kcm.MN
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thehickdaddy
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Sooo beautiful.
Look at the pin striping
Look at those headlights.
And the hard rubber tires
And the water hose hanging and ready for
use.
Looks like cylinders are different sizes
to me, so I am guessing compound engine?
Look at the pin striping
Look at those headlights.
And the hard rubber tires
And the water hose hanging and ready for
use.
Looks like cylinders are different sizes
to me, so I am guessing compound engine?
Steve@Advance
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European tag says it was used on the road, may have been military.
Nice!
Nice!
Majorman
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- Location
- Scarning, Norfolk, England
They were road haulage engines used to transport products on trailers around the country.
The engine in the first picture is an example of a Showman's Engine that hauled and powered the mobile fairground lighting and rides. For a short period in history, we had steam powered traction engines used in farming and forestry, ploughing engines, stationary steam engines that powered farm equipment, road engines for haulage work, Showman's engines for the fairgrounds, engines with cranes and winches and steam powered lorries (trucks). All disappeared as the internal combustion engine grew in size and reliability.
In my early years I can remember riding on the traction engine that brought the threshing tackle to the farm where we lived and the steam tar lorry that resurfaced the roads. By the time I was seven or eight the steamers had been replaced with Field Marshall single cylinder diesels on the threshing tackle and had been sold for scrap at 50.00 English pounds each.
The engine in the first picture is an example of a Showman's Engine that hauled and powered the mobile fairground lighting and rides. For a short period in history, we had steam powered traction engines used in farming and forestry, ploughing engines, stationary steam engines that powered farm equipment, road engines for haulage work, Showman's engines for the fairgrounds, engines with cranes and winches and steam powered lorries (trucks). All disappeared as the internal combustion engine grew in size and reliability.
In my early years I can remember riding on the traction engine that brought the threshing tackle to the farm where we lived and the steam tar lorry that resurfaced the roads. By the time I was seven or eight the steamers had been replaced with Field Marshall single cylinder diesels on the threshing tackle and had been sold for scrap at 50.00 English pounds each.
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