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    Time to move on… PART ONE

    Jul 31, 2020 5 minutes

    SCHOOLBOY AMBITION

    It was always my schoolboy ambition to own a steam traction engine, plus an ERA racing car, preferably R4D, the ex-Raymond Mays works car, clearly the fastest of the breed before and after WW2.

    The former was a possibility, but the latter was just fantasy, but at least I did sit in R4D many years ago now. I also have a lovely 1995 Max Hamblen painting of it with Ken Wharton driving it up Shelsley Walsh setting a new hillclimb record in 1954, the dual rear wheels making it look even more feisty!

    Back to reality, and at one time I never thought I could even get enough money together to buy a steam roller let alone a traction engine. Motor mechanics were not paid

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