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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.
Geiser Manufacturing, makers of the Peerless line of steam tractors, later bought out by Emerson-Brantingham ~George W. Morris ~George Page & Co. George White & Sons Co. Ltd., London and Brandon, Canada. Greyhound, Banting Mfg. Co. Groton, Charles Perrige & Co. ~Hagerstown Steam Engine & Machine Co. ~Harrisburg Car Mfg. Co. Harrison Machine ...
The prototype steam tractor was a single-cylinder design but in 1906 a compound-cylinder version was produced, and this proved to be by far the most popular version with customers. [12] In 1908 the RAC organised a trial of competing makers' steam tractors to ascertain the best. Charles Burrell & Sons entered engine number 2932, a standard ...
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.
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.
Traction engine with living van Steam road roller with its living van (1992) Living van with pneumatic tyres. A living van is a portable caravan for temporary use of traveling work crews, especially of early steam engines. [1]