Malpas Yesteryear Rally 2025
 

Last weekend saw this event's 50th anniversary rally.

We attended on the Saturday and while, as expected, there were many engines that had been at Onslow Park in Shrewsbury two weeks earlier, several had not. including two portable engines which need restoration and were making their public debuts:
https://www.internationalsteam.co.uk.../ukindex25.htm
With 41 engines present, I believe that this was the largest ever turnout here.

The little black Wallis was also making its public debut.

It was implied that it was so in the programme notes which I read much later.
It was not a 'lucky engine' on a day when the sun came and mainly went. The pictures I took of "Tilly" (WS 7835) and that of "Nipper" (WS 7840) couldn't be more different but were taken in exactly the same place as they left the parade but just 3 minutes apart.
I am not an expert in these things but it seemed to me that it had a non-standard worksplate, is this so?

The works plate is original, Wallis seemed to change over to the large cast "dashboard" around late 1925/26, in doing so got rid of the brass numbered plates on bunkers