15th SEPTEMBER 2001
27th GRAND HENHAM STEAM RALLY
Today's weather: Bright with a few showers.
A row of traction engines and road rollers
all with steam up waiting to parade in the
grand ring.
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Lovingly restored stationary engines.
A 1909 Foden Road Locomotive No1294 being used to power a rack sawbench .
A demonstration of log sawing using a circa
1881 Rack Sawbench, note the size of
the teeth on the saw blade.
A pair of fully restored Field Marshall tractors.
A Fordson Power Major tractor parading in the
ring, in excess of 100 tractors were on
display at the rally.
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"The Old Man" A pre-1920 Sentinal Standard Steam Wagon, the wagon was actually built using parts from three early standard Sentinals, the earliest being 1907. |
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This may look like a full size traction engine but is in fact a fully working model standing about 4 foot high. |
A fully working model of a Rapier Dragline.
Smaller models were on display in the model
tent, these exquisite models must have
taken many hundreds of hours to build.
"Gladys" A model steam train.
A demonstration of wood turning using a pole lathe.
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