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Bosiboz

25th March 2016 07:19 PM

Quorn Easter Vintage Festival

Proff

25th March 2016 09:11 PM

Fiery Elias is looking well.

tasker tractor

25th March 2016 09:25 PM

Details of the early Aveling please.
Thanks Mike

Bosiboz

25th March 2016 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by tasker tractor (Post 359988)

Details of the early Aveling please.
Thanks Mike

I think it's Aveling 1760 of 1882 reg DP 3672. Other than that I don't know anything about it.

tiny	26th March 2016 03:17 PM

its the one that was with Jim crane and co aint it?

Gordon Bennett

26th March 2016 04:33 PM

I also visited the GCR yesterday and this Aveling caught my eye – it has some unusual features compared to later machines. Below are three photos of it. Having recently drilled and tapped 16 holes to secure the cylinder on to the boiler barrel of my 3” Foden, I had to take a photo of the cylinder on this engine – I think it has 8 bolts holding the cylinder down. Can anyone enlighten me as to what is going on with the cylinder end cover – it seems to allow access to the end of the steam chest/valve...? What material would the boiler be made from – wrought iron or steel?

Michael

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New Forest 2603

26th March 2016 04:50 PM

The cylinder bolts are to hold the casting in position - it is not a steam tight joint. There will be two pipes from the boiler providing the steam supply with nuts and joints accessed originally via the manhole in the front tubeplate - the standard arrangement for Aveling rollers and engines up to the turn of the century. The boiler would originally have been WI - whether it is now depends on whether it has been reboilered which it appears to have been given the manhole in the barrel. The cylinder cover is combined as two parts with a front cover to the valve chest - again standard for rollers and engines of that age.

Paul

tasker tractor

26th March 2016 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Gordon Bennett (Post 360008)

The cylinder is known as a nipple cylinder as there are two large pipe nipples into the boiler barrel that seal the steam joint. The front of the valve chest area does come off I wonder if it was an aid to machining to face the valve on a slotter type machine.
I would guess by the position of the man hole it was reboilered by Avelings
Mine is number 2760 from 1890 and has the same features including being reboilered in 1912
Mike
Typing at the same time as Paul

00000

26th March 2016 04:55 PM

The cylinder could be fed with steam by a nipple through the barrell shell so the base of the cylinder itself dos'nt need to be a steam tight joint. Though I.m not really up on Avelings , someone will correct me if i'm wrong. It could also be an elbow into the rear of the cyl, with the same effect. The boiler may well be steel.

Bosiboz

26th March 2016 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by tiny (Post 360002)

its the one that was with Jim crane and co aint it?

Think it's still with Crane family.

Gordon Bennett

26th March 2016 07:26 PM

At the risk of sounding like... someone who wears a certain type of jacket and should get out more... I noticed yesterday there are washers under the nuts which hold the cylinder down on this Aveling roller - would this be as originally built? I have observed a lack of washers on engines, a Burrell roller I crewed on in the past did not have washers under the cylinder nuts but in a Foden spares catalogue washers under the same nuts are clearly visible.

Michael

tasker tractor

26th March 2016 08:15 PM

Just checked my pictures and my Aveling has washers and the Burrell SRL doesn't

UJ2225

26th March 2016 10:06 PM

Isn't this the roller that Aveling Barfords took to a few exhibitions back in the early 60"s. I think she was also on the front cover of a book about the firm of AvelingPorter / Barford..

Jim

7833	27th March 2016 07:15 AM

1760 entered new ownership earlier this year when a group of 5 of us (including Ed and Jim Crane, Geoff James, Jamie Keyte and myself) bought her.

The plan is to fully rebuild her, including mostly new boiler, once we have finished off Aveling 1995 which is coming back together at a pace now.

She was reboilered by Avelings in 1895, and spent most of her useful life with Corporation of Reading before ending up in the ownership of Aveling-Barford. She is the roller on the front cover of 'A Hundred Years of Road Rollers' and is the same one A-B took to various exhibitions as part of their sales display, and also had a session in a couple of museums. This is the first time she has been seen out in a few decades, and has generated quite a lot of interest as the oldest roller in the country. Thanks to Michael and the GCR for having us along.

MBmtew

28th March 2016 04:03 PM

Visited the event today and despite the weather I really enjoyed it. Lots
to see and a good varied line up of engines. Most enjoyable

mark vine

28th March 2016 05:11 PM

The only one I have seen with it's original "bobbin" steering, it's also 5 years older than mine. Lovely old girl, nice to see it out.

Mark.

steamenginedriver

28th March 2016 09:49 PM

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