Klondyke Mill Summer Steam Party 8-June-2008

[8_10 Brass Cleaner]

Originally Posted by CUSTOMCRANK

I remember seeing Fowler RL `CYNORTHWYWR ` in Tanners threshing contractors yard at CAERSWS near Newtown in mid - Wales along with another Fowler RL 19338
which the late Frank Holl of Worcester bought . This was in about 1952 . Frank paid
£ 100 for 19338 and called her MONTY after the old county Montgomeryshire.

Everyone thought Frank mad to pay so much for an engine then when the going rate was about £ 25, but Monty is a very late engine on pressed on rubbers and had done nothing
except a few seasons threshing during the war, and prior to that its first owners were the Englefield Estate near Reading. It was only 20 years old and like new.

Tanners offered both Fowlers for about £150 but Frank wasn`t interested in CYNORTHWYWR because of its non-standard front wheels . These, we were told were supplied by Sentinel - what happened to the original wheels I don`t know . Frank did buy a Garrett Tractor from Tanners . Monty was retubed in Tanner`s yard and then driven back to Hartlebury, near Kidderminster, towing the Garrett.

My part in all this was as a young teenager sitting in the firebox, helping to knock the old tubes out and expanding the new ones in - the start of my apprenticeship in steam.

MARK
INDUSTRIAL CRANKSHAFTS LTD.
WOLVERHAMPTON.

Mike Llywellyn showed me a box brownie photograph of an unknown (to him) Fowler Road Loco with Dick Tanner driving (he recognised him), turns out the Fowler was 15376, Bridsons engine.

Can anyone tell me whay happened, Did Tanners have 15376 on hire?, or did Dick Tanner drive a season for Bridsons?

Any ideas George/Mark??

[Rod Boesing]

Originally Posted by 8_10 Brass Cleaner

Mike Llywellyn showed me a box brownie photograph of an unknown (to him) Fowler Road Loco with Dick Tanner driving (he recognised him), turns out the Fowler was 15376, Bridsons engine.

Can anyone tell me whay happened, Did Tanners have 15376 on hire?, or did Dick Tanner drive a season for Bridsons?

Any ideas George/Mark??

The Tanners drove 15376 (and others) as far as i can tell up to the end of the second world war during the summer on tarspraying jobs, i think i have a picture of George Tanner with others next to 68754, the Marshall is hotting tar in the days before oil fireing so it must have been taken before 1932, another chap (Bob) looks very young so it could easly have been taken in the second half of the 1920's. But as usual the picture is very small and a bit dog eared !!.

[Rod Boesing]

Originally Posted by Rod Boesing

The Tanners drove 15376 (and others) as far as i can tell up to the end of the second world war during the summer on tarspraying jobs, i think i have a picture of George Tanner with others next to 68754, the Marshall is hotting tar in the days before oil fireing so it must have been taken before 1932, another chap (Bob) looks very young so it could easly have been taken in the second half of the 1920's. But as usual the picture is very small and a bit dog eared !!.

Sorry to dig this thread up again !!. Cant locate the picture !!.

Coal was bought here :-



And a roller or two was hired from this lot :-


Wonder what rollers they had ?!.