Quorn Easter Vintage Festival

[Bosiboz]

Few pictures from the Quorn Easter Vintage Festival late on today. Unfortunately the light wasn't brilliant. The three Leicestershire rollers together for the first time in many years.

[Proff]

Fiery Elias is looking well.

[tasker tractor]

Details of the early Aveling please.
Thanks Mike

[Bosiboz]

Originally Posted by tasker tractor

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]

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

[Bosiboz]

Originally Posted by tiny

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

Think it's still with Crane family.

[Gordon Bennett]

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

[tasker tractor]

Originally Posted by Gordon Bennett

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

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

[UJ2225]

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

[New Forest 2603]

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