Horsing around in the Goods Yard 20210916--407
A scene in Rowley station goods yard at Beamish Museum, involving a horse-drawn Pantechnicon in the livery of Edward Hoult and a War Department Ford Model T. [Pole, 3/6 sections (~4m)]
The horse-drawn Pantechnicon dates from 1890, and is similar to the type of vehicle used by Edward Hoult when he started his business in 1920. This vehicle was purchased in 1979 by Fred Hoult (then Hoults Group Managing Director) in London, and it was restored by the company's bodyshop in Newcastle, and subsequently donated to Beamish Museum.
The military vehicle is a Ford Model T, built in 1922 and imported from the USA (hence it has left-hand drive). At some point it had been fitted with a van body, and it was in this guise it arrived at Beamish. When it was due an overhaul, it was decided to convert it to a "Crewe Tractor". These were Ford Model T vehicles built at Trafford Park (Manchester) and adapted by the LNWR at Crewe Works in 1916-17 for use in northern France and Belgium. They could be converted, allegedly in an hour, from road vehicles to rail vehicles to run on the lightly-laid two-foot gauge trench tramways. They did, however, remain numbered as part of the War Department motor transport pool rather than joining the War Department Light Railway fleet. For more information, see the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFhSNI0Cx4o.
Using the pole allowed more of the main station building to be visible, as well stop the crane on the goods dock growing out of the back of the black horse! Unfortunately, my preferred version of this view - with two re-enactors stood by the car rather than on the goods dock by the crane, and with the black NER warning sign between the gate post and the lamppost rather than behind the latter, had some normal visitors on the platform which were harder to remove than I'd hoped (although I have now done that satisfactorily, and will upload it in due course).
Taken during a Timeline Events / David Williams photo charter.
To see my non-transport pictures, visit www.flickr.com/photos/137275498@N03/.
Horsing around in the Goods Yard 20210916--407
A scene in Rowley station goods yard at Beamish Museum, involving a horse-drawn Pantechnicon in the livery of Edward Hoult and a War Department Ford Model T. [Pole, 3/6 sections (~4m)]
The horse-drawn Pantechnicon dates from 1890, and is similar to the type of vehicle used by Edward Hoult when he started his business in 1920. This vehicle was purchased in 1979 by Fred Hoult (then Hoults Group Managing Director) in London, and it was restored by the company's bodyshop in Newcastle, and subsequently donated to Beamish Museum.
The military vehicle is a Ford Model T, built in 1922 and imported from the USA (hence it has left-hand drive). At some point it had been fitted with a van body, and it was in this guise it arrived at Beamish. When it was due an overhaul, it was decided to convert it to a "Crewe Tractor". These were Ford Model T vehicles built at Trafford Park (Manchester) and adapted by the LNWR at Crewe Works in 1916-17 for use in northern France and Belgium. They could be converted, allegedly in an hour, from road vehicles to rail vehicles to run on the lightly-laid two-foot gauge trench tramways. They did, however, remain numbered as part of the War Department motor transport pool rather than joining the War Department Light Railway fleet. For more information, see the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFhSNI0Cx4o.
Using the pole allowed more of the main station building to be visible, as well stop the crane on the goods dock growing out of the back of the black horse! Unfortunately, my preferred version of this view - with two re-enactors stood by the car rather than on the goods dock by the crane, and with the black NER warning sign between the gate post and the lamppost rather than behind the latter, had some normal visitors on the platform which were harder to remove than I'd hoped (although I have now done that satisfactorily, and will upload it in due course).
Taken during a Timeline Events / David Williams photo charter.
To see my non-transport pictures, visit www.flickr.com/photos/137275498@N03/.