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Subject: [Leica] Steam road vehicles in BW
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed Oct 26 15:12:05 2005
References: <435F8407.1010408@gmx.de> <435FF62F.3000008@summaventures.com>

Hello Peter,
these were taken some time in the 80s (1984 I think)at the vintage 
vehicle day at Beamish Industrial Museum in County Durham,
which is a superb place to visit.
For me the interesting bit is the young lady to be seen in front of the 
swing-boats on that shot, it's my elder sister, Posy (yes, the same name 
as the cat), who used to live not far from Beamish, and showed me around 
the place.
Unfortunately I missed the big Pickering Rally this year by one day, we 
flew back to Germany on the day it started. Poor organisation!!
Douglas

Peter Dzwig wrote:

> Douglas Sharp wrote:
>
> Need I say that I like them? particularly William V.
>
> I like the view through below the nameplate to which you are drawn,but 
> it isn't such that you ignore the machinery,
>
> Where were they taken? I will have to go hunting...I got some good 
> ones at afair in Paris a few years back, but taken on an
>
> Ol***** mu-1!
>
> thanks for showing them,
>
>
> Peter
>
> I seem to have started something!
>
>
>
>> Very old shots, 20+ years, the colours were faded and from the time 
>> when Fuji was much too vivid anyway.
>> The only solution - converting them to BW.
>>
>> Colossal Fowler ploughing engine, shot in a shed
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image7_1_edited_1
>> William V, a road locomotive converted for fairground use, the power 
>> take-off is running a generator mounted above the nameplate
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image6_1_BW_edited_1
>> A Clayton and Shuttleworth agricutural engine running a threshing 
>> machine
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image5_3_edited_1
>> A Foden steam lorry
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image3_6_BW_edited_1
>> William V Showman's engine conversion
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image3_5_edited_2
>> Fowler of Leeds road roller, some of these are actually still in use 
>> around the UK
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image2c_BW_edited_1
>> William V, in classic Fairground Livery
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image2_7_BW_edited_1
>> Fowler Lion, King Carnival Showman's Engine with chimney extension 
>> attached, to avoid smoking out the fairground and to increase the 
>> draught.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image2_6_BW_edited_1
>>
>>
>> Hope you like them
>> cheers
>> Douglas
>>
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