VICTORIAN FOWLER SINGLE STEAMS!
The engine was new in 1873 to Harman Visger of Chiseldon, Wiltshire and left the works on 12th February. It was delivered via the Midland Railway together with a plough, cultivator and anchor, to be used in a single engine system of ploughing. After a while it was decided to purchase a second engine and adopt the two-engine system of ploughing, this required the clip drum to be replaced by a standard drum. The second engine purchased was Fowler No. 2299 and they worked together until being laid up in the 1930s.
In approximately 1944 they were
