Editor's Intro
Comment... October 2011
15 September 2011
Money and water don’t mix... Of all the various steam and vintage items that preservationists have saved, restored and operated over the last 50 years or so, there can be no sector that is such a seemingly thankless task as keeping an historic vessel fit for purpose; i.e. ‘in the water’ and keeping it in the water.
Comment... September 2011
18 August 2011.
YOU know it’s the height of the rally season when you need a scythe to find your front door – the garden’s looking a little neglected and any window of opportunity to do something about it gets scuppered by the fact it’s just too wet, due to the great summer we’re having.
Comment... August 2011
21 July 2011.
Britain’s not working ADVERTISING and marketing people love a ‘concept statement’ and one that we frequently use on the front cover of Old Glory is the tagline ‘When Britain was Workshop to the World’.
Paint your wagon
16 June 2011.
THERE has been much excitement of late from my editorial colleagues here at Mortons on their respective railway magazines.
Brighton great...
19 May 2011.
If steam is a religion, then its gospel was well and truly taken to the people on Sunday 1 May, when the Searle family and the ‘Thursday Night Crew’ took their three engine and heavy load road train to the 50th anniversary London to Brighton commercial vehicle run.
All hands to the pump…
17 March 2011.
The traction engine fraternity has the National Traction Engine Trust and the heritage railways have the Heritage Railway Association.
Welcome... March 2011
17 February 2011.
Just like a steam engine, every 10 years or so a magazine enters the works for an overhaul. At this point its basic components are stripped bare, its inner workings are laid down and a rebuild begins, then its all finished off with a smart new coat of paint.
Comment... January 2011
16 December 2010.
AND SO we reach the end of another decade, one that started with the year of the Burrell and ended with the year of the McLaren as Great Dorset Steam Fair themes, not forgetting the 40th anniversary year along the way in 2008.
Potteries in pieces
18 November 2010.
THE COALITION Government’s spending cuts planned for local authorities has seen many councils prepare and release their budget proposal consultation document – stating where savings could be made – and it looks like Stoke-on-Trent City Council are proposing to be the first bull in the china shop.
Current Issue: June 2013
♦ £49,000 for Cambridge horse tram
♦ HCVS – Brighton run remembers chairman Ron
♦ 12 days of Beamish
♦ The ultimate in Marshall rollers
♦ Fowler's UK rally debut
♦ Moving away from steam: the Foden ‘R’ Type
♦ Death and destruction – mill engines and boilers
♦ Pickfords Wallis tractor ♦ Penny slots
♦ Scotland’s last wheelwright
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: June 20, 2013
