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Originally Posted by 00000
I would say a nice selection of engines. I like these relaxed little rallies.
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Fair comment, but can you have both a relaxed atmosphere and some sort of activity happening to keep enthusiasts/ visitors happy at the same time? With the rally field being somewhat undulating - and ground conditions permitting, engines doing a circuit with an appropriate trailer of some kind would have been quite something. It would make the event something special instead of it being an average rally where nothing moves all day. If I did not know a good number of the engine people there, I would have been disappointed with the show - because of the lack of engine movement. The engines that were in attendance prove that it is quality over quantity that matters - perhaps something for the organisers of GDSF to think about with talk of 500 engines next year.
Anyway, here are three more photos; two of Hawkes and one of Diamond Queen. I have used a "soft focus" technique on this last photo... Ok, that is bollocks, the picture was taken quite late in the day and the light was rapidly changing - and I was trying to hold the camera with one hand only...
This engine has a few earlier Burrell features - the perch bracket and two ball governor. The jack under the rear wheel - is this to tension the belt...???
Michael
