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2010 Great Dorset Steam Fair Preview

Welcome to the show!

IT’S HARD to believe that this year’s GDSF is nearly upon us, the last few weeks and months seem to have flown by! We once again have an excellent exhibit entry in all sections of the show but there is no doubt that our special and rare display of McLaren steam engines will take pride of place this year.

I would like to take this opportunity of thanking John Wakehamfor all his hard work and effort in organising the McLaren exhibition; he has been superb and I really do think that the display will be as good as any of the other ‘specials’ that we have held over the years.

With the sad passing of my father, Michael, last November, this year’s show is going to be a very difficult one for all his friends and especially his family. It just won’t be the same without him parked up in his old grey Jeep in front of the showman’s engine line-up, but I know he would be very proud that his great show is carrying on and going from strength to strength. Dad has left an enormous legacy and in the words of the Rev Dr Michael Foster: “If you are looking for a memorial for Michael, it is erected each year, the Great Dorset Steam Fair, a living memorial.”
A memorial and thanksgiving service for dad will be taking place on the Friday of this year’s show, 3 September, at 2pm on the stage of Dean’s Dance & Bioscope Show. To all Old Glory readers who are attending this year’s GDSF, I hope you enjoy your visit!

Kind regards
Martin Oliver, Managing Director.
Great Dorset Steam Fair

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Steam and savings at the Old Glory marquee!

WE LOOK forward to meeting readers once again at the Old Glory marquee, situated next to the big National Traction Engine Trustmarquee in the steamengine section and next to the specialMcLaren display of engines. We will again have a range of money-saving show offers ranging from magazines, subscriptions, bookazines, clothing, DVDs and our brand new calendar for 2011.

We will be the only stand on site offering the brand new DVD Behind the Moon&The Sledgehammer – a must for film fans and lovers of the offbeat original fly-on-the-wall story of an engine-owning family (see reviews, this issue). The original film itself will of course also be available.
Just outside the OG marquee will be two special Wm Allchin engines that are both celebrating their birthdays with us – one at 120 years old and one at 100 years old! Stephen Hubbuck’s Allchin 7nhp General Purpose Engine No 669 of 1890 Bess was built for Charles Kewell of Portslade, West Sussex, and from 1921 was owned by Henry Hobden of Isfield, East Sussex.
Owned for three years by Allan Pronger of Wivelsfield and in 1957 by Roland Page (of The Moon&The Sledgehammer film), Chiddingly, East Sussex. Bought by Charles Russell in 1963, being his first engine. Put up for auction after his death in April 1999. Stephen has had extensive boiler work and a full overhaul carried out and has repainted in Allchin’s 1925 colours and lining. The engine featured on the cover of OG245.

Celebrating its centenary is Richard Poole’s Allchin 7nhp General Purpose Engine No 1499 of 1910 Evedon Lad. Supplied new to Arthur Welborne, a threshing contractor at Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. In 1926 H Birkett of Lincoln sold the engine to F Newton. In 1944 H Thurlby of Evedon bought it. During the 1960s the engine was restored by Mr Taylor who rallied it until 1983 when it was sold at auction. In 1993 it was purchased by present owners who have spent many hours restoring it to its present condition including its correct livery and works transfer. Inside the marquee, from Anglesey we welcome John Phillips’ Mann Patent Steam Cart & Wagon Co steam tractor No 1325 of 1918 Myfanwy.
The 5-ton 4nhp slide valve compound 4-shaft engine was new to Llanfair Agricultural Society in 1918 and worked the farms bordering the Menai Straights at Anglesey, threshing corn. It later moved across the Island to Carmel and was used by a contractor there until around 1948. Purchased for preservation by the late Captain Hewitt of Cemlin, Anglesey, he stored it in a shed at the bottom of his yard until everything was disposed of after his death. John has owned this engine since 1975 and after a near 10-year gap off the road, it has just been totally rebuilt for the second time, which includes chimney, smokebox, barrel, tubes, throatplate, backhead and hornplates.

At the time of writing, it is also possible that the boiler of the Wallis & Steevens tractor that was exhibited in ‘hedgerow’ condition last year in the Old Glory marquee will return in order to see ‘work in progress’ being undertaken by Ross Anderson and friends at Cobham. Alongside our own sales stands we welcome for the first few days of the show Willem Middlemiss of auctioneers Cheffins, who will be on hand to advise the best ways of going about the auction route should you wish to dispose of your steam engine or vintage item.

Willemcan also conduct private treaty sales for those who would favour anonymity. For those who are restoring, rather than selling, then representatives from heritage paint suppliers TR Williamson will be on hand in the marquee. This is their first visit to Dorset but as they were founded in 1775, supplied varnish to Stephenson’s Locomotion No 1 and the paint specifications to Fowler’s Steam Plough Works, it can be safely assumed that they know what they are doing by now! Better than that, they will be bringing their spectrometer,which will enable a representative to go and see your engine or exhibit and take a reading in order to produce a paint livery as near as original as possible for you. Painting demonstrations with TR Williamson’s paints will be given in the marquee by Ted Hannon.

Ted was born in the late 1940s at the height of the age of steam and at the dawning of the commercial vehicle and the thrust of the combustion engine. Ted is not just a good brush man, he understands the guts and the soul of the vehicles he paints. Many of his works are from strip-down to rebuild and repaint, the full monty.

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WIN BIG WITH OLD GLORY
AT THE 2010 GREAT DORSET STEAM FAIR

As a big thank you to all our loyal readers and to help celebrate Old Glory’s involvement with this year’s Great Dorset Steam Fair, we’ve teamed up with some of the UK’s leading suppliers to offer you the chance of winning some amazing prizes in our biggest ever giveaway! We’ve got three different prize draws for you to enter worth up to a whopping £7000 in total, so for your chance to win, come and visit the Old Glory marquee at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, or alternatively click on the link below to enter on-line.

• Click HERE to enter the competition.

Giveaway One

WIN pretty much every tool you’ll ever need with the Mega-Master 1001 piece tool kit - WORTH A MASSIVE OVER £5860!

Giveaway Two

 WIN a fantastic collection of Corgi models worth over £500!

This exclusive bumper hamper has been supplied directly from Corgi and includes a selection of  8 models, ranging from showman’s engines to buses, planes and transporters.

Corgi Fact File

Corgi is one of the best known toy and collectables brands. Corgi Toys was launched in 1956 as a new range of die cast toy model cars by Mettoy Playcraft LTD. Corgi reformed as Corgi Toys Ltd. in 1984 and started distributing in Europe, Australia and the USA. In 1995, Corgi regained its independence as a new company and was renamed as Corgi Classics Limited. In May 2008 the international models and collectables group Hornby agreed to buy the brand, tooling and intellectual property rights from Corgi International Limited.

Although Corgi is well known for the production of die-cast collectables such as planes, cars, buses and trucks, the company has also won awards for toys for younger children. Corgi also holds several licenses including Bond and is proud to be the first and only die-cast collection to be inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

It might also be worth checking the attic for old Corgi models. A 1965 Monte Carlo Rally Mini Cooper S could be worth £300 to £400, The Man from U.N.C.L.E 'Thrushbuster' Oldsmobile from 1966 might fetch £250 to £300 or if you have the right Noddy car, produced in 1969, it could go for an amazing £700 at auction!

• Visit Corgi on-line at: www.corgi.co.uk

Giveaway Three

WIN a top spec Kärcher high pressure washer and multipurpose vac worth over £500.

• Click HERE to enter the competition.