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Old 12th January 2015, 04:46 AM
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The Highlands Steam and Vintage Fair is on again. Saturday 7th February 2015 is the day to see the local road engines circulating around the town and we hope to have at least 3 portables busy doing what they do best!
Displays will include the usual suspects of cars, trucks, tractors and stationary engines. We will also have at least two Matilda tanks and a military display by the Lithgow Living History Group. Quality market stalls and crafts displays including a blacksmith and potter.
If you are in the area, call in and have a look! Contact Jim on Oz mobile 0409288132.
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Old 17th January 2015, 11:19 PM
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Hmmm, currently traveling through Australia as a visiting POM, this could well line up with the time we are around that area...
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Old 18th January 2015, 03:40 AM
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Will hopefully be down there with the Maitland crew, will be good to catch up. See you then mate.
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Old 27th January 2015, 07:45 PM
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Something different for the fair this year. Ken Ainsworth's recent restoration of an Iroquois tandem roller. I have photos of this engine working around Sydney and it is supposed to be one of the rollers used when laying bitumen on the new Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Old 28th January 2015, 12:36 AM
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There were three of these Iroquois rollers imported from Barber Asphalt by Neuchâtel Asphalt the contractors who laid the paving across the Sydney Harbour Bridge during its construction. Two eight ton for the roadway and one five ton for the foot path along the side of the bridge. This is the five ton roller and one of the eight ton rollers is about to be dismantled for restoration very soon. The second eight ton roller has vanished completely. Only three of these rollers were imported into Australia.

The first photo is of one of the eight ton rollers working on the northern approaches to the bridge just below North Sydney Station. The second picture is one of the eight ton rollers at work in Sydney after the bridge was completed.
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Old 14th February 2015, 08:55 AM
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Shame I missed this, just arrived in Port Macquarie, a week late!
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Old 15th February 2015, 07:29 PM
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a quick snap of Saturday's street parade.

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