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UJ2225

7th April 2016 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by steamytuba (Post 360783)

At least it's an engine saved from the scrap man and what ever form it comes out as it will be far better than it was and u cannot get away from its history and yrs as a tractor and I did say arguably commercially even be it an advertising banner it's spent more of its life as a tractor be it crude and awful exactly as my first engine was when I got that which also was an early scrap yard saved engine engines were change all the time from one form or another for commercial use during there working days tractors to showmans showmans to road locos it's all part and parcel of traction engine history this is an historic engine known to many as it is now so what's correct cause of action in a case such as this history is history

To be brutally honest its a historic engine because of how awful it looked after it was chopped.

I will dig some pictures out for you in its true as built form.

Jim

8_10 Brass Cleaner

7th April 2016 10:01 AM

When was this engine converted?

Any engine that survived beyond about 1970 didn't need 'saving from the scrap man'. If one prospective buyer didn't have it, the next may well have.

Does it still have the hole in the hornplate & firebox for the electric motor?

steamytuba

10th April 2016 05:01 PM

Wil have an even bigger hole in the boiler once we get the fire box out lol

buggeroff

10th April 2016 06:34 PM

Is it your roller Alan ??

Chris.

steamytuba

11th April 2016 07:57 AM

my engine yes chris

Comeonoldgirl

11th April 2016 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Aveling 8837 (Post 360335)

Being an E.C.C engine (my area of interest ;) ) ... Royalty No.10344 (NO 5894) 10 ton F type was ordered new by Essex County Council in 1922 and spent most of its working life around Dunmow.

Will the engine be going back to roller form?

So Dan - did this work with mine then. Both were Dunmow rollers. How many did the yard have, cause I thought NO1226 was there too for a while.

Sick of brasso

12th April 2016 07:42 PM

I have a feeling Simon Vickery may have a set of 10 ton aveling front rolls he was selling at one point.

Jamie

Aveling 8837

12th April 2016 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Comeonoldgirl (Post 361034)

So Dan - did this work with mine then. Both were Dunmow rollers. How many did the yard have, cause I thought NO1226 was there too for a while.

Fairly certain yes, NO1224 spent most of its working life based Dunmow. I have NO1226 working in and around Colchester at least until the second world war.

A few of engines seemed to have swapped around during the war (My engine appears to have moved from Chelmsford depot to Newport during this period. My guess would be covering gaps for engines being used for war work.. airfields etc, hopefully will find some more evidence to support this in time.

Also when an engine needed major boiler work it was typically summoned to the Chelmsford central works depot and a replacement engine sent out.

NO5894 was sold off in 1954 with a few other rollers the council deemed 'non economical to repair’.

steamboy

13th April 2016 01:22 AM

Not sure if they are the same but would be worth following up on the slide valve Avelings being converted at the moment if the headstocks, rolls etc would fit your later machine. Be nice to see one of the ECC f types back in steam, with four of them surviving just about.

Glen

steamytuba

19th July 2016 06:10 PM

still looking for any parts if any are available or even kind loans of parts needed for casting and fabricating purposes

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