Robey And Fowler's Trip To France
 

Had a Fantastic time in a little village in France called St Aubin du Bois, Perfect atmosphere, friendly people, no H&S despite the thousands of people there. And most of all fantastic food and drink, heres a few pictures of the event.

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After being pushed off by a merlo in gear managed to make 5 pound of pressure without even lighting a fire

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Driving on the right hand side of the road was interesting

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You actually had to pay to get into the village, not on the engines though

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Some early first world war lorries all original

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The english have invaded!

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A rather good turn out of people

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Dave sampling the very moorish cidre mormandie

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French Clayton Portable

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A rather cute little marshall portable

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Woodsawing

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Laundry demonstration

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On the way back to the low loader on the farm

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Back at the farm disposing of the engine before loading

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The french weather got the better of dad

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Richard looking very local

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Getting ready for loading

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All ready for home

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The thank you dinner was well recieved by us

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Portables loaded for short trip home

All in all a great weekend and a big thank you to the people of St Aubin de Bois for there fantastic hospitality!

looks like you had a good time mate, cya at dorset.

Cheers Dan, It was a great Weekend, the i cider over there was gorgeous! Seeing a horse driven thresher was interesting too lol

Now that looks like seriously good fun, nice one :)

Nice to see some pictures of this event as we have successfully missed this rally for two consecutive years!

Thankyou for posting these photographs, it looked like a quality event. Now for something completely different . . I found a book called 'Steam Thrashing in the Cotswolds' in a bookshop in Chipping Camden, just started reading it . . fascinating read.

Ahh Now that sounds like a read! many mentions of certain engines?

A certain Robey is mentioned along with old photographs of it, including one in Fairford gravel pits, quite close to where Pedler was located. A fascinating history of the Blackwell family of Northleach and their many engines. By Michael Thexton, published by Regency Press in 1986 running to 115pps.

Thats a great story.

I didn't know that steam was allowed on the roads in France ?

Or is it OK 'cos yours are road legal here in Blighty.

Not a problem roading engines in France as long as you ask the right people