RLS 75th Birthday
 

I attended the Road Locomotive Society 75th Birthday celebrations at Hollycombe today. To coincide with this milestone the society has published a new book, a history of John Allen & Sons by Jonathan Brown. There was also a vast amount of historic Allen photograph and documents to view - a really impressive display.

The unique Allen ploughing engine which lives at Hollycombe has received much attention over the winter and was in steam especially for the launch and looked superb in the sunshine:

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An interesting engine owned by at TT member that I had not seen before was Aveling & Porter 8974:

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Many of the other Hollycombe engines were in steam too:

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An added bonus was Burrell 3984 which belonged to the late Geoff Gilbert, a former RLS president, was in steam at Bicknell's works, just down the road from Hollycombe.

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A lovely day for looking at engines, chatting and taking photographs.

Excellent pictures as ever David, it was nice to meet and chat to you. Mike.

No 67 looks great.......shame its stuck in a museum though.

Allen ploughing engine
 

Great pics mate the Allen ploughing engine looks fantastic Hopfully will see it out soon.

Lovely to see Burrell 3984 "Dolly" back in steam. I am sure she will soon be back to her old self and look outstanding.

Jim

It's not like it is stuffed and mounted though, fairly regularly steamed and worked on a cultivator.

I know, the main thing is its survived & safe,i have a particular interest in this engine through friendship with the designers son.

it is also hosting the wsmtec rally so was trundling about on my engine, what a great day, sunny too. was luck enough to be sat outside Bicknels when Dolly came out, we followed it up the hill to the museum, boy what a bark it had!, rally and museum open to public today if any one fancies a visit.

Matt

Nice to see the Allen done up at last.

I do like that Aveling traction, lovely little engine.