Engine Collection (page 3)

This traction engine steam roller is taking people for a ride in a trailer on 19th May 1973

Small is beautifull... Richard Doran (left) makes final adjustments to his miniature traction engine with the help of mechanic Ray Stephens, at Meadowfield Vintage Rally on 19th June 1988

A little girl watching a fairground orgon at the Vintage Car and Steam Engine show at Corbridge on 12th June 1994

Most drivers prefer to wait for the weekend before letting off steam. But not Malcolm Bell. For Malcolm spends the whole week getting all steamed up by driving one of the North-Easts last working

Tractors line up at the Vintage Car and Steam Engine Show at Corbridge on 12th June 1994

Full steam ahead for a traction engine rally, are Mr H Beethorpe and his partner in Princess Royal on 13th June 1958

A steam roller lying derelict in Longbenton, Newcastle on 20th February 1966

One of the Northumberland County Councils fleet of Steam Rollers on 16th February 1976

A Fowler traction engine on 15th June 1979 being taken through its paces by Mr Hubert Nixon, President of the South tyne Traction Engine Society on a field at Anick Grange Farm near Hexham

The traction engine Dreadnaught being use to power a fairground organ on 10th June 1966

Auctioneers receptionist Janice Coulthard admires some of the model steam and traction engines on 26th July 1985, made by former pit electrician and lifelong modelmaker Ron Ibbertson

There was a ceremonial tear-up of L-plates on 3rd October 1967 when Mr John Arnott Brown passed his driving test on a 15-ton steam roller

A steam roller at County Technical College in Ashington on 10th March 1965

The traction engine Providence on 19th August 1965

Richard Doran steaming ahead on his miniature traction engine at Durhams Vintage Rally on 20th June 1988

Full steam ahead as this engine is put in trim for the North of England Steam Traction Societys rally at Chester-le-Street on 6th July 1968

The traction engine The Iron Maiden at Sunderland on 19th August 1992

A school project really got rolling in Newcastle on 28th November 1986. With Paul Hilditch of Walker School at the wheel as (left to right) Sapper Henry Leadbitter, Sgt

William Marshall, division inspector for weights and measure, Hexham gives George Ryerley, of Walton Hall, Stamfordham an envelope with the weight of his steam roller Highland Lass on 2nd June 1972

Back on the tracks this replica of the Rocket which attended the Rainhill trilas at
Back on the tracks.. this replica of the Rocket which attended the Rainhill trilas at Manchester, and has just returned from America

Some old steam rollers lying in wait to be renovated on 4th February 1961

Company director Mr Charles Glenn has achieved his lifelong ambition - he has bought and 11-ton traction engine on 24th March 1964

The Busy Bee, with his owner, Dr J L Middlemiss, of Bellingham at the controls, takes the road for Lambton Park, Chester-le-Street, on 3rd July 1957 where a Traction Engine Rally is being held

Steam and smoke fill the air at the Whitley Bay Steam Engine Rally on 14th August 1982

George Byerley on 7th May 1986 with his Marshall twin cylinder portable steam engine which is driving a Ransomes heavy duty threshing machine which in turn is driving a Jones wire bailer

Margaret Younger, of Birtley, shows her skill at the wheel at a display held by the North of England Steam Traction Engine Society at Dunkirk Farm, Birtley, on 9th June 1962

Traction engine mad John Bainbridge who is hoping to restore this steam engine to its full glory on 22nd May 1995

To a casual passer-by a small area off the village square in Newbottle, County Durham, looks like a steam rollers graveyard on 4th February 1964

The Busy Bee Traction Engine on 3rd July 1957 on its way to Lambton Park, Chester-le-Street where a Traction Engine Rally is being held

Old Roly is dying, deserted and derelict and lies rusting away at the Church Walk play park in Morpeth on 24th July 1980. Now safety experts at Castle Morpeth Council say the old boy is in such bad

A little boy trying our a miniature tractor on show among the traction engines at the Vintage Car and Steam Engine Show at Corbridge on 12th June 1994

Steam Roller Brenda (1920 vintage) with the two men who have given her a new lease of life on 17th February 1962

Through the murk and lattice work roof, a pyramid of light shafts surround a London & North Western Railway Claughton class 4-6-0 No

An engineer checks the pistons of the Gipsy Six engine during the construction of the Miles 3 Falcon aircraft at the Philips and Powis factory at Woodley Aerodrome, Reading 2nd April 1934

Series of images for Daily Herald Feature flight to Australia. 26th June 1938 Imperial Airways staff check the Bristol Pegasus Xc poppet valve radial engines of the Shorts C Class Empire Flying Boat

At journeys end for London commuters were sights like this at Liverpool Street, more a cathedral of smog than steam in the 1950s. Trains wait by the platforms at Liverpool Street Station

The A1 class locomotive number 4472, "Flying Scotsman"
The A1 class locomotive number 4472, " Flying Scotsman" seen here leaving Kings Cross station for the first ever " non-stop" Flying Scotsman service for Edinburgh on the May 1

Engineer check the Gipsy Six engine during the construction of the Miles 3 Falcon aircraft at the Philips and Powis factory at Woodley Aerodrome, Reading 2nd April 1934

Unveiling of the birthplace of Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the turbojet engine, He was born in a terraced house in Newcombe Road, Earlsdon, Coventry, on 1 June 1907. June 1982

A goods train chuffing past the Black Lion at Consall Forge near Leek, February 1965

The London Midland and Scottish Jubilee Class steam locomotive 5740 Munster being prepared by workers for a night run. 2nd April 1940

Interior view of Birmingham New Street station, 1927

The Concorde Olympus engine in the sea level test bed at Bristol. 30th March 1967

BAC-1-11undergoing engine tests at Hurn Airport in Bournemouth. 6th August 1963

BAC-1-11 undergoing engine tests at Hurn Airport in Bournemouth. 6th August 1963

Holidaymakers on the platform at Snow Hill Station in Birmingham awaiting the arrival of the " Cornishman" a British Railways express passenger train to Penzance, Cornwall. 17th April 1954

A workman cutting up an old engine at a breakers yard at North Blyth on 5th January 1965

A snowplough waiting to be attached to an engine in the sheds on 9th September 1972

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