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[eliteomegaman]

Hey Lizzie i know u love railway engines etc but thought i'd ask u if u like steam tractor engines?

Saw one yesterday rumbling down a coutry lane & i didn't realise how fascinating & superb they actually are 

Where i live is the late Fred Dibnah's home town of Bolton & his house is still standing & preserved as a museum with a working back garden - brilliant!! 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Hey Lizzie i know u love railway engines etc but thought i'd ask u if u like steam tractor engines?

Saw one yesterday rumbling down a coutry lane & i didn't realise how fascinating & superb they actually are 

Where i live is the late Fred Dibnah's home town of Bolton & his house is still standing & preserved as a museum with a working back garden - brilliant!! 

Yes I love them and with my ex used to go to steam fairs down here in the south.

They are absolutely fascinating pieces of engineering equipment, and I particularly love the large showman engines 8-) 8-)

When I was a child I can just remember Tunbridge Wells council still using them to steam roller freshly tar macked roads, with their dancing Invicta horse on the front.

In Chatham we had the factory of Aveling and Porter, who built more of these engines then any other manufacturer, but only a few months ago their old factory was demolished

Here is one at work as originally intended:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/kent/hi/front_page/newsid_8330000/8330293.stm

 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

A showmans engine at its finest:



 8-) 8-) 8-)

[Ploppy]

Hi Lizzie...

have you ever been to the Thursford Collection in Norfolk??

Its fantastic !!

Ploppy

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Hi Lizzie...

have you ever been to the Thursford Collection in Norfolk??

Its fantastic !!

Ploppy

No Ploppy I have not, although I have visited Norfolk twice 8-) 8-)

I must put that on my list; thanks

[Dodger]

Lizzie, you would just LOVE the Great Dorset Steam Fair,
more steam engines than you could shake a stick at, all working, and I mean working... running fairground rides, ploughing, threshing, etc... not just sitting there.
Paradise!!

[The Red Baron]

Lizzie, you would just LOVE the Great Dorset Steam Fair,
more steam engines than you could shake a stick at, all working, and I mean working... running fairground rides, ploughing, threshing, etc... not just sitting there.
Paradise!!

my ticket is on its way, thanks to vintage spirit magazine

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Lizzie, you would just LOVE the Great Dorset Steam Fair,
more steam engines than you could shake a stick at, all working, and I mean working... running fairground rides, ploughing, threshing, etc... not just sitting there.
Paradise!!

I have heard good things about that steam fair Dodger, but never some how got to it.  Must do one day; another one on the list!!

[djac]

Hey Lizzie i know u love railway engines etc but thought i'd ask u if u like steam tractor engines?

Saw one yesterday rumbling down a coutry lane & i didn't realise how fascinating & superb they actually are 

Where i live is the late Fred Dibnah's home town of Bolton & his house is still standing & preserved as a museum with a working back garden - brilliant!! 

Yes I love them and with my ex used to go to steam fairs down here in the south.

They are absolutely fascinating pieces of engineering equipment, and I particularly love the large showman engines 8-) 8-)

When I was a child I can just remember Tunbridge Wells council still using them to steam roller freshly tar macked roads, with their dancing Invicta horse on the front.

In Chatham we had the factory of Aveling and Porter, who built more of these engines then any other manufacturer, but only a few months ago their old factory was demolished

Here is one at work as originally intended:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/kent/hi/front_page/newsid_8330000/8330293.stm

 

There is a vintage steam collection not far from me:

www.hollycombe.co.uk

Just looked on their website, apparently they have a couple of Aveling and Porter engines in their collection.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Hey Lizzie i know u love railway engines etc but thought i'd ask u if u like steam tractor engines?

Saw one yesterday rumbling down a coutry lane & i didn't realise how fascinating & superb they actually are 

Where i live is the late Fred Dibnah's home town of Bolton & his house is still standing & preserved as a museum with a working back garden - brilliant!! 

Yes I love them and with my ex used to go to steam fairs down here in the south.

They are absolutely fascinating pieces of engineering equipment, and I particularly love the large showman engines 8-) 8-)

When I was a child I can just remember Tunbridge Wells council still using them to steam roller freshly tar macked roads, with their dancing Invicta horse on the front.

In Chatham we had the factory of Aveling and Porter, who built more of these engines then any other manufacturer, but only a few months ago their old factory was demolished

Here is one at work as originally intended:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/kent/hi/front_page/newsid_8330000/8330293.stm

 

There is a vintage steam collection not far from me:

www.hollycombe.co.uk

Just looked on their website, apparently they have a couple of Aveling and Porter engines in their collection.

Thanks for that, and that is close enough to me for a trip! 8-) 8-)

[Sixstring]

Wasn't that AVELING AND BARFORD???

[The Red Baron]

Wasn't that AVELING AND BARFORD???

no that is aveling & porter, barford came into aveling i believe nearer the end of steam production, a few aveling barford steam rollers are about but most were the diesel kind.
actualy, barford went with aveling circa 1933/4 & had its factory in grantham, lincs.

[Sixstring]

Ah. cheers mate.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

This is the old Aveling & Porter building that was still standing in Strood, Kent:



Now just demolished by heartless, uncaring, philistines!!

[Andy B]

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Now just demolished by heartless, uncaring, philistines!!

We're lucky that St Pancreas is still standing aren't we, that was ear marked for demolition too!