Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre 2004

 
Programme Cover Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre 2004
Maker: Marshall
Type: Traction Engine
Year: 1923
Works No: 76751
Registration No: BT 6447
Name:  
Weight: 10 1/2 ton
NHP: 7
Further information:
Supplied new to Harness’s Threshing contractors in Yorkshire before moving in the early 1940’s to Mr. T. Swain of Boston, Lincs where it was used for contract work including threshing, sawing and forestry work. Purchased in 1960 for £100 by Mr. J. Dawson who found it overgrown with nettles on a riverbank. Its first rally was at Skegness. Purchased by the present owners father P.C.Bath in 1966 and rebuilt by Eastern Boilerworks of Saffron Walden. Re-united with Len Harness aged 89 in May this year (2004), who drove the engine commercially from new.
Marshall Traction Engine Works No. 76751
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