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Question for LizzieZoom
« on: 06 June 2010, 18:59:05 »

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  :o :o

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!!  :y :y :y
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« Reply #1 on: 06 June 2010, 19:14:22 »

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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  :o :o

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!!  :y :y :y


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

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

 :y :y
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« Reply #2 on: 06 June 2010, 19:18:01 »

A showmans engine at its finest:



 8-) 8-) 8-)
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« Reply #3 on: 06 June 2010, 20:06:27 »

Hi Lizzie...

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

Its fantastic !!

Ploppy :y
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« Reply #4 on: 06 June 2010, 20:15:40 »

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Hi Lizzie...

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

Its fantastic !!

Ploppy :y

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

I must put that on my list; thanks :y :y :y
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« Reply #5 on: 06 June 2010, 21:42:08 »

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!! :y
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« Reply #6 on: 06 June 2010, 21:48:13 »

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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!! :y
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« Reply #7 on: 06 June 2010, 21:49:49 »

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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!! :y


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!! :D :D :y :y
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« Reply #8 on: 06 June 2010, 22:01:32 »

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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  :o :o

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!!  :y :y :y


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

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

 :y :y

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.
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« Reply #9 on: 06 June 2010, 22:03:31 »

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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  :o :o

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!!  :y :y :y


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

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

 :y :y

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-) :y
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« Reply #10 on: 08 June 2010, 11:27:50 »

Wasn't that AVELING AND BARFORD???
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« Reply #11 on: 08 June 2010, 11:33:02 »

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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. :y
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« Reply #12 on: 08 June 2010, 12:04:32 »

Ah. cheers mate.
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« Reply #13 on: 08 June 2010, 12:09:50 »

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



Now just demolished by heartless, uncaring, philistines!! :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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« Reply #14 on: 08 June 2010, 12:13:15 »

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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!  :o
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