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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.
Wallis & Steevens were based in Basingstoke and had their origins in 1856 when Wallis and Haslam set up the North Hants Ironworks - Mr Steevens joined as a partner and by 1869 they had become known as Wallis & Steevens. They made a wide range of agricultural machinery, traction engines and as seen here both steam and diesel engined road rollers. The comapny remained trading in Basingstoke, albeit with a move of premises in the 1960s, until they ceased trading in 1981.
The advert shows both steam and diesel engined road rollers, known as "the Advance", as well as smaller equipment that could be used for road surfaces including liquid tar sprayers and grit spreaders to cover tar with.
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.
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!
Designed by Wiliam F. Batho of Birmingham in 1870. This became the prototype for the world's first mass-produced road roller made by Thomas Aveling, after Batho joined his company.
Lego model based on scale model by Cherry Hill
1907
È la storica vettura che nel 1907, con l'equipaggio composto dal principe Scipione Borghese, il meccanico Ettore Guizzardi e Luigi Bazini, inviato speciale del "Corriere della Sera", vinse in 60 giorni il raid Pechino - Parigi, promosso dal quotidiano francese "Le Matin". La macchina italiana precedette le più vicine avversarie di ben 20 giorni, dopo aver superato insidie naturali e ostacoli di ogni genere disseminati lungo i 16.000 chilometri percorsi. Appositamente attrezzata per la gara, dotata di due enormi serbatoi laterali per la benzina, la ltala(in seguito chiamata Pechino - Parigi) era azionata da un motore di oltre 7 litri di cilindrata con un cambio a 4 marce.
It is the historic car that in 1907, with the crew of Prince Scipione Borghese, the mechanic Ettore Guizzardi and Luigi Bazini, special envoy of "Corriere della Sera", won in 60 days the raid Beijing - Paris, sponsored by the French newspaper " Le Matin ". The Italian car preceded the closest rivals of well 20 days, after overcoming natural obstacles and pitfalls of all kinds scattered along the 16,000 kilometers covered. Specially equipped for the race, with two huge side tanks for gasoline, the ltala (hereinafter called Beijing - Paris) was driven by a motor of more than 7 liters of displacement with a 4-speed transmission.
Rattling up the Station Bank at Beamish Museum is 1925-built 10-ton Fowler road roller No.16615 "Astonisher", UK registered UM 3296.
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Designed by Wiliam F. Batho of Birmingham in 1870. This became the prototype for the world's first mass-produced road roller made by Thomas Aveling, after Batho joined his company.
Lego model based on scale model by Cherry Hill
Ex Eddison fleet No. 79 - 1894 built Aveling & Porter roller No. 3319 (HR 6013) at Abbey pumping station
John Allen and Sons Steam Roller (1898) Output 5NHP
Engine Number 8111
Class D2
Type Single Cylinder
Registration Number BW 4798 (Oxfordshire)
Assembled by John Allen, Oxford
(One of three such engines, only survivor) based on a Fowler
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Shot 22.07.2018 at the Steam Fair, Barton Gate, Barton under Needwood, Staffordshire Ref 135-310
This Babcock & Wilcox six ton road roller was built in 1926. The firm of Babcock & Wilcox was a large industrial engineering company with many interests. The company took over and subsequently closed or sold off many firms. The main business was process plant and boilers. Today as Babcock International, the successor to the original Babcock and Wilcox Company is a company engaged in the design, engineering, manufacture, service and construction of power generation and pollution control systems and equipment for utilities and industries. The Parent group is an American corporation, with a British arm, and several other overseas subsidiaries.
Behind is a Romany caravan or vardo (also known as living wagon, van, and caravan) which was a traditional horse-drawn wagon used by British Romanichal Travellers as their home. The vehicle is typically highly decorated, intricately carved, brightly painted, and even gilded. The Romanichal Traveller (Gypsy) tradition of the vardo is seen as a high cultural point of both artistic design and a masterpiece of woodcrafter's art. The heyday of the caravan lasted for roughly 70 years, from the mid-1800s through the first two decades of the twentieth century. Not used for year-round living today, they are shown at the cultural gatherings held throughout the year, the best known of which is Appleby Horse Fair.
This exhibit was in Bicton Countryside Museum which is located within the 63 acre (25.5ha) of the world famous Bicton Park Botanical Gardens. The museum’s origins date from the mid 1950’s when post-war Britain was undergoing immense social, economic and industrial change. Even in rural Devon the effects were being felt, particularly in agriculture, where mechanisation and the need for greater productivity and efficiency was threatening an end to horse power and manual labour.
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Rumbling alongside the tramway tracks at Beamish Museum on a very wet day is Robey tandem road roller No.41593 of 1924, UK registered FE 6255.
Robey & Co. Ltd. was established in 1849 and based in Lincoln (UK). The company finally ceased trading as recently as 1988, although production of steam road vehicles had ceased many years before that.
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Every young blood’s dream in post-war austerity England was to own a two-seater sports car preferably a red MG with wire wheels, fold-flat screen, noisy exhaust note and a young lady in the passenger seat!
Sadly not many of us could afford such luxury but here a lucky devil races along a typical winding country road at a heady 60mph in a pre-war MG TA and passes an ancient steam roller and road menders crew trailer, the chances of him meeting another vehicle are slim for in those halcyon days the roads in England were practically deserted.
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A Fowler Steam Road Roller simmers whilst the driver has gone for a sandwich.
1:76 Scale, OO gauge diorama, home made.
Road Roller is by Oxford Diecast. One of their new range of traction engine/roadroller/showmans engine range.
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!
An advert from the 1933 edition of the Scottish Municipal Annual, a compendium that lists the various local government authorities and their jurisdictions, along with information pertaining to 'municipal' officials, services and interests. The Annual seems to have run from the late 1920s into the 1960s.
This advert, issued by the Glasgow concern of Fleming & Company, shows a fine period illustration showing road construction and equipment as would have been in use in the early 1930s. Pneumatic picks, with a compressor, can be seen, along with a stone crusher. On the finished road various methods of coating or surfacing can be seen with road rollers, an automated tar spray and surfacer along with the old tar 'boiler', spray and hand spreading of chippings. Fleming's seem to have had an interest in Bi-Tarco.
What is slightly more amazing is that, after 130 years, Fleming's are still in business in Glasgow now dealing in traffic management and road cones.
Marshall Steam Roller (1926) Output 5 NHP
Engine Number 81427
Class S
Type Single Cylinder
Name Anne
Registration Number PY 6079 (North Riding of Yorkshire)
MARSHALL+ Sons ALBUM
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Buily in 1926 by Marshall, Sons and Co of Britania Iron Works, Gainsborough,
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Shot 22.07.2018 at the Steam Fair, Barton Gate, Barton under Needwood, Staffordshire Ref 135-324
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 October 2023 steam event.
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Steaming enthusiastically up the steep Colliery Bank at Beamish Museum is 1925-built Aveling & Porter D-Class steam road roller No.11145 "Ayesha", an 8-tonner, UK registered TN 216.
Bringing up the rear is a 1922-built former 22cwt Ford Model-T Van, UK registered BF 4165. Since arriving at Beamish Museum in 2009, the van body has been removed and it has been converted to it's current state as a Crewe Tractor with WW1 UK military livery. These conversions were originally used by the British army on trench tramways during WW1. They were designed to be easily converted from road to rail use, and back again, as required.
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A rare example of a type of steam road roller which was never made in great numbers, and now very few survive. Here, this example is trundling through the roads of Beamish Museum.
The engine is an Armstrong Whitworth 12-ton steam road roller, works No.11 "Albert" of 1923, registered PT 1034, and originally used by Bishop Auckland Urban District Council in NE England.
The engine was at Beamish for the Transport Gala event of September 2022.
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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 Road Roller (1946)
Number 746
Name Old Nick
Registration Number BTL 810 (Lincolnshire for Kesteven)
Livery Kings Lynn Dock and Railway Company
Type R
Single Cylinder
Output 4 NHP
AVELING BARFORD + AVELING PORTER ALBUM
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Shot 28.05.2022 at Smallwood Steam Rally. Cheshire REF 160-007
Frederick Dibnah, MBE (28 April 1938 – 6 November 2004) was an English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering. Fred's Roller, Hut and Landrover. Cheshire Steam Show, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire.
Wallis + Steevens 10 ton Advance Road Roller (1957)
Name Tick Tock
Registration Number POR 997 (Basingstoke)
Wallis + Steevens Set
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Produced by Wallis and Steevens of Basingstoke
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Shot 29.08.2016 at Shrewesbury Steam Rally, Onslow Park, Shrewesbury REF 119-608
John Fowler DNB ALNNIE steam roller SA9876 of 1925 with Fowler K7 steam ploughing engine THE STEAM SAPPER BF9396 of 1914 alonngside.
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