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A steamroller (or steam roller) is a form of road roller – a type of heavy construction machinery used for leveling surfaces, such as roads or airfields – that is powered by a steam engine. The leveling/flattening action is achieved through a combination of the size and weight of the vehicle and the rolls : the smooth wheels and the large ...
The Traction Engine Register records the details of traction engines, steam road rollers, steam wagons, steam fire engines and portable engines that are known to survive in the United Kingdom and Irish Republic. It recorded 2,851 self moving engines and wagons, 687 portable engines (non-self moving), 160 steam fire engines existing in 2016.
~American Engine Co. American-Abell Engine and Thresher Company, Toronto, Ontario [8] Amongst other models, built three-wheelers with a single wheel mounted on a fork perch bracket beneath the smokebox. [9] Ames Iron Works ~Atlas Engine Works; Aultman Co. Aultman-Taylor Machinery Co. Avery Power Machinery Co., Peoria, Illinois; A.D. Baker Company
Single-cylinder steam rollers were generally used for base compaction and run with high engine revs with low gearing to promote bounce and vibration from the crankshaft through to the rolls in much the same way as a vibrating roller. The double cylinder or compound steam rollers became popular from around 1910 onwards and were used mainly for ...
Diamond Queen traction engine, manufactured by Charles Burrell & Sons, 1897. Charles Burrell built the company's first steam engine in 1848. Initially like most other manufacturers they built portable engines but they gradually moved into self-moving agricultural engines and later engines built specifically for road transport.
Although concentrating on steam rollers (for which there was an expanding market), the company also made traction engines, ploughing engines, steam wagons and tramway locomotives. Other agricultural products were contracted out. [8] In the early twentieth century Aveling & Porter were supplying about 70% of the British market for road rollers. [8]
By 1884, they had become one of the largest producers of steam traction engines, plus building industrial, railroad and agricultural equipment. [2] By 1909, the 21 acre plant had produced 18,000 farm, traction and stationary engines, plus 22,000 threshing machines. They also made sawmills, pneumatic stackers, feeders and road rollers. [3]
The company rapidly developed a range of traction engines, steam rollers, ploughing engines, agricultural implements and stationary engines. One of their forgotten achievements is the invention, British Patent 763 of 1880, of the traction-centre engine, for driving steam-powered fairground roundabouts.