ONE WHICH HAS PREVIOUSLY ESCAPED OUR NOTICE!!
There have been several references in recent issues of the magazine to the discovery of a number of previously ‘unknown’ steam rollers in India, especially ones of the TATA-MARSHALL type, which rollers were part-manufactured in the country.
These comprised a boiler and engine unit supplied by the well-known Gainsborough company of Marshall, Sons & Co. Ltd under contract to the Indian Government and which were completed in India by TELCO (the Tata Locomotive and Engineering Company) at Jamshedpur.
The discovery of one of these now somewhat rare rollers in Gwalior and its subsequent transportation to the Heritage Transport Museum on the Bilaspur - Taoru Road, Gurugram, (Haryana) - together with its refurbishment, has featured in these pages recently (OG 359 and OG 361), courtesy of information supplied by Tarun Thakral, the Director and Founder of the museum.
Tarun visited Europe in the autumn of 2019 in order to participate in an International Transport Museum Conference in Berlin and, following this, 355) as he felt this would be useful to him - since his museum’s Marshall was missing some parts.
