A RARE SENTINEL DIESEL WAGGON FOUND IN AUSTRALIA

news item carried in a recent copy of the Melbourne Steam Traction Engine, courtesy of its editor, , reports that Tim Ellis has found and retrieved the only known surviving Australian remains of a Sentinel diesel lorry from a dump near Parkes in New South Wales. The Sentinel works at Shewsbury transitioned from steam waggons to diesels in the early 1950s. The unique feature of this type of diesel truck was an under-body engine similar to that of their latter design of ’S’ type steam waggons. About half a dozen of these diesel lorries were exported to Australia but the design was not a success and so they are now a very rare beast, even in the UK.