473380, East
of England.
120700
ERF CI56TSS
1936, £15,000. 1936 E.R.F C15 3 way
tipper. Gardner engine good tyres all
round. Please call 01460234733, South
West.
120857
ERF LV UNIT
1971, £8,000. LV tractor 180 engine.
David brown gear box, good tryes all
round. Please call 01460234733, South
West.
120886
ERF EC
£6,500. EC10 4X2 Sleeper cab Cummins
325. Please call 07759 473380,
Yorkshire and the Humber.
121034
ERF EC
1995, £6,500. Ec10. 4X2 sleeper cab
T/unit Cummins 325 HP engine tipping
gear. Also Bedford Livestock Box lorry
1945 restoration project for £1600.
Please call 07759 473380, Yorkshire and
the Humber.
121220
FORD IVECO CARGO
1986, £4,000. 7-5 tonner beavertail
body 2 new tyres in VGC also Ford
Escort 1-6 diesel van 1986 tested June
2024 £6000. Please call 07759473380,
Yorkshire and the Humber.
120647
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GUY OTTER
1951, £15,000. 6 tonner, Gardner 4LK
(we all know they are good engines),
2-speed rear axle, very good overall
condition. Coffin bed on body to act as
a vintage funeral lorry. Please call 01942
7111866, North West.
121146
IVECO 35
2016, 155000 miles, £5,500. Iveco
Daily 35-11 2016 auto, dropside truck.
Ex Tesco 155,000 miles RWD. Good
working order body only 2yrs old usual
marks for working vehicle. MOT May
24 4 good Michelin tyres. Carries 1,1/2
tonnes. Useful farm truck. Please call
01638 663310, East of England.
120602
LEYLAND ROAD-RUNNER
1990, £1,200. 1990 Leyland Road
runner tipper . Cummins engine. Cab
interior immaculate for age. Please call
07836 598208, South West.
120621
LEYLAND ROAD TRAIN
1990, £25,000. 4X2 sleeper cab, new
cab fitted 4 years ago. Tested August
2024. Please call 07759473380,
Yorkshire and the Humber.
121025
MAN 15-220
1998. Man 22463 Tractor Unit. Available
by online auction from 16th December
via www.ruthinfarmers.co.uk. Please
call 01824705000, Wales.
120679
MERCEDES 1831S/35
POA. Mercedes 815 recovery starts and
drives. Please call 07836259766, South
East.
121259

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MERCEDES 1623S/52LC
1993. New to Richard Lawson
transporters, MOT and tax exempt. New
cab fitted. Good condition, runs well
ready to show. Please call 07780117563,
West Midlands.
120691
MORRIS DROPSIDE
£10,000. My old lorry, this Morris
Commercial is very original and only
had 2 owners before me in 92 years.
Everything is working and it runs well,
2 litre 6 cylinders, on the button and
ready to go. Please call 07736355765,
South East.
120809
ERF A SERIES
1966, 246521 miles. Rare model
built for Carrs of Carlise. On American
Manxton double drive axels. Original
wing mirrors and number plates. New air
box and filter. Chassis no. 14181. Buyer
collects. Please call 07759336539,
Ireland.
120761
COMMER BF
1964, POA. Fitted with coach built
wooden body, dry stored last 40+ years.
Originally owned by local hardware
store as a mobile shop. Wooden roller
shutters. All original and not molested,
engine turns ok. V5 present with original
registration. Would make a fantastic
project, one of a kind!. Please call 07905
139620, South East.
120981
SCANIA 114L 380
£12,000. MOT 31.1.24, c/w Cormach
1900 Crane cheese wedge Hydraulic
ramps. Also 12.5 tons of test weights
including cradle. Please call 07764
156271, Scotland.
120995
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LEYLAND FREIGHTER
1988, 5500 miles, £12,000. Cummins
engine, 2F gearbox, hydraulic crane
in very good condition. Please call
07759473380, Yorkshire and the
Humber.
121024
COMMER TS3
1955, £18,000. T/ Unit in immaculate
condition. 5 wheel model air brake.
Please call 07759 473380, Yorkshire and
the Humber.
121031
ERF KV
1957, £16,000. Gardner 4 cylinder 2
speed axle, all new ash cab frame, new
flat bed body with new sheet in VGC.
Please call 07759 473380, Yorkshire and
the Humber.
121033
BEDFORD 3 TON
1935, £15. Also 5 ton and coach 1935
instruction books and magazine. Plus
postage, £15 each. Selling for charity.
Please call 01516 788565, North West.
121055
RENAULT MAJOR
1994, £6,000. 1994 Renault manager
385 UK reg have v5 in need of full
restoration but can be heard running. 3
axle, rare mid-lift new from the factory.
175 kilometers/108k miles the truck is
complete, the cab is very good, and has
an excellent interior buyer must collect
from southern Ireland, 1 hour Dublin
port. Please call 00353877856652,
Ireland.
120678
VOLVO F
1985, £7,000. SWB Tipper alloy boby
just out of service. Also 1986 Bedford
CF2 dropside pick up 38000 mile from
new. Please call 07759473380, East of
England.
120701
VOLVO FL
1994, 230000 miles, £12,000. Excellent
condition. MOT'd May 2024. Please call
07583044220, Ireland.
120982
VOLVO F
1985, £7,500. F6 SWB Tipper. Alloy body,
just out of service, in good condition.
Please call 07759 473380, Yorkshire and
the Humber.
121032
VOLVO FH12
1993, £30. For Sale 1993 F12 400 4x2
very good condition. Please call 00 353
86 8125587, Ireland.
121060
VOLVO FL
1993, POA.Volvo FL7, 270HP, 1993,
SWB Tractor unit fitted 090 crane,
air suspension, sprung cab. Taken
out of service October 2021, 2 owners.
Owned for 25 years. 447km in 1999.
Private sale, No VAT. POA. Please call
0789104462, South East.
121121
WHISKERS CAB
1965, £7,500. Restored Whiskers cab
with all new parts to make cab complete,
and another 7 wheels and tyres!. Please
call 07598 284333, West Midlands.
121172
MISC
CAR MASCOT
£95. 1920s Car Mascot. Featherlite
types nude lady chrome finish, 12 inch
height, on marble base. Please call
07968659967, West Midlands.
120629
SPARE TYRES CASE CAS BRASS EAGLE
£100. Tyre 1400x20 road tread dunlop,
new never been on rim. Please call
07952 798787, East Midlands.
120649
STUART TURNER R2
£50. Suitable for restoration or spares.
Please call 07851 859619, South East. £100. 7 ins tall. Please call 07717
120864 127970, East of England.
121102
ENGINE LAMPS
POA. Set of sprung Oldfield dependence: JAGUAR SS100
rear fork mounted: rear sprung Oldfield £195. Franklin Mint Model 1.24 scale.
dependence: Brass Eli Griffiths "factory" Complete with all paperwork as
lamp. All good. Please call 01437 originally supplied. Superb condition
741489, Wales.
with case, white in colour. Please call
121030
01204 397033, North West.
121103
TRAILER 4" SCALE
MARSHALL HEADLIGHTS
£800. The trailer is homebuilt with an
oak frame and planks with plywood
floor. The wheels are steel spoked. The
sides drop down and are hinged. The
front and rear sections are removable.
The measurements are: Length 48
inches; Width 34inches; Height 27
inches; Wheels 11.5 inches diameter. No
POA. Fair condition. For more information
suspension. Never been used. Please call
please call. Please call 07946 169001,
01590 683000, South East.
East of England.
121161
120720
TRAILER BARREL ORGAN
£2,500. 20 key less complete with
50 tunes on card, 4 wheel decorated
cart plus monkey with fez. Please call
01409253149, South West.
121249
FIREWOOD BUNDLING
MACHINE
£70. New tyres. 4ft long 3ft wide 18
inches deep, wooden body, metal frame
and cover. Old 7 pin electric plug. Call
after 6pm please. Please call 01270
669259, West Midlands.
121219
42FT STEEL NARROW
BOAT
£28,500. 42ft Steel Narrow Boat "Tug
Style" with Gardner 4LK engine, PRM
160 gearbox, twin prop 7hp bow
thruster. Toilet, shower, hand basin, 3
berths. Please call 07890166810, West
Midlands.
120650
BEDFORD TRUCK
DRAWING
£20. 7 ton Bedford Truck drawing, POA. Ideal for the firewood trade or
1 meter square, 07/10/1955, scale vintage collector. Perfect in every
0.75x1ft, ally body, free postage. Please way. Please call 07881 768546, West
call 02083 997541, South East. Midlands.
120646 109832

SAWBENCH
£75. Sawbench with two tungsten
blades, rough cut and fine cut. Cutting
depth 75mm. Complete with depth and
width gauges. Please call 01726884525,
South West.
120632
PEDESTAL DRILL
£150. Standing drill stand, heavy duty,
four speed with light above drilling
plate, also with double action vice and
mortising attachment and two mortising
drills. Please call 01726884525, South
West.
120633
LATHE BY JEWEL
£50. Lathe, by Jewel, Collet type. 6"
between centres and 1.5" centre over
bed. Please call 07952 798787, East
Midlands.
120637
BDV LAWN ROLLER
1918, £4,000. BDV lawn roller chassis
with model T engine, good running order,
1918. Please call 01379650504, East of
England.
120655
STEEL 4JAW
£50. Steel 4Jaw IND chuck never used
slim body 4" diam cost £138.40 very
heavy, in box £50. Please call 01274
875032, Yorkshire and the Humber.
120704
CLARKE SINGLE PHASE
ELECTRIC MOTOR
£45. Clarke Single Phase Electric Motor
1/2 H.P Bought for Boxford lathe still in
box not needed £45. Please call 01274
875032, Yorkshire and the Humber.
120705
CLARKE CMD300
MILLING/ DRILLING
MACHINE
£275. Excond, £275 model engineer
retiring. Please call 01274 875032,
Yorkshire and the Humber.
120706
PHOTOGRAPHS
POA. Photos of all subjects including
livestock, container, haulage, tippers,
tankers, 6 x4 photos 60p each. Please
call 07812 652847, Yorkshire and the
Humber.
120709
HEAVY DUTY RECOVERY
CHAIN
£25. Length heavy duty vehicle/
tractor recovery chain. £25. Please call
01303893537, South East.
120724
LISTER PARTS FOR
ENGINE
£695. Lister Engine no248483 specA28C
rebuilt 2023 new camshaft and bearings,
new crankshaft and bearings , new
piston, bearings, pump mag. Serviced
run 8 hrs. On wheeled pallet. To include
s.h. Parts for engine 248905 A28C. £695.
Please call 01303893537, South East.
120725
WIND DEFLECTOR
£300. Wind deflector came off a Leyland
cruiser. Good condition. Please call
07754454239, South West.
120731
ANVIL
£300. medium size height 265mm,
length 580mm,width 110mm. Please
call 07721 530520, South West.
120838
SIERVERT GAS
BURNERS
£40. 2 Siervert gas burners and valve.
Please call 01992 412137, East of
England.
120912
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LEATHER BROWN
SHEEPSKIN FLYING
JACKET
£450. Very heavy, large to extra large.
Quick sale for £450, would cost over
£1200 to buy the same. Please call
07448733603, East of England.
120923
BOOKS
£60. Selection of hard and soft back
books, featuring John Deere, Caterpillar,
international and others. Please call
07977 726668, East of England.
120931
MANUALS AND BOOKS
POA. Original books. Perkins workshop
manual for 4108, 4107, and 499
engines. David Brown trackmaster diesel
30 service, maintenance and repair
manual. FOWLER FD3 diesel crawler
Operators Instruction Book. FOWLER FD3
diesel crawler Spare Parts List [Book].
Please call 01482814139, Yorkshire and
the Humber.
120935
KINDLING
£8. 14kg bags of kindling, £8 per bag.
Please call 07930 812220, North East.
120951
DUSTBIN FILM
COLLECTION
POA. Dustbin Film Collection 1930-
1980. Over 300 specialist films thought
to have been lost already available on
DVD through eBay. Tractors by make,
Agriculture, Trucks, Buses, Railways,
Aircraft, Shipping. Email dustbin@
weylode.com. Please call 01454
313305, South West.
120967
FARMING FILM
POA. Large collection of Farming Film.
For over 40 years Dustbin Film Collection
has been rescuing and showing old
16mm films. Many feature tractors
between 1930 and 1980. Some are now
available to order as DVDs. E-mail for
details DFC@weylode.com. Please call
01454 313305, South West.
120992
VINTAGE WEIGHING
SCALES
£200. Cast Iron, with selection of
weights, 2 x 56lb Siddons weights, 4oz,
8oz, 1lb, 2 x 2lb round weights, and 2
x 2lb rectangular weights. Please call
07963 370815, East of England.
121007
LEATHER SHEEPSKIN
FLYING JACKET
£110. Old leather sheepskin flying
jacket. Size large, may fit XL. Been hung
up in damp garage, needs good clean
and has some bold patches. £100 plus
£10 post. Please call 07863 262603,
Greater London.
121011
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
BADGE
1953, £45. Queen Elizabeth II crowned
2nd June 1953. Excellent condition. Post
free. Please call 07968659967, West
Midlands.
121023
WILMAT HAND TRUCK
£350. 1 ton hand truck. Turntable steer.
6' x 3' platform. 400 x 8 tyres. In as new
condition. Please call 07544 739778,
Yorkshire and the Humber.
121026
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MODEL CAR
£25. Model car. Well-made with heavy
tin plate, gauge construction and non-
rotating wheels. Size: 16" x 7" x 7"(Ht).
Please call 07871398470, East of
England.
121028
OPERATOR AND PARTS
MANUALS
£25. A large amount of old agriculture
machinery manuals, including balers,
sprayers, mowers etc. From Vicon,
Welgar, Amazone and more. All used
but in good condition. Please call 01259
720778, Scotland.
121035
HARLEY DAVIDSON
SIDECAR BODY
1928, £3,500. Upwards with seats, arm
rests, spare wheel carrier and sidecar
cover, no chassis with opening door
on left. £3500 firm or exchange best
motorbike with sidecar. Please call
07863 262603, Greater London.
121130
HARLEY DAVIDSON
SIDECAR BODY
1936, £3,500. Upwards with seats, arm
rests, spare wheel carrier cover, leaf
springs, no chassis suit. £3500 firm
may exchange motor bike with sidecar.
Please call 07863 262603, Greater
London.
121131
TRACK GAUGE
£15. 3.5 inch, 5 inch, 7.25 inch, not used,
for 8mm rails only. Please call 01270
669259, West Midlands.
121214
For Sale Mercedes Benz Tractors many models all year round
MB Trac 700 800 900 1000 1100 1300 1400 1500 1600
Different tractors available from our own stock
Year from 1984 to 1991
Only serious buyers contact us for more
information, photo’s and technical details!
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FOWLER SELLS FOR £37,000

▲ The Arthur Lyon Co, Victoria ▲ The Scottish Shanks engine ▲ The 1922 Aveling & Porter E ▲ 1926 Aveling & Porter AA
Street, London 1920 4hp sold for £6,000 at H J Pugh’s. type 10 ton roller with a poor type tractor conversion sold
engine sold for £720. firebox was yours for £18,600. here for £21,500.

O
n Saturday 28 October,
in showery conditions, H
J Pugh of Ledbury held
their latest Vintage Collective
Sale at their excellent site
HQ. It was made up of 934
lots, staged in two rings and
featured a selection of stationary
engines, tractors, three steam
engines, implements and tools
going under the hammer.
It saw much stock from
the Murdoch McKenzie Ltd
collection from Scotland, with
the Alexander Shanks, Dens Iron
Works, Arbroath, Scotland 5hp
hot bulb engine No. 1106/20
selling for £6,000. Although
free, the engine needed the
full works. Still in situ south
of Glasgow was the mighty
National gas engine No.
CTC2860, which sold here for
£2,600. The new owner will
need to remove the engine from
the building, a considerable
task.
All from the same stable,
the 1948 County CFT E27N
No.2056 petrol/paraffin
crawler in very straight light
rust condition with good tracks,
carrying a rare top linkage
clutch it sold for a good
£6,000, considering it needs
much work. The very worn out
and rough, County 634 no.514
from the same stable sold for
a very good £10,600, it had
a £7,000 pre sale estimate.
The next lot was the big one of
the sale tractor wise, when the
1974 Massey Ferguson 185
four-wheel drive with 6,327
hours, HNT803N, in very
off farm condition and with
Flexi cab, made a remarkable
£18,200, grade 2/3.
We then came to the
steamers, with the boiler
inspector viewing the fireboxes
in the two Scottish engines. The
1929 Fowler T3B no. 17471 8
ton single-cylinder roller features
an excellent firebox in ‘like new’
condition, although some of the
gears perhaps need work it sold
for a very fair £37,000, plus
commission.
As for the 1922 Aveling &
Porter E type No. 10356 single-
cylinder piston roller 10 ton
roller, in which the firebox needs
replacing by the readings, it
sold for £18,600.
From Somerset came the
1926 Aveling & Porter AA
type No. 11451 tractor which
started out as a 6 ton road
roller for Thompson & Son,
Chester le Street, County
Durham, later Eddison Steam
Roller Co fleet No.611. It was
converted in the late 80s and
called Kathryn at the time and
now featuring three-speeds. The
firebox condition could not be
ascertained, but the boiler had
been heavily welded in various
areas and it went on to sell for
£21,500.

▲ Still in very dusty conditions

▲ Fairbanks Morse Z 3.5hp
was yours for £470 in such
original condition
based at Motherwell, Scotland
for decades and last used in
1995 is the 1929 Fowler T3B
that sold for £37,000 with a
very good firebox.
▲ Estimated to sell for £7,000
the County International 634
which was missing parts and
worn out sold for an amazing
£10,600.
▲ The hard to find Massey
Ferguson 185 four-wheel
drive found new ownership at
£18,200.

DEREK MARDER
I
t’s with great sadness we have to report the passing of one of the steam movement’s great characters in Derek Marder of
Andover, a plant contractor in his working life. He has always been an extensive road steam owner and his famous yard
was home to so many enthusiasts engines over the years.
He saved many an engine that could have been scrapped and was a pioneer portable collector. At one staged he kept the
Andover Model Engineering Club going when it was on the floor.
Derek out lived his wife Sandra who supported her husband so well. They did much with the Road Locomotive Society trade
stand at the GDSF and other places for many years. His annual autumn steam ups were always grand occasions to attend, as
were his Spring RLS events. It is suggested that his collection could be kept together in a trust, but only time will tell on that one,
you will certainly be missed Derek.

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