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Peter Love, Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL Tel: 01323 833125 peterlove@madasafish.com

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Dear Editor

I’ve just been reading a local book about a country farm worker call “Old Mont.” In about 1913/14 he was head carter working on a farm. During the early part of World War 1 they hired the Oxford Steam Plough Company to help with the ploughing. Nearing the end of the job the foreman received a telegram informing him that they had to move all their equipment to Biggin Hill where a new air field was being built. How long would this have taken and which route would they have used?

Peter Long, ex-Berkely JCB

via e-mail

More than likely these would be single-cylinder Fowler ploughing engines with new Allen boilers and cast chimneys and would date from possibly late 1870s-80s as hardly any steam