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Celtic Steaming with the Glynns
Irish hospitality knew no bounds when the Glynn family and their steam enthusiast friends in Co Carlow went to extraordinary lengths to ‘enjoy the craic’ with Old Glory, as Keith Langston reports. |
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1959 Rallying in hop country
John Crawley commentated at the Weald of Kent Traction Engine Club’s rally at Paddock Wood, deep in the heart of hop-growing country, in 1959. He relates the story of the engines that were to be found on parade there. |
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West Country Gladiators
In the summer of 2005, former Gladiator Club’s
Burrell showman’s road locomotive The Gladiator and the Anderton & Rowland
Grand Organ, of which the club were once custodians, were invited
to Perranporth where the two hadn’t been seen together for
25 years, writes Roger Hamlin. |
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Steering
a Waterous course
When Dave Carder saw an interesting photograph of a restored Canadian-built
Waterous portable engine in Australia in a 2002 edition of Old Glory,
he thought a 6in scale model of it would be rather fine so, without
any plans or drawings, he built it! Roger Hamlin tells us more. |
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Getting
that hands-on experience
Rally organiser John Crawley transports us back to the 1960s when
he ran a string of several steam rallies at Beaulieu, Hampshire – the
home of Lord Montagu and his famous motor museum. |
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Rolling twice: Robey tandem roller restored
John Hobbs discovers more about John Williams’ Robey tandem roller No 42129 of 1924, which has just been restored… and its Danish-built counterpart. |
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Sturdy as she goes: A Thornycroft restored
Alan Barnes spends a day with Sean Wiles, Industrial History Conservator for Hampshire County Council Museum Services, to look at their latest Thornycroft restoration, a vehicle that posed something of a conservator’s dilemma. |
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Getting that hands-on experience
Over the weekend 13-14 August Steam Plough Club’s Hands-on event took place at Goblands Farm in Kent, James Hamilton went along to see the ‘apprentices’ at work. |
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Foden from the final shift
Alan Barnes turns his camera on John Forshaw’s six-ton Foden steam wagon, No 13764 of 1930, which could have been the last Foden steamer to have worked commercially. |
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Queen Victoria …and the new man in her life
John Hobbs visits Mike Hynd, who currently owns the very interesting Aveling & Porter traction engine No 4255 of 1899 Queen Victoria – a convertible that was probably never converted – whilst attending an emotional reunion for the engine in July. Moreover, she’s about to get a new man in her life… |
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Steam on the Stour
Alan Barnes went to furthest East Kent to meet Brian Waters, a man whose passion for paddlers saw him design and build a working example, where he now gives pleasure rides along the River Stour. |
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40 and still fit
Rally organiser Flo Grainger tells something of past Masham rallies and the people who ran them – events that put the attractive North Yorkshire township and its breweries fairly and squarely on the traction engine map. |
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Saved from rotting in Hull
When the 1927-built Spurn lightship had finished its decades of faithful service in the Humber Estuary it was saved from scrap in 1983 by Hull City Council – becoming its first exhibit of floating maritime history – writes John Hobbs. |
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Choughed with success!
Andrew Williams took his Garrett tractor to Cornwall’s Boconnoc Steam Fair in July, the first time that the engine had been to a rally in 11 years, following an extensive overhaul, writes Roger Hamlin. |
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From Fowlers to big Macs
John Hobbs discovered more about the Fowler steam ploughing engines that were converted to internal combustion machines by McLaren – in the company of Henry Roskilly, the son of the joint patent holder. |
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Held in high Regard
Chris and Marie Bedford tell John Hobbs the stormy tale
of how their Brixham-built Mule Class sailing trawler Regard was restored to thoroughbred status. |
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Old Glory in miniature - Model wagons roll
Edward George reports on the increasing popularity of the steam wagon among model engineers. |
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Meet the Metcalfes Injecting steam for 150 years: Part One
The Metcalfe family have made boiler feed injectors and a multitude of precision-engineered parts to keep steam alive for a century-and-a-half and, according to Richard H Metcalfe, they intend to continue for as long as there is a market for the skills they have acquired. Keith Langston reports from the rolling hills of north Cheshire. |
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Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke Part 3
John Crawley continues to delve into his engine archives to bring us some stunning photographs of long-lost Wallis wagons, of which there is just a single survivor. |
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Royal Yacht Britannia - A new Leith of life
Powered by a pair of Pamatrada steam turbines, the Royal Yacht Britannia sailed more than a million miles across the world throughout her magnificent 43-year history. Andy Moore tells the story of Britain’s last royal yacht, now a floating museum at Edinburgh’s Leith docks. |
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| No.184 June 2005 |
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Pride of the West (Kent)
Richard and Marion Francis always wanted a Burrell three-speed engine and their dream came true when No 3739 of 1916 Pride of the West came on the market. James Hamilton was there for its first outing in new ownership, where it is now located firmly in the east! |
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Dorset or Bust! Part 2
Peter Jacobs recounts more of the trials and tribulations of rebuilding an Aveling-Barford steam roller with his wife Emma and friends, and how they made their trip to the Great Dorset Steam Fair with it for last year’s big event. |
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Kempton Park - where horsepower reigns supreme!
Living in the shadow of its more famous equestrian neighbour, Kempton Park Racecourse, the pumping station that bears the name is more than a match when it comes to talking horsepower. Alan Barnes charts the fall and rise of this magnificent testament to our heritage. |
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| No.183 May 2005 |
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• Engines of the Wedgwood dynasty: Part 1
The Wedgwood family name is synonymous with pottery and has its traceable origins lodged in the 13th century and, of course, Stoke-on-Trent. Josiah, perhaps the most famous bearer of the name, was famed for his skilful manipulation of china clay.
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• Under blue skies at Naracoorte
THE 10th National Historical Machinery Association rally was held in perfect weather on 11-13 March at Naracoorte, Victoria, Australia, reports Roger Hamlin.
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• The earliest days of the steam roller
Our Technical Editor, Derek Rayner, investigates some early steam rollers from the mid-19th century.
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• Crossley engines pumped into preservation
The two Crossley engines at Dog-in-a-Doublet near Peterborough on their last day in situ, 8 February.
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• Oliver’s travels
A traction engine, a windmill in deepest Suffolk and a full-time job derived from his hobby – it sounds like the perfect life for newly-accredited boiler inspector Jonathan Wheeler as he relates the history of his engine to Alan Barnes. |
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• End of the line for unique prison tramway
ONE OF Britain’s most unusual narrow gauge lines was sold off by tender in early March, reports Tony Hoyland.
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| No. 181 March 2005 |
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One man and his engines
For 45 years after he first commercially drove Marshall roller No 88096 of 1937 Hilda, the engine again awaits the tender touch of Cyril Thomas. John Hobbs reports |
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VIC 96 - the future is brighter
Members of the recently-formed VIC 96 Trust have been working steadily on the vessel’s restoration at Maryport, Cumbria. Alan Barnes meets the happy band of restorers. |
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Anderton boat lift: ‘Cathedral of the Canals’
Keith Langston looks back at what must surely become one of the last decade’s most successful industrial restoration projects. |
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| No. 180 February 2005 |
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Burrels of Thetford Part 6: Steam wagons
John Crawley continues his much-acclaimed series that looks at early Burrell products, drawing on his personal archive. [Read on..] |
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Preserving the pulling power of Pacific
In the unlikely surroundings of an airfield near Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, the restoration of Pacific one of the last surviving canal tugs which, in its working days, operated as Stewart & Lloyds Ltd No 4 on the Birmingham network is making steady progress. Alan Barnes meets the tug's owner, John Pattle. [Read on..] |
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Mozambique Ransomes restored
Built to the order of a sugar estate in Mozambique, John Forshaw's Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies traction engine No 36020 of 1924 made the NTET 50 celebrations with the paint still wet. Alan Barnes later caught up with Johnat the Old Warden rally. [Read on..] |
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| No. 179 January 2005 |
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Antigua steam and sugar survivors
Colin Tyson goes on the trail of some fascinating vintage machinery that survives from the once-great sugar manufacturing Caribbean island of Antigua. [Read on..] |
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Burrells of Thetford Part 5: Steam Rollers
John Crawley continues to look at early Burrell products, drawing on his personal archive. [Read on..] |
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Franklin's passage home
Andrew Simmonds relates how his family repatriated a Sentinel steam waggon from Canada this autumn, and why it is of historic local significance to them. [Read on..] |
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| No. 178 December 2004 |
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Fit for a King
Alan Barnes follows the restoration of the unique Tasker steam wagon, once abandoned to the elements in Somerset. [Read on..] |
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Saturn enters its final phase
Exciting new beginnings are in sight for Saturn, an historically important ‘Shroppie cheese-fly’, writes Julie Richards-Williams.[Read on..]
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Burrells of Thetford Part 4: Steam Tractors
John Crawley continues his much-acclaimed series that looks at early Burrell products, drawing on his personal archive. [Read on..] |
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| No. 177 November 2004 |
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Engines converted (and reverted)
When the Great War Society travelled to Belgium in August to commemorate one of the conflict’s most significant events, they took the Milestones Museum’s 1916-built Thornycroft Military J Type with them.
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‘PRESERVING OUR HERITAGE WITH STEAM ON THE ROAD’
NTET 50th Anniversary Road Run
There can’t be many better ways to spend your 50th birthday than surrounded by 100 plus steam engines.
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Cheddleton Flint Mill – the spark that caused a china revolution
There has been a mill at Cheddleton, Staffordshire since the 13th century, but the peak of its fame came much later in the 1800s, in its service to the porcelain industry, writes Phil Barnes.
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| No. 176 October 2004 |
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Engines converted (and reverted)
Malcolm Ranieri followed the Steam Car Club of Great Britain’s annual summer tour, which was this year centred on the Heart of Wales, amid some mixed weather.
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An Aveling’s Canterbury tales
Only named Canterbury after its nameplate was sawn in half, Aveling & Porter road roller No. 14039 of 1930 is under restoration at Chatham Dockyard.
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Oiling the wheels of preservation
Malcolm Ranieri visited the Shrewsbury headquarters of Morris Lubricants to see how the company lives up to its advertising slogan “Keeping Steam and Vintage Vehicles Alive” and to find out more about their diverse history.
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| No. 175 September 2004 |
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Steam cars head for the hills
Malcolm Ranieri followed the Steam Car Club of Great Britain’s annual summer tour, which was this year centred on the Heart of Wales, amid some mixed weather.
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Steam gem on a gold chain
Dennis Read tells the story of the unique Hornsby steam chain track tractor, built in 1909 to the order of an enterprising Yukon gold engineer... [Read on..]
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A Brede apart
July marked the 100th anniversary of the Brede Waterworks and its Tangye engines, which was constructed to raise the water supply for Hastings in East Sussex... [Read on..] |
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| No. 174 August 2004 |
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Thornycroft tanker
is an ‘A1’ restoration
The debut appearance two months ago of a
Thornycroft A1 Petrol Tanker, owned and restored by Hampshire County Council Museum Services, marked
the culmination of a project which began in 1995.. [Read
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Tha’s bin a long time comin’
By anyone’s standards, 27 years is a long time to
complete the restoration of a steam engine [Read
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Innishannon Showcase
If it’s the Irish bank holiday weekend, then it’s time for the
Innishannon Steam & Vintage Rally. [Read
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| No.
173 July 2004 |
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Gladstone:
Glad to have you back!
One
of the highlights of the recent Medway Festival of Steam and Transport
was the debut of Burrell Gold Medal Tractor No. 3540 of 1914 Gladstone.
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From
thoroughbred to iron horse
Peter
Gabriel only intended to visit the USA to buy some spare parts for
Harley Davidson motor cycles. [Read
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Inclined
to restore a waterway wonder
Following
the restoration of the Anderton Boat Lift and the completion of
the new Falkirk Wheel, there are now plans afoot to restore another
‘boat-lifting wonder’ of the waterway age.. [Read
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| No.
172 June 2004 |
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At home with Fred Dibnah
History
gave us some great British engineers who
fascinated the developing world with their
ingenuity. Modern generations have been
able to re-visit those engineering workshops
of the past through the magic of television
... [Read
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Doing the Donkey Work
David Vaughan plays ‘Treasure Island’ and goes deep into the forest to find the lost steam donkeys of British Columbia. [Read
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TSS Earnslaw Lady of the Lake
Alan Barnes fills in the detail on a remarkable steamboat in New Zealand that his friend and Sentinel waggon owner Malcolm Rogers travelled on whilst ‘down under’ at a family wedding. [Read
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| No.
171 May 2004 |
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The
Steam Dinosaur’s Mountain Rescue!
The
chances of finding one engine, buried far
underground, must be remote, but to find
another one, on top of a Welsh hillside,
with parts needed to restore the first,
almost defies belief. [Read
on..]
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A
Calmer ‘Relief
Alan Barnes follows
the remarkable progress made by the Lichfield
& Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust
in putting back an important ‘missing
link’ in Britain’s canal network.
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Coronation
tram – back on the Blackpool throne
Channel 4 TV’s
Salvage Squad programme has restored and
returned some unlikely machines back to
their former glory in the last three years.
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| No.
170 April 2004 |
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Follow
the Good Shepherd
...so went one of
the former advertising slogans for Britain’s
oldest brewer, Shepherd Neame. [Read
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Digging
in the Dean forest
Malcolm Ranieri scratches
at the surface of an Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty to discover the remains of
its mining heritage. [Read
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An
Aveling from changing times
...Kevin Bragg’s Aveling-Barford
steam roller is a product built from when
there was much uncertainty in the industry.
John Hobbs discovers more about this interesting
machine. [Read
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| No.
169 March 2004 |
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Today
Penydarren – tomorrow the world!
After building his
road steam carriage in 1801, Trevithick’s
rail locomotive made its run along the Penydarren
Tramroad on February 13, 1804 - an invention
which was to reshape the face of the globe.
[Read
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Tin
Mining on the Cornish Coast
Continuing
our celebratory theme about Trevithick and
the steam power he developed to make deep
mining in Cornwall possible, Alan Barnes
visits the great Levant mine... [Read
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The
World’s Oldest Steam Rally!
Peter Love attended
last year’s National Threshers Association
rally in Ohio. Their 59th event, it is widely
acclaimed as being the oldest steam rally
in the world. [Read
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| No.
168 February 2004 |
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Portables
Proliferate in Preston
Engineman
Steve Dean went ‘window shopping’
in Kent on December 28 to one of the Preston
Services’ Christmas open days.
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Renaissance
at Bugsworth Basin
Alan Barnes discovers
a once-important inland port that has slowly
come back to life after thirty years of
voluntary effort.
[Read
on..]
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Disappearing
Fairground Rides
Fairground historian
Ron Lee recalls the Autodromes, Chasers,
Dive-Bombers and the Octopus rides –
all of which have virtually disappeared...
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| No.
167 January 2004 |
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Behind
the Scenes at Salvage Squad: 3
Ed
Booth, Series Producer of Channel 4 TV’s
Salvage Squad explains how a pet restoration
project becomes primetime television and
why the next series will be different from
the last two. [Read
on..]
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Rebuilding
the Burrell of my Dreams
It
was during the summer of 1997 that Rob Walker
became keen to move forward his childhood
ambition of owning a steam engine. [Read
on..]
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Seeing
red – collecting B.M.B. tractors
John Hobbs meets Jack
Piper – a West Country man with a
penchant for acquiring and collecting all
sizes of B.M.B. tractors. [Read
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| No.
166 December 2003 |
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Morocco’n’
rollers!
David
Moser tells the story of a couple of abandoned
Greens of Leeds steam rollers which he recently
discovered in Morocco. [Read
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North
Devon Delivery
John
Hobbs went to Combe Martin on the North
Devon coast to see the restoration of a
Morris Commercial LC3 delivery lorry that
has a quite remarkable history.
[Read on..]
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Rallies
at Railways
Jeremy
Woolfe tells more about little-known steam
engine manufacturers in Brussels whose surviving
products are only just starting to be appreciated...
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| No.
165 November 2003 |
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Walking with Dinosaurs
David Bowers visits the gigantic Bucyrus-Erie
walking dragline and its even larger sister
at the former open cast mining site at Swillington,
Leeds. [Read
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Threshing to the (two)
Dozen!
Hugh Oram reports from a record-breaking
Rosdillig Rally in Ireland on September
21, when 24 vintage threshing mills were
running simultaneously. [Read
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Bollinckx – the
Belgian steam titan
Jeremy Woolfe learns that the Belgian capital
city has just started to appreciate and
display its industrial heritage. [Read
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| No.
164 October 2003 |
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Rare
Clayton Straw Burner repatriated ...complete
with tree growing through it!
England, Argentina,
Uruguay, Holland - the names read like a
semi-final draw for the soccer World Cup.
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Living
History
Brian Howes found
a colourful collection of splendid showman’s
living wagons of all ages attending the
annual Blists Hill Living Van Rally. [Read
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Gone
West – The East Suffolk Road Run
Photographer
James Hamilton discovers the delights of
the Suffolk countryside in the company of
a friendly bunch of enginemen on an informal
road run. [Read
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| No.
163 September 2003 |
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A Legend in Kilkenny
– Rare Ransomes restored
Colin Tyson went to see a very special
Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies traction
engine that has just been restored in Ireland.
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Everything’s
just Bonser!
John Hobbs reports on Pat Hayes’ superb
restoration of a Bonser motor truck. [Read
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Galloping to the Rescue
On September 2001 Simon Harris and
Kevin Scrivens brought home a set of Gallopers
built by Walkers of Tewkesbury in 1911...
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162 August 2003 |
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Mixing muscle and mechanical
power
Malcolm Ranieri attends an event where horse,
iron horse and mechanical horse all pull
together to transport goods in the time-honoured
way. [Read on..] |
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Making the earth move
David Bowers attended the rally for the
‘big boys toys’ – where
members of the Vintage Excavator Trust get
to play in a real quarry. [Read
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Time Traveller
Derek Rayner reflects on a record-breaking
steam engine run which took place in 1964
– and which has yet to be bettered.
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| No.
161 July 2003 |
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Smitten with Tritton
A photo-shoot by Alan Barnes of the unique
Foster steam wagon in its current guise
- prior to being restored to its 'as built'
condition. [Read
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Living with Death
Neil Calladine describes life on the road
with the last fully-travelling Wall of Death.
[Read on..]
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|Newcomen's second
coming
Project Manager Roger Waldron explains how
the historically-important replica Newcomen
engine at the Black Country Museum was recommissioned
at Easter.
[Read on..]
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| No.
160 June 2003 |
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All the
President’s men
March 29 2003 marked another significant
day in the history of the ex-Fellows, Morton
& Clayton steam powered narrow boat President.
On a grey misty morning and with no fuss
or fanfare the newly-restored boat was poled
gently away from her moorings at Dadfords
Yard in Stourbridge. Alan Barnes
reports.. [Read
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8,000 VISITORS ATTEND FIRST EASTER MEDWAY
FESTIVAL
OVER 8,000 people
visited Chatham’s Historic Dockyard
over the two days of the Medway Festival
of Steam & Transport held on April 20/21,
reports Alan Barnes.
[Read on..]
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Mend it like McEwen
Fascinated by steam all of his life, Alan
McEwen was fortunate enough to be able to
turn his passion into a thriving boilermaking
business. John Hobbs meets the man
who gets much closer to steam engines than
many of us. [Read
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