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Elvaston Steam Rally
Is where we spent this morning, with lots of fantastic contraptions. I must here apologise to g8bur for not knowing what the correct designations of any of them are though :-)
This is a picture heavy post and will likely nom your dialup and ask for seconds...
This is a picture heavy post and will likely nom your dialup and ask for seconds...
First some splendid full size engines.
This one had an exceptionally tall smokestack
One of the engines had a pet!
There were lots of miniature engines too, of varying scales.
I particularly wanted a picture of this one, as it's called Harry, like my late Dad. The text on the side reads "Mighty in Strength and Endurance".
A Showman's engine
Many of the engines had lovely decorative emblems, oftern in brass. I saw enough tins of Brasso in use todaythat I have strong suspicions about where most of that company's profits come from these days :-)
This is my favourite - I love owls. Unfortunately, I've forgotten too much Latin to be able to translate the motto. Amusingly the online translation site I tried only got as far as I did, knowing that pro =for and et = and :-)
Random steamroller! :-)
I especially liked the engines that had their work histories appended and this one was one of the best - it was installed in 1905 at a reservoir in Somerset to pump water to six houses. In 1975 it was replaced with an electric pump. Which had to be replaced itself in less than a year....
More pictures from the show in my next picspam post which will be a crosspost to 100_snapshots.
This one had an exceptionally tall smokestack
As a Trek fan I had to get a picture of this one - it's called Enterprise :-)
One of the engines had a pet!
There were lots of miniature engines too, of varying scales.
I particularly wanted a picture of this one, as it's called Harry, like my late Dad. The text on the side reads "Mighty in Strength and Endurance".
A Showman's engine
Many of the engines had lovely decorative emblems, oftern in brass. I saw enough tins of Brasso in use todaythat I have strong suspicions about where most of that company's profits come from these days :-)
This is my favourite - I love owls. Unfortunately, I've forgotten too much Latin to be able to translate the motto. Amusingly the online translation site I tried only got as far as I did, knowing that pro =for and et = and :-)
Random steamroller! :-)
I especially liked the engines that had their work histories appended and this one was one of the best - it was installed in 1905 at a reservoir in Somerset to pump water to six houses. In 1975 it was replaced with an electric pump. Which had to be replaced itself in less than a year....
More pictures from the show in my next picspam post which will be a crosspost to 100_snapshots.
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Great pictures :-)
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The motto 'Pro Rege et Lege' on the brass means (if my 45-year-old Latin schooling serves me well) 'For King and Law'.
Did you hear the Field-Marshall running? Those tractors have a 5.7-litre single-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine, and are sometimes started with a blank cartridge similar to a 12-bore one; this can be quite fun to watch (and hear)!
Great shot of the Amanco 3hp and its pump. The Associated Manufacturers' Company named its engines according to what they considered to be the work that each one could do in terms of human or animal endeavour; thus one of the smaller ones was called a 'Hired Man', and one of the bigger ones a 'Four Mule Team'.
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