Steam Plough Club AGM - Moring visit to S.E Davis & Son Ltd
 

The 2008 AGM of the Steam Plough Club took place on 5th April 2008. There was a morning visit to the yard of S.E. Davis & Son Ltd of Astwood Bank in Redditch. They have an ENORMOUS collection of tackle to include many crawler tractors, diggers, bulldozers and excavators. Also, there were a large number of steam engines, some of which were in steam that were able to be viewed.

The HUGE blade of the Euclid crawler which worked for the National Coal board. The small Fowler crawler gives some impression of its size.
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Marshall Traction engine 'Emily' owned by S.E. Davies
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Aveling Steam Roller owned by S.E Davies - quite a special and unusual roller
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Barrows 8NHP portable engine with twin high pressure cylinders owned by S.E. Davies
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Fowler D4 convertable roller owned by Darren Wardell of Birmingham
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Garrett traction engine 'Lucy' owned by S.E. Davies
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Fowler BB1 ploughing engine 'Paul' owned by S.E. Davies
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Fowler K7 ploughing engine 'Linkey' owned by Andi & Mark Jones with newly restored living van
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John Colins's Fowler BB1 ploughing engine was hauling a converted Fowler mole plough via a pulley block system that burried a plastic drain pipe and systematically backfilled the trench with gravel.
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Burell traction engine 'Keeling'
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Paul Davies's newly restored Fowler ploughing van
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What a smashing day out. Nice to talk to a couple of Traction talkers.

Sam.

You even got a picture of me!

David.

lol, so I did!

Sam.

what the foden u can see in the background in the second picture ?

Foden 13832, also part of the SE Davis collection.

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David.

I hope you are wearing your pink t shirt under your coat :D

lol - somewhere under all the layers I had one on, it was freezing!

David.

Steam Scenes now features a selection of pictures taken at this event:

• Steam Plough Club AGM 2008 Pictures

Engines Appearing:

• Aveling & Porter Road Roller 11115
• Aveling & Porter Road Roller 14150
• Barrows & Co Portable Engine 2420
• Burrell Traction Engine 3068
• Burrell Traction Engine 3121
• Foden Tractor 13832
• Fowler Ploughing Engine 14257
• Fowler Ploughing Engine 15142
• Fowler Ploughing Engine 15143
• Fowler Road Roller 15902
• Garrett Traction Engine 23992
• Marshall Traction Engine 78667

Thanks to SE Davis and SPC for their kind hospitality.

David.

Few more pictures:

Burrell Single cylinder traction engnie 'Victory'
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Foden steam waggon 13832
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Aveling roller 11115
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Miniature Foden steam waggon
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One of the sheds of the Daviess' tackle
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So you found that other shed David!

Sam.

Yes thanks, good job you said! Almost as many sheds as engines.

David.