When Steam Ruled the Roads: A Traction Engine Archive - Softcover

Tyson, Colin

 
9781398119666: When Steam Ruled the Roads: A Traction Engine Archive
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1398119660 ISBN 13: 9781398119666
Verlag: Amberley Publishing, 2025

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The period between the late 1800s and the late 1920s was the heyday of the road steam traction engine. Prior to that, ‘portable’ steam engines were pulled by horses from farm to farm to provide the power unit for belting to machinery for tasks such as the annual threshing. The invention of the self-moving traction engine brought many advances, always staying one jump ahead of amendments to the Locomotive Acts. Fairground operators hauled their huge road train of rides to the next fair; ploughing engines and threshing engines travelled from farm to farm; road haulers carried massive loads; and steam rollers laid and mended our roads. The availability of cheap surplus First World War petrol vehicles saw road haulers and fairground showmen dispense with the ‘hassle’ of operating steam vehicles, yet there were still manufacturers making steam wagons until the late 1930s and several councils still operating true steam rollers right into the 1960s.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Colin Tyson is Sussex born and bred, having returned to his native county following a publishing career in local newspapers and monthly magazines. He is the former editor of the international monthly steam engine and vintage preservation magazine Old Glory and also Bluebell News, the quarterly journal of the heritage Bluebell Railway.

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Verlag
Amberley Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1398119660
ISBN 13 
9781398119666
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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