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NEW ZEALAND’S LAST CRABTREE ENGINE?

The ‘gate-guard’ at the Timber Museum just south of Putaruru on New Zealand’s North Island is the last one remaining of three heavy-duty horizontal steam engines built by W Crabtree & Sons of Wellington, writes Phil Barnes.

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