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Fowler traction engine. John Fowler (11 July 1826 – 4 December 1864) was an English agricultural engineer who was a pioneer in the use of steam engines for ploughing and digging drainage channels. His inventions significantly reduced the cost of ploughing farmland, and also enabled the drainage of previously uncultivated land in many parts of ...
John Fowler & Co Engineers of Leathley Road, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England produced traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as well as railway equipment. Fowler also produced the Track Marshall tractor which was a tracked version of the Field Marshall .
A Showman's Engine at the Great Dorset Steam Fair Steam traction heavy haulage Fowler's Monarch of the Road showman's engine. Designed for haulage of heavy loads on public highways, it was common for two or even three to be coupled together to allow heavier loads to be handled.
Steam-powered showman's engine from England. The history of steam road vehicles comprises the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for conventional road use, such as the steam car and steam waggon, or for agricultural or heavy haulage work, such as the traction engine.
Further to Fowler's patent of 1858, in 1877, a Russian, Fyodor Blinov, created a tracked vehicle called "wagon moved on endless rails". [18] It lacked self-propulsion and was pulled by horses. Blinov received a patent for his "wagon" in 1878. From 1881 to 1888 he developed a steam-powered caterpillar-tractor.
Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works Ltd Built steam wagons from 1904 to 1908 [2] Brown & May, Devizes, Wiltshire [3] Charles Burrell & Sons, Thetford, Norfolk – (MERL database entry) Clayton & Shuttleworth, Lincoln – (MERL database entry) Edwin Foden, Sons & Co., Sandbach, Cheshire; Durham and North Yorkshire Steam Cultivation Company Ltd
Britain was a major exporter of steam rollers over the years, with the firm of Aveling and Porter probably being the most famous and the most prolific. Many other traction engine manufacturers built steam rollers, but after Aveling and Porter, the most popular were Marshall, Sons & Co., John Fowler & Co., and Wallis & Steevens.
The John Fowler 7 nominal horse power Steam Road Locomotive has the Serial No 13037. A steam traction engine, it is 3.56 metres (11.7 ft) high, 2.6 metres (8 ft 6 in) wide and 6.1 metres (20 ft) in circumference. The locomotive weights 16.5 tonnes (18.2 short tons) in total.