Trevithick Day - 27 April 2013
 

A selection of my pics, I will post more on Steam Scenes when I get home:

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Living in Cornwall sends you a bit mad, as this pair will testify:

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Gladiator nearing home, such a sight to see her in full flight on the road:

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Thanks to the event organisers and those who brought engines. I will have a more extensive collection of pictures on Steam Scenes later this week.

Great photo's again, David. Many thanks

Thanks Dave for sharing those with us. One year I will get down to Camborne to see the event for myself. However, at the moment I am concentrating on getting myself fit after my illness as I have been virtually housebound for the past two months apart from visiting Doctors and Hospitals.

At least the time at home gave me the opportunity to prepare further articles for Vintage Spirit one of which will be in the next issue and will be completely different from my previous ones!, plus, there will be something special to go with it!

A great weekend in Camborne!!! Thanks to Jon and Co for organising it, Charlie, Robin & Steve and Co for organising the load, and everyone else for making it one of the best events of the year! Well worth the trip, couldnt recomend it enough! Ive took Hundreds of photos and wont put too many as David and Steve great photos sum up the event well,but a couple of photos of the road run today! Cant beat following engines on your bike in beautiful Cornwall!

http://www.tractiontalkforum.com/pic...ictureid=11529

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Just like to point out that the Robey Tandem roller ,RL 75 in the pic above , is intending to road to Dorset this year! A huge trip for such a small, slow roller. Well done to the owner I say!

I saw them out on the road yesterday Jim! I was really suprised how well it seems to road! The driver had a nice seat, and with its trailer is still quite small and easy to overtake! Still a trip to Dorset is hundreds of miles, cant wait to see it!!

Can anyone help with engine details for the Fowler I believe in pictures 4 and 8 which looks to be 'as found' engine.

Thanks in advance

Which engine is this David? (to save me hunting my records!)

4157 - lovely engine.

Agreed - very smart.

The Compound Aveling Roller is a very handsome looking machine. Love the heavy haulage! Brilliant mix of engines.

I would have to agree, its a real credit to all concerned

Can anyone tell me the the number of the Vincent family's Fowler compound TE?

Turbo's Fowler
 

12063 I do believe

I thought the fowler was unidentified, or did I imagine it! Where did it come back from?

I'll try not to bore you all by repeating the same pictures David and Robin have already posted, but here are a few of mine.

We were a little worried when Saturday dawned overcast and cold...and then it started to rain!

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But by the time we started roading into the town, it started to clear and brighten up. So much so the sun even came out by the time we got to town!

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I thought it would be a good idea to get a few pictures whilst it looked fairly quiet. This turned out to be a very good idea...

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...as this picture doesn't do justice to just how packed the streets were with people!

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And it wasn't just about full-size. Miniatures took their place too:

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Then it was time to road back to the car park. As were were a little quicker on the Garret, I had time to catch the rollers coming back:

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And then it was time for some to load up for home

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Thanks for the kind comments, Prince Albert is a credit to Scott Yeo's work. Still a few jobs to do in the next couple of weeks. But mostly there. We had a good road run back to Stithians. Much less eventful than the trip across! For an engine that is very similar to my traction engine, it is quite different to drive and fire!

To the Trevithick Day organisers, a very well done. Excellant weekend all round. Weather was as good as we could have hoped for. Thanks for making us very welcome by all of the people that we were there with and talked to.

Douglas

Brilliant photos, thanks.

Lee.

Australia wasnt it?!!!!

Full selection of pics now on Steam Scenes:

Pictures:
http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/events...revithick-day/

Sorted by Engine:
http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/events...k-day/engines/

The Fowler was on show at last years Torbay Steam Fair and the details in the rally programme show it to be a Compound 7nhp Agricultural Engine works number 12046 built 1909. It was brought back from Australia in 2003 and is believed to be in ot's original paintwork.

I hope that the above info is of help.

The engine is 12063 as mentioned above, and it did indeed come back from Australia. The number is stamped on it. It was delivered on 13th September 1909 to Fowler's Sydney agent, W M Noakes, then went to H G W Thackeray of Young, NSW.
It is almost certainly in its original paintwork - the original lining is visible in places, and Richard certainly has not painted it.

Full story in Vintage Spirit, 125, December 2012.