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cidrontmg:

--- Quote from: John Hill on October 19, 2010, 07:37:01 PM ---Hmmmmm..... the flat rear tyres make me think this might be a road roller.

I think this is a steam roller and quite a big chunk of it is further down the road!

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Another look, and yes, you´re right. I´d also bet it is/was a road roller. See the text (S.KAVANAGH, ROAD CONTRACTOR, SURREY.), which is probably original, and there are also the scraper boards in the back wheels, to scrape the tar + stones off them. That´s a big casting to solder back together...  :bang:  :bang:  :bang:
 :wave:

Bogstandard:
It wouldn't have mattered if he did have brakes, once you get steel sliding on a smooth surface, it is just as though it is on ice. Plus the fact the two trailers were adding to the downslope force.

Many more years of hard work and pocket dipping to get that back into working condition.


Bogs

Stilldrillin:
Here she is/ was. Name of Sarah. Built 1894......

http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/engines/aveling-porter/road-roller/3430/60/

http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/engines/aveling-porter/road-roller/3430/details/

Hope it's not too long 'til she's performing again!  :thumbup:

David D

Brass_Machine:
Hope so, be a shame if they didn't fix her.

Eric

John Rudd:
Fred did have an altercation with a stone built object...I was watching the video of him yesterday and he described how it came about..

Apparantly he was shifting some stone blocks on the back of a trailer and was negotiating a downhill slope at some 40 mile an hour...He decided to stop the steam roller by 'crashing' it into what is now a stone block of somewhat smaller proportion after it had been rebuilt...He went on to say that if his traction engine had been roadworthy it would have saved him a lot of grief......

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