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  2. Traction engine - Wikipedia

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    Fred Dibnah of Bolton, England, was known as a National Institution in Great Britain for the conservation of old traction engines and other steam engines. His television series Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain shows him touring the United Kingdom in his rebuilt 10- ton traction engine.

  3. List of steam fairs - Wikipedia

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    List of UK Steam Fairs; UK Traction engine rallies; Live listings of UK Steam and Vintage Events (Visitors may also submit to this Events Guide) "Old Glory" Online Guide to UK Events including steam rallies and fairs (dynamic list) - from the Old Glory magazine (Old Glory also publishes a 'Free' paper version at the start of each year listing ...

  4. List of traction engine manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    ~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

  5. Steam locomotives of British Railways - Wikipedia

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    Withdrawn locomotives were sent for scrap to various locations around the United Kingdom, either to the railway workshops at Brighton in Sussex, Crewe in Cheshire, Darlington in County Durham, Doncaster in South Yorkshire and Swindon in Wiltshire, etc.; or to scrap metal merchants who had been approved to bid on the contracts – these included ...

  6. List of British Rail modern traction locomotive classes

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    Brush Traction: 1967–71 Kestrel outside Derby Works during testing in 1968. Sold to Soviet Railways 1971; withdrawn 1989, scrapped 1993 Janus: Yorkshire Engine Company: 1956 Demonstration shunter Janus (2787) at Shelton. Sold to Appleby-Frodingham Steel works; scrapped c.1982 Taurus: Yorkshire Engine Company 1961 Stripped 1962, scrapped 1965

  7. Charles Burrell & Sons - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Richard Garrett & Sons - Wikipedia

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    The Garrett Company logo detail on side of lorry cab Garrett showman's engine The Rambler R Garrett & Sons traction engine recorded at Fawley Hill, 18 May 2013. Richard Garrett & Sons was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, steam engines and trolleybuses. Their factory was Leiston Works, in Leiston, Suffolk, England.

  9. History of steam road vehicles - Wikipedia

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    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.