Somerset Traction Engine Club's New Year's Day Gathering and Road Run, Jan 1st 2013

[dumpy]

Originally Posted by Pride of Somerset

Chester's a good engine on the hills - mind you she needs to be in your neck of the woods!! I gather Rob and Nick went over to the Westonzoyland Pumping Station. They were not back when I left, about ten minutes before I caught up with you.
Thanks for coming, and particularly for bringing the two engines. Chester has been noted as being the most famous engine to pass through West Monkton..... but don't tell the owners of The Gladiator, Cornish Maid, Princess Mary, Duke of Kent, Progress etc., etc., etc. (Forgot that our 50th anniversary road run in 2005 started from there). Incidentally, the first ever Taunton Rally in 1956 was in the field alongside the layby where you stopped to oil up, and to do , other things....

check the tire pressures ?

[benz1890]

Yea that right how did you know Dumpy? The pressure was great on the wheel I examined!
Any photos of that lovely 1912 Renault?
A couple of vids below, also some priming with an over full boiler!!
Mike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jULkWtKrXO4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iceSVBLne38

[Pride of Somerset]

[QUOTE=benz1890;240399]Yea that right how did you know Dumpy? The pressure was great on the wheel I examined!
Any photos of that lovely 1912 Renault?


Not the best of pics, got a better one last year.... Wrong place at the wrong time this year!!