Some 76 single-crank compound 7hp unsprung double-geared Burrell traction engines were built between 1897-1914 and No. 3164, AH5799, left the Burrell works at Thetford on 9 December 1909 and arrived at Bircham, north-west Norfolk, under the ownership of Herbert Edgar and Arthur Phillip Warton. They owned, and rented, five farms in this area; Pond House Farm at Bircham Tofts, Old Hall Farm in Ingoldisthorpe, Courtyard Farm in Ringstead, Ling Farm in Thornham and Church Farm in Bircham, farming around 1,100 acres in total.
During their time with her she was involved in a rick fire in 1927 and was returned to Burrell for repair. She was then sold on to Joe Bushell, a threshing contractor based in Ringstead, Dorset in 1939-1940, where she remained until 1947. The engine was kept alive as a stationary boiler on a mushroom farm, whose sterilising boiler was being repaired.
Another Bushell Burrell single-crank compound was also sent away at that time to pull tree trunks out of some land to make way for a children’s playground. In the summer of 1948, while No. 3164 was being used as a stationary
