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Old 21st July 2016, 05:59 AM
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The answer is yes. This from the recent Keeley sale page from Cheffins:

http://www.cheffins.co.uk/lot/-1190039-vintage-0

“ 1914 John Fowler ploughing engine Class DD. No. 13910. Reg No: AB9987. 8nhp. Single cylinder 'My Delight' This small 8nhp ploughing engine is thought to be the only survivor of this class of single cylinder piston valve engine. It left Fowlers works on 05/09/1914 as one of a pair of identical engines and delivered to SA & HA Whittome of Ely, Cambs, then passing through the hands of Samuel Jackson of Cheshire in 1917 and Philip E Bomford of Worcester in 1921, finishing its working life with WR Johnston of Bufton, Warks, where its sister engine No. 13909 was scrapped. The Fowler was bought for preservation in 1958 by John Younger of Birtley, Co. Durham who named her 'My Delight'. The engine was a familiar sight on northern rally fields for a couple of decades in the hands of Hubert Nixon and John Bainbridge before passing to John Keeley in 1992. There are several old boiler reports available for inspection (one of which states it was rebuilt in 1986) and the engine was last taxed and insured in 2002, since when it has been dry stored. With its salter safety valves and unusually fitted with Fowler governors, this is a rare and historically important Fowler.”
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