May 2022

Old Glory

Old Glory Britain's best-selling magazine for steam and vintage machinery enthusiasts

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Editorial
Well here we are again, I write this having kept away from Covid over the past two years. I religiously wore a mask, sticking out in the crowd unfortunately. I then take it off, wham! I have come down with Covid, that’s life as they say, but I am a l
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Editor: Peter Love Tel: 01323 833125 Email: og.ed@kelsey.co.uk Technical Advisor: Derek Rayner C Eng, MI Mech E Art editor: Paul Silk Sue Fixter, Publishing Works Tel: 01507 499082 Email: sue@publishing-works.com Advertisement Mananger: David Lane Of
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Coronation May Mark 60th Anniversary Of Glasgow’s Last Tram
A Glasgow Coronation tram may be fully restored in time to mark the 60th anniversary of the city’s last tram on 4 September 1962, thanks to volunteers at Summerlee Industrial Museum, home to Scotland’s only working heritage tramway. They’ve been rest
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Looking Back
Foden No. 13848 was supplied new to Derby County Council in 1931 as an H-type 5 ton three-way tipper. The H-type differed from the normal C-type by being fitted with a smaller 5 ton boiler, had only two speeds and the front axle was fitted with coil
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Aec Regent Sets New Resoration Standards
You can see this amazing 1931 AEC Regent as part of the new exhibition tracing the history of Birmingham City Transport across the decades says Denis Chick which is now open at Transport Museum Wythall. Part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival, the exhib
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Farsley Talk On The 1758 Middleton Railway
Following the enforced lay-off as a result of Covid, there will be another in the successful series of ‘Transport and Steam’ illustrated evening presentations organised by the Friends of Pudsey Roller in late May, continuing their fund raising activi
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Looking Good
Arecent arrival in Kent is 1923 Burrell 6hp single-crank compound No. 3918 doublegeared sprung traction engine Victoria. The engine was offered by Berrybrook Steam & Classics in the West Country and was sold to Will Day in August 2021, who could not
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Looking Good!
Seen on the Mountfield Vintage Road Run on Sunday 28 March is the 1944 AEC Matador still in Noyce Brothers, Salisbury colours. The vehicle was bought by well known Caterpillar D2 and D6 owner Danny without its timber crane and twisted rear chassis wh
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New Book From Arthur Battelle
The latest book from the pen of 93-year-old Arthur Battelle, Memories of a Country Boy, is Arthur’s story from his earliest possible memories right up to his final days as a working man with Roadless Traction. The book is full of anecdotes and though
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All Happening In Anglesey
In an effort to get ahead Anglesey’s scaffolding king Allan Kelly recently called in boiler inspector Jonathan Wheeler to go through his engines ready for the season ahead. Alan said the day went very well and he is now ready for the season. He hopes
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Fbhvc Rallies In Support Of Carbon Balancing Scheme
The FBHVC (Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs) announced a carbon balancing scheme to the historic vehicle community last December. Whilst recognising that the carbon footprint of the historic vehicle movement is already immeasurably small,
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Celebrating 40 Years Of Hillhead!
Join the QMJ Group in the run up to this year’s Hillhead as we celebrate 40 years of the iconic quarrying, construction, and recycling exhibition. Over the past four decades Hillhead has grown to be a show like no other – from the humble beginnings o
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Transport Museum Wythall Appeal For Midland Red D7 Restoration Funding
Transport Museum Wythall takes on a new challenge, the restoration of Midland Red D7 double decker bus No. 4482, the only existing D7 with a viable restoration opportunity. The 350 D7s could be found throughout Midland Red’s large territory and were
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Masses More At Malvern This May
The Spring Tractor World Show, the traditional tractor show season opener, returns to the Three Counties Showground in Malvern on a brand new date: Saturday and Sunday 21 and 22 May. Making the most of this iconic venue including the indoor halls, th
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Ready For The Season Ahead
In March Jeff Burgess visited the Essex & Suffolk Water Museum of Power, Langford near Maldon, Essex on ‘Volunteers Day,’ which is normally a Tuesday and 30 or so people were on site readying various parts of the Museum for the season ahead. The big
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Model News
In 1/24 scale is this diecast 1937 Ford pick-up in metallic green with black wings [1]. The doors and bonnet (hood) are openable and the front wheels are steerable. RRP is £17.99. These popular trucks were fitted with a flathead V8 and 3-speed transm
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Old Glory Events Guide 2022
SEVAC AGM - Cross in Hand Village Hall, TN21 0SN. 7:30-8pm start. Hot dinner of beef hot pot with apple pie and custard for afters, & a presentation of the history of SEVAC. St Richard’s Canal Festival, Vines Park, Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, WR9
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Tribute To Jim Sarney
In 1985 Jim then set up ‘Amalgamated Heavy Haulage’ with the help from others and different divisions were painted on the awning sides of the engines, Jim and Lord Roberts were the ‘Southern Division,’ Len Crane and his Fowler were the ‘Midland Divis
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Robeys On View
The Robey Trust of Tavistock in Devon held an open weekend at their museum/workshop premises ‘The Works’ over the weekend 18-19 September. Promoted with eye-catching publicity the weekend was called ‘Strawberries, Cream and Steam.’ Two of the trust’s
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Letters
Dear Editor I found John Blatchford’s “Small Mobile Cranes” most interesting having spent most of my working life in the crane manufacturing industry. John makes no mention of Herbert Morris Ltd where I was an apprentice and later worked in the drawi
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Cider Pressing In The New Forest
Autumn presents a good opportunity to combine steam with apples and a cider press to produce apple juice for fermenting into cider, and New Forest Cider at Burley held a “Barnyard Bash” on their grounds over the weekend of 9-10 October, reports Paul
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Saunders Christmas Road Run, 29 December 2021
After an enforced break in 2020 the annual Saunders collection Christmas road run returned in 2021 with a fine selection of the Saunders fleet heading out on to the roads on the Wednesday between Christmas and New Year, reports Simon Colbeck. The cir
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CLASSIC CAR & RESTORATION SHOW 2022
Spring is here and so is the 2022 events season, and it all kicked off with the Classic Car & Restoration Show at Birmingham’s NEC on 18-20 March. Hard-working restorers exhibited the fruits of their labours over the winter, while others were optimis
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Roller Restorations
Niall Byrne and his partner Hannah Bickley are based at Ruabon near Wrexham in North Wales and have displayed a couple of rollers at various events around the country, including Onslow Park, the Great Dorset Steam Fair 2013 Roller Special, Hollowell,
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Britain’s Heritage Rail Sector Expresses Support For Counterparts In Ukraine
If you have something for this column please send it to: colin.tyson@kelsey.co.uk Members of the Heritage Railway Association voted unanimously at its Annual General Meeting on March 9 to record their solidarity and sympathy with those operating and
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Advising Against 1940s ‘War Weekends’
At the request of Heritage Railway Association members, the trade body has also considered what advice it could give to organisations planning and running military reenactment events during the conflict in Ukraine. After due consideration by the boar
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New Season At Crich Tramway Village
Crich Tramway Village, home to the National Tramway Museum, reopened after winter maintenance on Saturday March 12. After a difficult couple of years, the popular visitor attraction managed to open for some time during 2020 and 2021, though operating
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Meet The Team
Editor-at-large - Former York school teacher who has worked with the editor since 1995 and has a wealth of knowledge on steam, commercials and tractors. Technical and Vintage World Editor - Derek’s knowledge is extensive, a steam roller owner since t
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Bio-coal Still Under Trial
The Bure Valley Railway, Advanced Steam Tractions Trust and the Heritage Railway Association have held a further set of trials to test bio-coal under more arduous working conditions. After an initial trial under normal Bure Valley operating condition
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‘Hidden’ Southern Collection Consigned To Auction
Over sixty items of Southern railway interest and trolleybus memorabilia that had been squirrelled away in a container for years by the family of a deceased collector are to come to auction in June. Highlights from the Bournemouth trolleybus system,
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Coal ‘Ovoids’ On Trial
The total annual UK usage of coal for all heritage purposes (railways, traction engines, pumping stations and so on) is only around 30,000 tons, against millions of tons of crushed coal for industrial uses. With coal for domestic uses being rapidly p
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Wina Massey 35 Deluxe!
IN SUPPORT OF Just £5 per entry with 100% going to BOAT (Bicton Overseas Agricultural Trust), formed in 1991 by a group of Devon farmers and the Principal of Bicton College with a desire to help people from developing countries to produce more food a
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Hcea 2021 Annual Convention - Part 1
The 2021 Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA) International Convention and Old Equipment Exposition was held at Concordia, Kansas, USA, postponed from 2020 because of the Covid pandemic. Located in the middle of America’s heartland, C
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Keeping The Legacy Alive
Richard Lygo recalls pushing his daughter Sara in her pram around the first rally they attended, at Cromford. Growing up with that interest and enthusiasm within the steam world, it was perhaps inevitable that young Sara would grow up with an ambitio
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Steam Survives In Staffordshire
Travelling on the train between Derby and Burton upon Trent, the train passes an old industrial looking building to which many people will not give a second glance. Complete with tall chimney, the building does indeed belong to the Victorian era, and
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In The Service Of Uncle Sam
In 2000 my brother Steve and I purchased the remains of five Great War Dennis subsidy lorries from Mick Giles in Bedfordshire. These lorries had been built to a Government approved design and purchasers would have received a cash subsidy for buying a
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Steam Buses – Almost On A Road To Nowhere!
Such names as Walter Hancock [Fig. 1] and Goldsworthy Gurney made great strides in this direction and passenger-carrying services were operated by Hancock between Stratford and central London in 1832 and the following year between London Wall via Isl
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A Weather-bound Arctic Roll
There have been several puns in the magazine about Swiss Rolls over the years but, as far as is known, nothing has yet featured about that other sweet treat, the Arctic Roll - until perhaps now… When referring to one of these, it’s usually thought of
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Maldegem Steam Festival 2022
For the first time since 2019, writes Kevin Hoggett, the covid restrictions have relaxed sufficiently to enable a steam festival to be held once again at Maldegem, Belgium, on Saturday and Sunday 31 April and 1 May. It’s hoped to have six locos in st
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A Mogul Tractor Restoration
A dvice comes from Andy Plunkett that he’s been busy of late helping in the restoration of a 1911 20hp IHC Mogul Type C tractor and plough at Gindie, about 12 miles south of Emerald in Central Queensland. It’s around the youngest of some six of this
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British-built Tank Engines At Shantytown
Shantytown Heritage Park is a recreated gold-rush village about six miles south of Greymouth on the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island, writes Phil Barnes. One of its main attractions is a train ride along an original bush tramway line through
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A-z Of Steam Vehicles
If he has missed some out please do supply us with information. ABELL See American Abell In 1858, Daniel Adamson of Hyde Junction, Dukinfield in the Manchester area built a road engine to haul an omnibus for a Mr Schmidt. More may have followed and o
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Hays Museum Trucks Star At Spring Classic
Over 25-26 March the very cold Mecum Auctions Spring Classic at Mississippi Parkway, East Moline, Illinois, USA saw most of the Hays Museum veteran truck collection dispersed. The Museum is based in California and the editor took many groups to see t
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Mathewsons Left-overs
Following Mathewsons (TV Bangers and Cash) two-day sale at Pickering on 18-19 March there were a few lots left over of interest to Old Glory readers. The first is a November 1934 Fordson BB 2-ton petrol tanker VY5876 in lovely patina’d condition. Als
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Sales Diary
28 to 3 May – Timed Online Auction of The Richard Dobson Collection – Period Livng Wagons, Scammell Highwayman & Fairground Memorabilia. Bradford, Yorks. Cheffins www.cheffins.co.uk 29 - Online Machinery Sale. York Auction Centre, www.ylc.co.uk 29 –
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’22 Events Guide Part 2 Aug-dec
WELCOME! Well, here we are again, the early season events have seen strong crowds throughout and I’m sure that will be the case during the second half of the season. Back after a two-year gap, owing to the Covid situation, is the Great Dorset Steam F
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Next Issue
Tel: 01959 541444 – shop.kelsey.co.uk David Reed looks at a fine steam museum and its smaller engines. Steam wagon expert Bob Moorman looks at the W J King sale and traces what has happened to all the wagons. Tim Gosling carries on his story on lorry
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Two Guests Announced For Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Diesel Festival
The Severn Valley Railway has announced two guest locomotives that will be visiting for its Spring Diesel Festival in May. BR Class 44 No. 44004 Great Gable (D4) and BR Class 46 46045 (D182) will visit for the 19-22 May event, with the latter returni

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