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Resolution the 12 ton steam roller puffed its way from New Herrington, near Sunderland, to Newcastle in an amazing six hours on 31st August 1979
These veteran traction engines were waiting with steam up to race at the rally at Lambton Park, Chester-le-Street on 13th July 1957
Tyne and Wear Museums Martin Routledge polishes up a steam powere fire engine on 13th September 1993
Andrew Fogon, left, and David Wright of the Walker Steam Project, with a steam roller outside the Science Museum in Newcastle on 16th October 1989
A vintage Aveling and Banford steam roller on 6th July 1976
Sounds and smell of steam as the entrants prepare their traction engines for the grand paraged at the South Tyne Steam Rally on 11th June 1988
Jack Makepeace, Junior, drives his vehible puffing past obstacles in a race at the Traction Engine Rally in Lambton Park, Chester-le-Street on 15th June 1958
Mr Bill Weeks, complete with top hat, gets ready with a red flag to start the steam traction engine race at Birtley, between Councillor D Smith
A traction engine at the Vintage Car and Steam Engine Show at Corbridge on 12th June 1994
Henry Thompsons Foden Steam Wagon got up a full head of steam at Beamish on 4th September 1983
A whiff of the atmosphere at Corbridge on 11th June 1988 at the annual Steam Traction Engine Rally
Mark Sutherland (glasses) and Mike Greenwell slowly make their way to Corbridge from Ferryhill on 5th June 1994 for the annual Steam Rally on a traction engine
Philip Doran of Newton Aycliffe, with his miniature Burrell traction engine in action on 13th September 1993
The North of England Steam Traction Engine Societys Steam Rally at Chester-le-Street on 12th July 1969. Engines getting steam up to be ready for the afternoon events
This time its different chair for seven-year-old Graham Welsh, of Wallsend, as he takes the driving seat on this one-third scale steam engine
A vintage traction engine getting steamed up on 22nd September 1998
Steam traction engines come out of the pits to take part in the events at the North of England Steam Traction Engine Rally at Thornaby on 11th June 1960
Into the arena come some of the mighty steam giants at the steam traction engine rally near Chester-le-Street on 10th July 1971
Tom Weatherell with his vintage 10-ton steam roller Resolution on 26th March 1978
A vintage 1947 steam roller being restored by Joe Shiel, left, and Malcolm Alexander at Walker Middle Street School on 7th March 1988
The traction engine Repulse making her way to High Haswell Farm, Haswell on 15th October, 1953, where the organiser of the North of England Steam Traction Engine society intends to give Repulse a
A taste of nostalgia as one of the engines that is appearing at the Corbridge Steam Rally trundles over the lovely old stone bridge across the Tyne at Corbridge on 12th June 1988
Redcar Steel Gala on 5th July 1986. Queing up... a popular attraction at the gala proved to be this 1913 Burrel Showmans Engine, owned by Richard Preston of Prestons of Potto near Northallerton
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 atBack 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
