June 2020

Old Glory

Old Glory Britain's best-selling magazine for steam and vintage machinery enthusiasts

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Editor: Colin Tyson Tel: 07943 021585 Email: og.ed@kelsey.co.uk Technical Advisor: Derek Rayner C Eng, MI Mech E Designer: Anita Waters Production: Sue Fixter, Publishing Works Tel: 01507 499082 Email: sue@publishing-works.com Advertisement Mananger:
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Editor's Note
We’re into the third month of lock-down and the inevitable has happened – postponement of the Great Dorset Steam Fair until 2021. It was obvious to everyone that even if lock-down has ended by the August Bank Holiday week, then large scale gatherings
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Whistle Blowing For The NHS
SADLY, after all the winter preparations on Super Sentinel Waggon No 7954 of 1929 [PG 2414] in readiness for the Sentinel Drivers Club’s ‘Around Wales in a Waggon’ 600-mile road run which was sadly cancelled, Malcolm Rogers of Edenbridge, Kent, decid
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David Coupland
The passing of David Coupland of Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire, was announced on March 6. David was well-known for his transport video business, says Colin Tyson. “I remember Dave with his wife, Shirley, coming to the Old Glory offices at Stamford
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‘Virtual’ Online #Twitter-SteamRally Idea Takes Off
AS THE Coronavirus situation continues, so many of our regular steam and vintage events have been curtailed. Our youngest daughter, Charlotte, aged 14, saw the decimation of the events she loved and was looking forward to, and came up with the idea o
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Great Dorset Steam Fair postponed until 2021
DUE TO THE ongoing implications of the Coronavirus outbreak, this year’s 52nd Great Dorset Steam Fair, planned for the August Bank Holiday weekend, has been postponed until next year (Thursday August 26 to Bank Holiday Monday August 30 2021). Steam F
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Aumann Auctions Pre-1930s Re-set
POSSIBLY the ‘hottest’ pre-1930s veteran agricultural sale was scheduled to take place in April at Nokomis, Illinois, USA, but owing to Covid-19 it has been postponed to run from June 12-13. It includes a number of tractors brought over from the UK,
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Mecum ‘Gone Farm’in’ Moves Dates
THE FAMOUS Mecum Auctions Gone Farm’in Spring Classic three-day tractor sale has been moved from April to June 17-20 at Davenport, Iowa, due to the Covid-19 situation, says Peter Love. There are now over 500 tractors and steamers entered, plus lots o
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Graham Sellers Sale - June 20
GRAHAM SELLERS was well-known in the steam community and I had the pleasure of meeting him several times, says Peter Love. An excellent coachworks painter and liner and much more, he enjoyed a fine reputation, as did the engines and equipment in his
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Waverley 2020 Season An ‘Open Question’
WHETHER PS Waverley sails again in 2020 remains an ‘open question’, according to Paul Little, Waverley Excursions General Manager. Not only has the impact of social distancing slowed the fitting out of the ship’s boiler room, where its two, new, Coch
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Eddie’s Engineering Expertise Keeps Maid’s Belgian Connection Alive
THE SON of a Belgian engineer who helped build PS Maid of the Loch, has kept the ship’s Belgian connection alive by repairing and renovating MOTL’s windlass, writes Hugh Dougherty. Eddie Van der Stighelen, who runs Vantech Engineering Services in Eas
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Steam Called In For Commercial Demolition Contract
AR DEMOLITION LTD is a family-run business based in the heart of the Midlands, owned by cousins Richard Dolman and Andrew Thompson. Over the years Richard and Andrew have become well-known in quarries up and down the country for their expertise in de
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THE ROY MILLER FILES The last of London’s steam
Born in Barnet and living his entire life in North London it was inevitable that Roy Miller would take time to document the last working steam in the Capital. The 1960s were to be a decade of immense change for London’s transport networks, particular
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STEAM WAGONS in the RED ROSE COUNTY
The county of Lancashire was very heavily industrialised over several decades and therefore was the home of many businesses associated with activities such as cotton processing and manufacture together with transporting not only the raw materials but
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Rivals To Sentinel’s Railcars And Locomotives
The Sentinel Waggon Works built its first steam rail cars and geared vertical boiler shunting locomotives in 1923. Their immediate success, particularly the two railcars supplied to the Jersey Railway (which substantially lowered running costs and pr
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Enginelines
ON PAGE 87 of OG 363 there is a review of the book Electric Trucks by Kevin Desmond. Your reviewer mentions the Ransomes, Sims & Jeffries built ‘Orwell’ electric vehicles and opines that “it was a shame that none were preserved”. In fact, at least th
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Great War Thornycroft Restored
The story of how Steve Gosling ended up buying his Thornycroft goes back to the mid-1980s when he started his engineering degree at Imperial College, London. Far from home he spent his spare time in the care and operation of the college mascot - a 19
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TRANSATLANTIC BY STEAM Brunel’s PS Great Western and her predecessors
The significance of Brunel’s Great Western steamship which made its maiden voyage to New York on April 8, 1838, is often overlooked. This ship was the very first one to be able to cross the Atlantic from England entirely under steam. Up until that ti
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Bressingham In Bloom
Before this year’s rally season was decimated, the Heritage Steam Gala at Bressingham Steam Museum & Gardens near Diss in Norfolk had become an established annual early season event and one eagerly anticipated by enthusiasts for the mix of narrow gau
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More Steam to Enjoy
It is two years since it was decided to produce an Old Glory ‘special’ in time for the 2018 Great Dorset Steam Fair; Showman’s Engines was an instant success, selling out quickly and having to be reprinted, it is happily available once again. The ide
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Carnival Ice Cream
Although some of their vans are modern Mercedes Sprinter Custom units the fleet also includes some classic vans which date from the 1960s. The owner of the business, Tony Roach, kindly took the time to tell a little about the business and the ‘classi
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Forgotten ferry THE SEVERN PRINCESS
How much do we charge for a hearse, Mr Williams?” asked the ticket seller on the Severn Princess ferry. The smart reply was “Better make it the same as a large van but if there’s an occupant in the rear, charge for an extra person”. Well, business is
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Bulawayo Railway Museum
In today’s modern ‘PC’ world, Cecil Rhodes would have been dubbed as a great white supremist. He was also at the time, one of the richest men in the world and an unashamed hardened Imperialist. His manipulative tactics are legendary in the convoluted
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HARRINGTONS OF HOVE Coach Builders Of Distinction
In 1897 Thomas Harrington started a business building horse-drawn wagonettes, flys and Landaus at his premises in Church Street, Brighton, Sussex. Within three years the original works was expanded and new showrooms were acquired in King Street. For
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A Steam Rotary Snowplow In Action
A VERY special occasion took place in early March in the US to mark the start of the 50th anniversary of the 3ft gauge Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, reports Malcolm Rogers. He visited this splendid line which spans the borders of New Mexico and C
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An Operating French Steam Engine In Portugal
SOUTH from Lisbon, over the Tagus river, the Vale de Milhaços gunpowder factory museum lies hidden in a wood of eucalyptus and pine trees, writes João Luís Sequeira. Nowadays the surrounding area is just a ‘dormitory’ for the Portuguese capital but t
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Tenerife’s Henschel Loco Updated
DURING a holiday in Tenerife in January seeking some ‘winter sun’, Phil Barnes, armed with a copy of OG 315, went to find the German-built Henschel 0-4-0WT loco which languishes on a section of rail over the Avenue de Anaga road tunnel next to the BP
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A Leeds-built Loco Plinthed Near Cadiz
A VISIT to Andalucia in southern Spain and the city of Cadiz provided the opportunity of travelling to the local RENFE station of San Fernando Centro where, within a couple of hundred yards walk of the station building, in the Paseo General Lobo, a L
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An Unusual Roller Find In Negombo, Columbia
WHILST TOURING around Sri Lanka, some 25 miles north of Colombo, the capital of the island country and in Negombo, Don Heron came across a motor roller of some age which fascinated him. What caught his eye in particular was the utilitarian looks of t
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Dave Mickle - RIP
ONE OF the founder members of the Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club (MSTEC) died on April 5, aged 89. He would have been 90 in July. Over the years, Dave Mickle had collected many items of equipment that interested him - and during that time, he’d
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Some London Haulage Contractors
Names such as Rudd, Hickey, Coulson and Ward worked around the city demonstrating their skills and expertise in managing large engines and sometimes not such large engines with heavy loads. Perhaps the best-known London haulage contractors were Hicke
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HMS Medway Queen Memories of Dunkirk
A KEY PART of preparations for the Dunkirk 80th anniversary this year was to publish a collection of first-hand accounts of the operation by those who sailed on HMS Medway Queen. Although the events have been cancelled, the planned book has been publ
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Lokomobilen
Lokomobil is the German name for a portable engine but this name can be found in some translation sources as the term for a traction engine as well. In this case I am only going to discuss the German toy maker’s products which were marketed as ‘Lokom
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The Pandemic
Just a few weeks ago, we were all looking forward to the coming rally season. In that short space of time the world has been plunged into the Covid-19 Pandemic. Traction engines, vintage tractors and all the other aspects that make up our great hobby
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Next Month
NEXT MONTH – JULY ISSUE PLUS: Next month – • Steam Archive – Fysons of Soham • Raynham Day Revisited • The Roy Miller Colour Files • Forncett Industrial Museum • The Abberford Colliery Railway • Yelverton Rally 1973 • Archive and much more • July iss

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