Royal Cornwall Show
 

A nice turnout today for the Royal Cornwall Show, the weather ensuring a busy Thursday and most probably a record breaking attendance for Friday & Saturday. Camera problems today so not all engines made the post.

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Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive 3159, The Gladiator
Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive 2072, The Masterpiece
Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive 3103, Queen Alexandra
Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive 3910, Wait & See
Burrell Crane Engine 3166, Joe Chamberlain
Ransomes Sims & Jefferies General Purpose 38088, Enterprise

I thought you said Royal CORNWALL Show, not seen one cornish engine on the site !!!!!

Cornish engines must be dull steve, it's all about welsh engines and engines from Devon ;)

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Any other engines there?
Gladiator, Enterprise & now Queen Alexandra are Cornish engines surely Steve.

A Foden Steam Tractor of which I don't have a picture unfortunately. Speaking to some friends down there it's owned by a member of WESES (the President?) and rarely shows.

That'd be John Sawle with his very rare Foden Agritractor then...

Thanks Nick, yes that confirms it. Reading on another forum John writes that it is the only remaining engine of its kind with only six being built - I was surprised to learn it was built as late as 1930, but I understand that petrol-paraffin engines weren't commonplace until the mid/late 30's anyway.

Not correct Jim ! they are owned by cornish owners !!

Steve.

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The Foden Sun Tractor, with John Sawle and Kev Bragg (i think) discussing this years prime bikini spotting locations...

To be pedantic Johns Foden is an 'Agritractor', the only one.

Crawfords in Frithville have a 'Sun' tractor. Again the only one.

Same boiler and engine, one was designed for agricultural use. The other haulage. Similar but different.

Johns Agritractor is ace. I believe I am correct in saying it was driven to the show from Johns home. 30odd? miles.

Does that make it a conversion ?

What?.

First time ive seen this , even a photo of Johns engine, looks good. John's a very knowlegable chap.

Doesn't half shift on the road...

We drove up on Sunday last, 26 miles in two hours with a water stop halfway. Excellent trip, using the new braked water cart for the first time. The Foden's brakes are nothing special and the engine does not provide any compression braking so the extra trailer brakes were very welcome. I have done some work on balancing the engine with a lead weight fixed on the inner flange of the flywheel rim. This has allowed us to run the crank up a little faster but it can improved further I think. The few other teething troubles are getting sorted one by one. We plan to travel home this coming Sunday leaving the showground about 11 am.

This is the Foden Agritractor at the Norman Ball Auction on the Isle of Wight in 1991

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Finally got round to posting my photos from a great event! They should be visible to all:
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