Steam Roller
Again from the Simcoe County Museum at Midhurst Ontario, this time not a Steam Shovel, but a Steam Roller. The term "Steam Roller" became the description for equipment of this type for many of us, even though they changed their motive power to diesel. You can see the steam wafting out from under this roller. Perhaps because even new ones generate steam when the water used to keep the rollers from sticking, turns to steam on contact with the hot tarmac, we may still think of them as Steam Rollers!
Unfortunately, I neglected to record the year and make of this unit. Probably mid to late 1920s.
Steam Roller
Again from the Simcoe County Museum at Midhurst Ontario, this time not a Steam Shovel, but a Steam Roller. The term "Steam Roller" became the description for equipment of this type for many of us, even though they changed their motive power to diesel. You can see the steam wafting out from under this roller. Perhaps because even new ones generate steam when the water used to keep the rollers from sticking, turns to steam on contact with the hot tarmac, we may still think of them as Steam Rollers!
Unfortunately, I neglected to record the year and make of this unit. Probably mid to late 1920s.