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Featured at the Bedford Steam & Country Fayre in Turvey are these four heavy road rollers fired up ready for action!
Left to right these four heavyweights are:
Zettelmeyer Road Roller - Weldt.
14 tons, built 1926, Reg No BF8138.
Rushton & Hornsby Road Roller - Moonlight Magic.
10 tons, built 1929, Reg No 5657
Rushton & Hornsby Road Roller
Reg No NR5056
Rushton & Hornsby Road Roller
12 tons, built 1921, Reg No CJ 4853
Steaming up the station incline onto Beamish Museum town is 1925-built 10-ton Fowler road roller 16615 "Astonisher", registered UM 3296.
The engine was at Beamish as part of the Steam Event of April 2022.
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Various steam engines still sheeted up early Saturday morning @ Welland Steam Rally 2017.
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I'm not 100% happy with the aft corners of the cabin. Ideally, the rear line on the sides would be parallel to the door and windows in the rear. I may fiddle with this a bit more in coming weeks.
Trundling along at it's usual gentle pace is Robey tandem road roller 41593 of 1924, registered FE 6255.
The engine was at Beamish as part of the Power from the Past event of October 2019.
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An Aveling & Porter road roller trundels along the road at Great Bowden during a Timeline Events photo shoot.
A page from a large trade handbook from c1932/33 that is difficult to handle and photograph so apologies for angles and flare. The book describes a wide range of machinery and tools used on road building and construction projects as well as maintenance equipment and street furniture.
Some well known names here in the world of road building and maintenance machinery and companies that, in 1932, were undergoing changes in ownership. The advert notes "Associated with AGE Ltd." and this stood for a holding company Agricultural & General Engineering formed in 1919 and that formed an umbrella for a number of similar concerns making road, construction and agriculatural machinery and that failed in 1932.
Aveling & Porter was a long established company, formed in Rochester, Kent, in the mid-Victorian period and who, through the founder Thomas Aveling, helped pioneer the use of steam locomotion in agricultural equipment especially through the construction of steam traction equipment and road rollers.
Barford & Perkins had started in business in 1840, based in Peterbrough, and under AGE ownership the business was transferred into Aveling & Porter's Rochester works were the 'marque' was used for 'rollers that utilised petrol or diesel engines so as to be complimentary to the steam driver Aveling models. In the collapse of AGE both companies were saved, with it appears some financial support from other industry players such as Listers, Ransom, Sims & Jefferies and Ruston & Hornsby. The new company moved to Grantham and by 1934 became known as Aveling-Barford. In 1967 they were acquired by British Leyland and in 1988 closed down.
As can be seen Aveling & Porter, and latetrly Aveling-Barford, used part of the Kent coat of arms as their badge or logo - "Invicta".
The second edition of the vast publication the "Municipal and Road Engineers' Standard Catalogue, 1929 - 1932" contains many hundreds of pages of adverts showing plant, appliances and supplies across a wide range of 'municipal' engineering such as road construction, lighting, refuse disposal, water supplies and sewerage and park equipment.
A rare excursion out at Beamish Museum for this road roller, which is still under restoration by its owners, although clearly now reaching completion.
The vehicle is 1904-built Aveling & Porter R6-type road roller 5499, registered BS 8711.
The engine is currently resident at Beamish, although still privately owned, and has been undergoing extensive restoration work by its owners for the past year.
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Finally after saying for 2 years I would be building one of these I got to it yesterday!
Another vehicle now finished for the Corfe Castle display, just need to alter the chimney stack once I get hold of the part needed in black.
Based on an Aveling & Porter, I'm pretty happy with the result.....really want to paint those spokes green though!
Aveling Barford DX 8 Tonne Diesel Road Roller DAB 218
Seen at the 2022 Kettering Vintage Rally & Steam Fayre
Fiona and I recently went off the island for a trip down the road to Camas Luinie. It's a road end we had driven past many times without ever thinking it would be worth a visit. How wrong we were. The drive along Loch Long, even in horrible drizzly weather, was stunning. We will definitely be back again in better conditions. The gloomy weather meant I took very few photos but at the very end of the road at Camas Luinie I came across this abandoned road roller in the undergrowth and thought it worthy of a couple of shots.
The road roller is actually an American machine. It is a Huber, built in Marion, Ohio. How it came to be abandoned in the back of beyond is a mystery.
PS I have just noticed that it has a Caterpillar engine.
Invicta Steam Road Roller produced by Aveling & Porter of Strood, on the Medway river in Kent.
The Latin motto Invicta (Unconquered) and the prancing horse have long been symbols of the county Kent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invicta_%28motto%29
- image © Phil Brandon Hunter - www.philbhu.com - P8050309A
"Susie" is the long-held name for this rather fine 1928 Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke 'Simplicity' road roller. She was built as works number 7940 the design was intended to make the roller as easy to operate as possible with the sloping boiler ensuring the tubes were water covered at all times to avoid the possibilty of boiler explosion. The picture was taken at the May 1967 Birmingham Science museum steam rally in Newhall Street.
The background is a lovely period piece. Three earnest looking University students photograph the engines with fixed lens 35mm cameras, A young family with a state-of-the-art folding pram casually watch, the baby is 51 now. In Water Street is a brand new gas lamp replacement, a Revo 'Precinct' street light in shiny new cream and maroon paint, the cars are a very new Ford Anglia deluxe and a late Morris Minor 1000.
Peter Shoesmith.
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse; all rights reserved
Somewhere in the deep forests of Ikaria, this metal beast, an enchanted beauty bound by the spell of a witch (?), is waiting for/dreaming of some prince on a white horse to recognize it and kiss it and turn it into a beautiful light-weight frog. Only the first step of the whole process, of course.
Island of Ikaria, Greece. (PMZ8967)
Finally after saying for 2 years I would be building one of these I got to it yesterday!
Another vehicle now finished for the Corfe Castle display, just need to alter the chimney stack once I get hold of the part needed in black.
Based on an Aveling & Porter, I'm pretty happy with the result.....really want to paint those spokes green though!
30.6.2024.
1926 built Babcock & Wilcox Road Roller 'Toby' @ the Sheffield Steam Fair.
Built by Clayton & Shuttleworth of Lincoln - who were taken over by Marshall's of Gainsborough in 1929.
A very unlikely pairing, standing in the colliery yard at Beamish Museum on a very wet day.
On the left, complete with living van, is 1925-built Aveling & Porter D-Class road roller 11145 "Ayesha", registered TN 216.
To the right of it is a rare and mostly original 1919 Crossley 25/30 Royal Flying Corps (RFC) Tender. This example, registered BK 3298, includes engine No.13364 and chassis No.12072. Although it is described as an RFC vehicle, the fact that the Royal Air Force (RAF) came into existence in 1918 suggests that this may always have been an RAF vehicle.
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Iveco Cargo Tipper
New - May 2002
Loaded with a Road Roller
Pictured on the A29 Tobermore Road, Maghera County Londonderry
Steaming out of Pockerley Waggonway in Beamish Museum is Aveling & Porter road roller No.10707 "Pegasus" of 1923, UK registered PT 1585.
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1893 Aveling & Porter Steam Roller No 3319. Class
R10.
10 tons single cylinder side valve.
Withdrawn in 1956 after 63 years service with Eddison Plant Ltd.
1856 Thomas Aveling produced the first steam plough.
1858 Aveling acquired premises in High Street, Rochester.
1860 At the Smithfield Show, Thomas Aveling of Rochester exhibits an 8 hp patent locomotive engine invented by himself and made by Clayton and Shuttleworth.]
1861 Employing 82 men and 14 boys.
1861 Started building steam engines to his own design.
1861 Patent for improvements to locomotive engines
1861 The main works were concentrated at Strood.
1862 Needing capital to expand, Richard Porter joined the company and the name changed to Aveling and Porter.
1862 May. At the Bath and West Society Show, Aveling and Porter showed a traction engine that they had driven 190 miles from Rochester to Bath in under 48 hours.
1862 June. At the International Show of the Agricultural Society they showed an agricultural locomotive engine for threshing, ploughing and general traction purposes.
1863 Patent for improvements in the construction of traction engines to Thomas Aveling of Rochester
1864 Produced their first engine to run on rails and continued in this market until 1926.
1865 They developed a steam engine and produced more of the machines than all the other British manufacturers combined.
1865 Their steam roller was tested in Hyde Park, London, Military Road, Chatham and at Star Hill in Rochester, Kent and was a success. Aveling and Porter steam rollers were exported to Europe and as far afield as India and the USA.
It was in 1865 that Aveling after experimenting with one of his large, road locomotive engines, decided to construct a machine expressly for rolling.
1867 Produced the first steam roller weighing 30 tons for the Liverpool Corporation.
871 Employed 300 men and boys [10]
1871 Aveling & Porter were requested by the Government to construct a light traction engine designed for hauling siege guns. These machines were named "Sappers"
1876 The engine to which the Royal Agricultural Society's First Prize was awarded was one of Aveling and Porter's 10-horse power Locomotives, 1876 Exhibitor at the Royal Agricultural Show at Birmingham with agricultural self-propelling engines of 4, 6, 8 and 10 hp. Also a 12 hp ploughing engine and a 10-ton roller.
1877 Exhibitor at the 1877 Royal Agricultural Show.
1878 Patent for improvements in road locomotive engines. Thomas Aveling of Rochester.
1881 Employing 260 men and 61 boys.
1882 Thomas Aveling died and was succeeded by his son Thomas Lake Aveling.
1889 Paris Exhibition. Electric Lighting Traction Engine. Illustrated.
1895 Employed 1,000 workers. Thomas Lake Aveling was to serve as chairman and managing director until he retired in 1928.
1899 Exhibited at the 1899 Royal Agricultural Show with a steam road roller fitted with Morrison's Patent Scarifier.
1900 Compound road locomotive and wagons for South Africa.
1911 Smithfield Club Show. Exhibited a road locomotive, steam motor tractor and a ploughing engine.
1914 Listed specialities: steam road rollers, tractors, steam wagons, road locomotives, traction engines, steam ploughing tackles, motor rollers lorries, "Morrison" scarifier for the roads.
After the First World War, Aveling and Archibald Maconochie, a friend and neighbour in Kent, promoted the formation of Agricultural and General Engineers.
1919 Aveling and Porter joined the Agricultural and General Engineers combine. Production of Aveling and Porter steam wagons was transferred to Richard Garrett and Sons.
1920 Showed steam road rollers, tractors and ploughing engines at the Darlington Agricultural
1932 AGE went into receivership and Aveling and Porter acquired the assets of of Barford and Perkins
1934 They changed their name to Aveling-Barford
1937 Became a public company to raise £320,000 with Edward James Barford, William Geoffrey Barford and George Ruston Sharpley as directors.
After World War II the company continued to make motor and steam rollers as well as expanding into other construction equipment. Aveling Barford is now part of the Thomson group of companies, which also includes Moxy articulated dump trucks.
The company produced around 12,200 steam powered vehicles and there are around 600 preserved.