ALLEY & MACLELLAN Near but yet so far!
The Marden Motor Car Club has been in existence for some 63 years and has staged an excellent small gathering, in July, near Headcorn, Kent for many years, thanks to the Day family. Will Day joins in the fun and displays some of his cars, as well as his steam engines. This year the plan was to steam his unique 1907 Alley & MacLellan waggon No. 190 for the first time in public, which he has owned for approximately 21 years.
Alley & MacLellan waggons were built in Glasgow and marketed as ‘The Sentinel’. Production moved to Shrewsbury in 1915 and they became established as ‘The Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd’ from 1918.
Will’s waggon was exported when new to Argentina, and is thought to have been used in a railway goods yard in Buenos Aires. It
