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Well sadly the big news this month is not good news, as on Saturday 17 February it was announced by Glyn Macdonald, chairman of the Lincolnshire Steam & Vintage Rally, that the event held at the Lincoln Showground on the third weekend in August is fi

As we reported last month, 1926 Aveling & Porter 10hp No. 9449 tramway locomotive with an 8hp road locomotive boiler is having boiler repairs as we speak under Jamie Allen’s careful hands in Cambridgeshire. These include the replacement of the necked

Great news that 1920 Aveling & Porter GND No. 9183 5 ton tractor The Pirate is all completed and is heading back to East Sussex. It needed major boiler work when purchased by the Yeoman family and the engine was sent to Allison Engineering who have r

Although running late, the Science Museum’s progress at its Wroughton Reserve Collection at Wroughton Airfield is coming on well and it’s set for some open days in the autumn of 2024, yes we did originally say 2023! Building One is now being filled a

I t’s no wonder that Waverley Excursions general manager Paul Semple is smiling. Not only has he completed five years at the helm of company that runs PS Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer, but for the first time since he took over in

An engine that has been doing the rounds in the north-west in 2023 is 1913 Aveling & Porter GND No. 8030 KT125 English Princess. The engine has been shown in ‘dust included’ patina'd condition having said to have been stored in a barn since 1977. Eng

The Nantmel Tractor Run will be held on Sunday 7 July, 2024. This popular run around the scenic lanes of Radnorshire is organised by the Tractor Enthusiasts of Nantmel, who have taken the decision to move the event a fortnight earlier due to the orga

It’s good to see that 1900 Burrell 6hp No. 2319 NO1086 single-crank compound, double-geared unsprung traction engine Finem Respice has recently changed hands to a Wiltshire owner who is looking forward to having it out this year. The engine completed

After last year’s Welsh National Tractor Road Run ‘Three Peaks Challenge’ organised by Ian Davies and his team from the Neath Steam and Vintage Show committee in the Neath and Dulas valleys, the 2024 Run will move back to Mid-Wales. The WNTRR 2024 wi

A recent presentation of £1300 was made to Dorothy House Hospice Care at Winsley, Wiltshire by the Chairman and Secretary of The Wessex Stationary Engine Club Ltd. This amount was raised at our Vintage Gathering that was staged at Bradford Leigh, Bra

If you’ve always dreamt of driving a train you’ll want to head straight to the Severn Valley Railway this year to turn your wishes into reality. The popular heritage line has launched a new, enhanced programme of steam and diesel footplate experience

Corgi have released a set of three 1/43 scale Wallace and Gromit vans from the Aardman Animations films, the Austin A35 Van Collection of Cheese Please!, Top Bun (from ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’), and Spick & Spanmobile van (from ‘The Big Fix Up’),

Dear Editor Although pictured and mentioned in Dustin M. Erikson’s book about the firm Mietz & Weiss in 2002, the engine was not tracked and rediscovered until earlier in 2023. When the book was re-read earlier in the year we took notice and begun to

Despite these problems a record crowd of over 10,000 people came from all parts of the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe. The show was held in a wonderful atmosphere, which also saw records broken in the H J Pugh sale, where 82 percent of all tractors

The origins of the rally date back to 1968 when the first rally was staged by Richard Parrott. Today the rally has grown into one of the UK’s largest, with many permanent exhibits kept on the rally site. One such permanent exhibit is the very impress

During a cruise ship stop at La Coruña in North-west Spain, Phil Barnes visited the ‘free to enter’ Museum of Science & Technology (MUNCYT) there where he found a Clayton & Shuttleworth single-cylinder portable engine on display within its unusual gl

The OBR (Ocean Beach Railway) at Dunedin is New Zealand’s oldest heritage railway and these days only has two steam locos in its potentially operational fleet, writes Phil Barnes. There are seven ‘steamers’ on the railway’s stock list; these being Ne

Old Glory’s German correspondent, Busso Hennecke, advises that Rudolf Wolf founded his firm, R. Wolf, in Magdeburg-Buckau in 1862, the year it produced its first portable engine which is now on display in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Consequent up

Born in 1826 into a prominent Wiltshire family of farmers and industrialists, John Fowler was apprenticed to Edgar Gilkes, a fellow Quaker from Nailsworth who had started a business making locomotives for the Stephensons as well as bridges and collie

It is so sad to report the death of David Smith, who was based in the West Midlands. He did so much for the National Traction Engine Trust - he was their vice-chairman and for many years managed the Technical Services Unit, organising many of the sys

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