Innehållsförteckning för August 2021 från Old Glory

David Reed Editor-at-large - Former York school teacher who has worked with the editor since 1995 and has a wealth of knowledge on steam, commercials and tractors. Derek Rayner Technical and Vintage World Editor - Derek’s knowledge is extensive, a steam roller owner since the 1960s and a world traveller in search of nothing but the best. Bob Moorman Rally Archive Editor - This former engineering inspector is a fount of knowledge and has been rallying since the 70s. His own restos are award winners, as his ex-Kings 1927 Foden will be now that it’s finished! Mike Neale Diecast Models Editor – It’s a great pleasure to welcome this well-known model expert and photographer who is an architect by trade, to the magazine. Nick Baldwin Senior Correspondent - It’s a…

1916: Despatched to War Dept (Forage Dept) presumably for baling and transporting hay for Army horses. Possibly bought by speculator Edgar J Edgar when demobbed in 1920. 1921: With Stephen A Whittome (large threshing contractor of Ramsey, moving in 1922 to Benwick, Isle of Ely). First given Huntingdon registration EW 2322 but ‘swapped’ with EW 2320 (ex-Ransomes No. 19766) during the move to Benwick. Most of Whittome’s engines were last licensed in 1953-54 but this engine was retained. 1960: Preserved locally with R E Gale of Coates, Ely (Gales apparently had many engines, but only this one was owned by R E Gale). 1964: With Robert Baxter of Eye Green, Peterborough. 1971: For sale with dealer F C Lambe of Bromsgrove. 1974 onwards: With Des Penny, Binegar, Somerset - stayed…

Our monthly check in with Rob Clifford-Wing, Chairman of the National Traction Engine Trust (NTET), starts with Rob talking about the “Herculean” journey being made by fellow Cornish engine owner Alan “Pasty” Caple on his 1923 Aveling & Porter E Type piston valve roller No. 10594 Hercules says Paul Ritchie. Pasty, a committee member of West of England Steam Engine Society (WESES), is roading his engine with his team around the coast of Cornwall in a clockwise direction raising money for Cornwall Hospice Care. Cornwall Hospice Care is a 24/7 Cornish charity which provides specialist care for people with terminal illnesses. Their clinical teams support patients and their families at Mt. Edgcumbe Hospice in St Austell, St Julia’s Hospice in Hayle, in Cornwall’s hospitals, care homes and in the community.…

The restoration of former County Donegal Railways 2-6-4t number 5 Drumboe is firmly back on track at Heritage Engineering Ireland’s Whitehead base, after engineers, furloughed from the start of 2021, came back to work on 1 May. The locomotive’s rolling chassis has been moved into the Henry Dunleath workshop where work is underway on replacing the cylinder cladding. A new bunker has been fabricated and, after assessment, it was decided to replace all of the cab steel, although some ironwork has been restored and re-used on both it and the bunker. Niall McCaughan, Donegal Railway Heritage Centre manager, said: “We’re delighted that work has restarted and is going on apace, so that we hope to welcome Drumboe back home to Donegal in the autumn. Although the current work, which has…

Tracks both broad and narrow, on the Irish 5ft 3in and 3ft gauge, are being laid at the restored Belturbet Station by members of the Belturbet Heritage Railway group, writes Hugh Dougherty. Plans are to have 1km of narrow and broad gauge tracks laid on the former Cavan & Leitrim and Great Northern Railway of Ireland trackbeds, and terminating at the original station platform, used as an interchange between Belturbet’s two railways. The ambitious plan, which would be the first to restore broad and narrow gauge tracks running together in Ireland, aims to run the station’s existing 5ft 3in gauge Ruston diesel and a former Bord na Mona 3ft gauge Ruston, which saw service in Mayo, before being bought by a private owner for use on a short line at…

Without doubt the star at Darren Fuller’s revived Broyle County Transport Show that took place over 26-27 June near Ringmer, East Sussex was the Kemp family’s August 1909 Marshall No. 53082 2.5-3hp single-cylinder slide-valve portable. The engine was repatriated by Mike White in 2017 from Bologna, Italy. It has recently been retubed and with a good boiler report was put up for sale by Mike and purchased by Bryn and Marion Kemp and family on 12 June. When we caught up with the engine on its third steaming with the Kemps, the steam pressure went up up to 120psi working pressure when the safety valves were raised for the first time in their ownership. It’s a most interesting engine with a hand water pump fitted on the n/s outer wrapper,…

JULY 31 JULY Autojumble & Collectors Fair, Nutts Corner, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Further information: tel: 079 36389125 AUGUST 31-1 AUGUST 50th Cromford Steam & Vehicle Rally - High Acres Farm, Dewey Lane, Brackenfield Nr Matlock, Derbyshire,_DE55 6DB, Ken Bowmer (chairman). Further information: tel: 01629 582272 ken@salswood.co.uk Aug Gaydon Land Rover British Motor Museum, Gardon Warwickshire, CV35 0BJ - Further details: britishmotoprmuseum.co.uk Southport Auto Centre Charity Car & Motor Cycle Display - Wright Street, behind Southport College, which will be closed off to traffic. In aid of Macmillan Cancer Support & Southport Cancer Information and Support Centre. Further information, tel: 01704 884418 Driffield Steam Fair, Driffield Showground, Kelleythorpe, Driffield, East Yorkshire. Full show under a new team 10-5pm 11th Whitwell & Reepham Railway Steam Rally - Whitwell & Reepham Station…

TASKER AND FOSTER ENGINES Dear Editor Following our conversation I thought you would be interested to see the attached photo of Tasker B2 No. 1431 following its conversion to showman’s tractor for J Rowland. As you know 1431 had previously served the French’s in standard B2 tractor form. I am unable to credit the photographer. I was interested to learn that you might have discovered some form of image of Foster No. 3267. In 1933 my great uncle Joe French moved from Plumpton to a property named Toll Lodge in the Warbleton area. He had retained the Foster so I think it is quite possible she remained in work with timber in the surrounding area. To the best of my knowledge she was scrapped during WW2. I know you mentioned…

Classic children’s film The Railway Children is to receive a sequel, more than 50 years after the original. Sheridan Smith will star alongside Jenny Agutter, who is reprising her role as eldest daughter Bobbie Waterbury. The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, which saw a spike in visitor numbers when the original film was shot there, is also featuring in the remake. Shooting on The Railway Children Return began in May, led by Bafta-winning director Morgan Matthews. The film is due in cinemas on April 1 2022. The original film was based on the novel by Edith Nesbit about three children who are shipped off to live in the country beside a railway line after their father is arrested on mysterious spying charges. Agutter played the eldest child in a 1968…

Jurassic - the 1903 vintage steam locomotive on the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway, successfully passed her steam test, which enabled her to return to service when the railway reopened on July 24 for its summer season at Skegness Water Leisure Park. Jurassic was built in Bristol by Peckett & Sons for use in the quarries of Kaye and Co. Ltd, cement manufacturers, at Southam in Warwickshire, and was acquired by the LCLR in 1961. She is described as a coal-fired 0-6-0 saddle tank and her elegant lines, long chimney, shimmering brass and sinuous curves have earned her many admirers over the intervening 118 years. The railway did not operate in 2020, which was the 60th anniversary of it opening as the first heritage railway in the world to be built…

These days we really do take a lot for granted. Every size and type of construction machine can be hired or bought with a simple call or e-mail. The interesting part is what came before this; in particular during the 1940s to 1960s when the present types had yet to be invented. It coincided with the formative years of my youth. The beauty of these heritage machines is their lack of sophistication that makes them easily repairable for the enthusiast. This, coupled with their small size, makes them eminently collectable and showable. Young folk can relate to their small size. Mobile cranes are regarded as being confined to yards, warehouses and factories, as distinct from lorry-mounted ones which can go for miles on the highways. Some mobiles could propel themselves…

During a visit to Tasmania, Kevin Hoggett and wife Rika discovered the Beaconsfield Mine and Heritage Centre, situated along a scenic drive by the Tamar River north of Launceston. Beaconsfield was a gold mining town where the last mine closed as recently as 2012. Plinthed outside the museum’s old winding engine house, marked ‘Hart Shaft, 1904’, is a portable boiler built by Johnson & Sons, Tyne Foundry, South Melbourne. Through the modern reception hall, in the first exhibition hall it became evident that the centre’s website does not do the collection justice! On display was an 1899 horizontal single-cylinder stationary engine which worked at a sawmill until the 1930s. It was locally built by Knights of Launceston and raised above it was a UK-built Manchester lorry. Tangye’s of Birmingham featured…

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FORESTRY VEHICLES Bob looks at surviving steam vehicles that worked in the woods years back. ATCO MOWERS ANNIVERSARY Andrew Hall tells us about the anniversary of this famous manufacturer. RUNNING A MINIATURE RAILWAY Dave Vaughan takes a look at a commercial miniature railway that is coping with life in Covid times. AMAZING SHOWMAN’S LIVING VAN We look at an amazing showman’s living van restoration - a story that started nearly 40 years ago now and has only just been completed. Somehow the restorers should be given some award for what they have achieved - something truly wonderful! OWNING AN ENGINE FOR 40 YEARS Not many can say they have owned a steam engine for 40 years and still rally it - we catch up with a person who has done…

Well I write this with Covid cases still rising, but we must keep going the best we can. I feel so sorry for the organisers of the Sheffield Steam Rally and the Lymm Rally, both called off at short notice, particularly the Sheffield event. It’s known the organisers had gone well beyond their requirements to comply with Government Covid regulations, but apparently not in the eyes of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. Sadly the event was cancelled at short notice; even Rother Valley MP Alexander Stafford waded in with a petition to ‘save our rally’ but to no avail. However the very same weekend down in East Sussex it was no bother at all for Darren Fuller to staged his first rally with the reincarnation of the old Broyle event on…

Well-known to so many steam and vehicle enthusiasts in the northern rally circuit Tim Holt sadly died on 8 June 2021 at the age of 81. He drove the Cumbria Steam Gathering on to great heights. The former president and rally organiser for 38 years was very much the force behind the success of this late July rally. Classed as controversial by some, he held the show together so well and had a wicked sense of humour. Originally from Rochdale he spent the majority of his life living in Cumbria. He had been a successful chairman of the NTET Rally Organisers Committee for a good number of years. Tim had worked as a prison warden and as a professional Heath & Safety officer. Close friend and CSVVS associate Steve Morris…

It’s only been going a few months now but Allison Engineering Steam Supplies, who purchased Craftmaster Steam Supplies in the spring, have been up and running and completed their 100th order at the end of June. Craftmaster Paints have been so busy they haven’t had the time to concentrate on the steam supplies part of the business that they had previously purchased, so this was put on the market and Allison Engineering purchased the stock. Since that time the stock has been fully sorted out by Brian Allison and Sue Ogden and has been added to. As they say, whatever you need for your steam engine or steam car or railway locomotive, whatever size, whether it’s oil, gland packing, boiler lagging or ceramic insulation to a steam shovel, gauge glasses,…

With all that’s going on and not many events to attend on Saturday 21 August you are all welcome to bring your old machinery from steam engines (small or large), tractors, cars, commercials, stationary engines to the annual Bodle Street Green Fête, nr Hailsham, East Sussex BN27 4UB. It takes place right in the centre of the village. Bodle Street Green will also see old vehicles arrive on Sunday 3 October for its annual tractor road run and vehicle display of all types. Please get in touch with the Old Glory editor Peter Love regarding both these events, tel: 01323 833125.…

During a visit to the Enthusiasts’ Weekend on 12 June I noted quite a few changes since my last visit in 2019 and since the editor’s article appeared in Old Glory last year, writes Dick Bodily. An extension of one running line is to be made between Cogan Halt and Statfold Junction, which when completed will make interesting new workings possible as will connections from both lines to a new loop at Cogan Halt. The formation is already being laid and it is hoped to have track laid in the winter. The event was highlighting Trangkil No 4’s 50th birthday celebration but also present was another Hunslet locomotive (469) 0-6-0ST Hastings, it’s long-ongoing restoration to steaming again completed by framework and wheelset refurbishment carried out at Statfold Barn. It was…

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Old Glory first visited Joe Rawlings of Dorset in late 2020 to record his progress in building his 4½” scale Foden C short wheelbase steam lorry from a Steam Traction World of Daventry kit, says Paul Ritchie. When we last met Joe, he had completed the rolling chassis with wheels, steering, and frames, and had recently taken delivery of the parts to construct the chimney and smokebox. A few months on and the build has advanced greatly with the arrival of the boiler, and he now has 16 out of the total of 26 kits in his grandmother’s garage, in either completed state or in the process of been assembled and painted. For the boiler to be installed clearly the hornplates had already been put in place, and between Joe,…

JULY 30 - Kidderminster Machinery Sale. The Gallops, Stanklyn Lane, Stone, Kidderminster DY10 4AR. Halls, tel: 01562 820880. 30 – Cornwall Online Machinery Collective Auction. Edward Buckland, www.edwardbuckland.co.uk 31 - Dunswell Auction. The Cattle Market, Dunswell, Hull HU6 0AW. Frank Hill, tel: 01964 630531. 31 – Liskeard & District Collective Machinery & Sheep Sale. Bolitho Farm, Liskeard, Cornwall PL14 3GR. Kivells, tel: 0781 3068935. 31 – Dispersal Sale of vehicles, farm Machinery, Implements, Livestock & General Equipment. Pithayes Farm, Church Road, Whimple EX5 2TG. Stags, tel: 01769 572042. AUGUST 5 - Implement Sale. Muirglen, Hyndford Road, Lanark ML11 9AX. Lawrie & Symington, tel: 01555 662281. 6 – Timed Online Auction – York Machinery Sale. York Auction Centre, tel: 01904 489731. 6 - Shrewsbury Plant & Machinery Sale. Shrewsbury Auction Centre,…

The Sheffield Steam & Vintage Show, due to have taken place over the weekend of 26-27 June, was unfortunately cancelled at the last minute. A statement issued on Facebook read: “It is with great sadness and regret we need to let you know that this year’s event is now cancelled.” A statement on the situation will be made shortly, once we have time. This is not a decision on our part and not something we have done easily, but more coerced and forced into by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council after we have gone over and above what was already required of us. It seems we can’t have a rally in a field but you can have football matches in stadiums and horse racing, etc. “Again, we are very sorry and…

Two statues celebrating the work of women workers in Springburn’s locomotive building empire have been saved for posterity, reports Hugh Dougherty. Based on Roman goddess sculptures, the female statues, dating from the opening of Springburn Halls in 1902, which were gifted to the community by locomotive magnate Hugh Reid of Neilson Reid fame, stood on the frontage of the building until it was demolished in 2012. It was believed that the statues, one of which holds an 0-6-0 steam locomotive, with the other grasping locomotive engineering tools, had been destroyed in the demolition, but the figures were discovered in an industrial unit owned by Ng Homes, builder of flats on the site. Known as ‘The Springburn Maidens’, the statues went on public show for the first time since 2012 at…

Aveling & Porter LC8 No. 4885 genuine showman’s road locomotive Samson was seen publicly on Saturday 12 June back together in its showman’s guise for the first time. The Allison crew took the engine to the Horse & Jockey at Northwood, Shropshire where they were joined by David Goddard and his Stanley steam car. A number of enthusiasts came along to witness this unique occasion and see this mighty road locomotive on the road. Brian said the engine goes very well indeed and is in very good condition and ready to be rallied and enjoyed by whoever. The engine is still for sale and is now to be placed in storage until a new owner is found - if you are interested please get in touch with the editor.…

The well-known Bressingham Steam Museum in Norfolk have resumed their calendar of special events. Over the weekend of 26/27 June there was a welcome return for their annual Steam Rally, a slightly scale-down version on previous years and with visitors being required to book in advance, but nonetheless eagerly looked forward to. James Hamilton went along to see the action. There were six visiting engines joined by three from the Bressingham collection and a number of particularly fine model engines, a couple of which were making their first public appearance since being completed. One of them, a 4’’ Burrell road locomotive, is based on 1905 Burrell No.2789 The President, an engine that was once part of the Bressingham collection. The model is owned by Mark Goddard who, since October last…

Colin Tyson gives us the news on standard and narrow gauge railways. If you have something for this column please send it to: colin.tyson@kelsey.co.uk Born in 1930, Lawrence ‘Lawrie’ Marshall sadly passed away on June 9 at his Brighton home. A retired senior bank manager, he had worked at Hudswell Clarke & Co of Leeds and served in the RAF prior to starting his career with Lloyds Bank in 1951. With the writing on the wall towards the end of UK steam in the 1950s and 60s, Lawrie took off to the Spanish narrow gauge lines for his steam fix – making 14 visits to Spain in the 60s to study the locomotives and subsequently wrote the books Renfe Steam Remembered and Spanish Narrow Gauge Steam Remembered. But it was…

Part 2 DISMANTLING AND FURTHER ASSESSMENT I first removed the injection pump from the cambox, at that stage I considered the pump best left totally submerged in a container of diesel. Meanwhile, the injection pump cam followers responded well to a few days soak with penetrating oil. I then commenced totally dismantling the engine, making sure that all components were carefully stowed away ready for further cleaning and assessment. The remaining lubricant in the base chamber of the lower crankcase comprised mainly an evil black sludge; very little would readily drain off on its own. I resorted to dredging most out by hand, discovering a penknife in the process! First for assessment was the crankshaft, this was given a thorough clean prior to measurement of journals and crankpins. The crank…