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

[Fowlers are the best]

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.


Marshall Traction engine 'Emily' owned by S.E. Davies


Aveling Steam Roller owned by S.E Davies - quite a special and unusual roller


Barrows 8NHP portable engine with twin high pressure cylinders owned by S.E. Davies




Fowler D4 convertable roller owned by Darren Wardell of Birmingham


Garrett traction engine 'Lucy' owned by S.E. Davies


Fowler BB1 ploughing engine 'Paul' owned by S.E. Davies


Fowler K7 ploughing engine 'Linkey' owned by Andi & Mark Jones with newly restored living van




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.














Burell traction engine 'Keeling'


Paul Davies's newly restored Fowler ploughing van


What a smashing day out. Nice to talk to a couple of Traction talkers.

Sam.