Join us on this extra special journey of transporting this Lancashire boiler 12 miles to the Chester-Le-Street steam rally using 2 Fowler 3 speed road loco's "Kingfisher" & "Windrush". And a 45 tonne Scammell heavy haulage trailer with Sentinel 6 tonne drop sided ruler for transporting coal & water at the back of the convoy. The Crew Consist's of Brian Kell "Dangerous Brain" & Cris Bainbridge manning "Kingfisher", a young lad Cameron on the trailer brakes, & Jack Robinson with Mark Bainbridge aboard "Windrush". Many hours have gone into restoring the 2 trailers and painting the boiler ready for the show back in july which was sadly canceled due to the heavy rain so it was rescheduled for 21st & 22nd of September.
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have recreated these impressive scenes of Englands era of steam Haulage which there is a book called the "THE BIG BOX" by T.Mctaggart which is an excellent book for anybody who wishes to see & learn more about other impressive loads by these massive iron giants mainly undertaken by Norman E Box.
Fowler No.14888 "Kingfisher'' 8 NHP R3 Compound road loco which was originally a 2 speed built new for the Ministry of munitions in 1917 & spent its first year baling hay in the Home countries.
After the end of WW1 in November 1918 a vast number of engine were sold.
A batch of 10 Fowlers were sold to Foleys of Bourne Lincolnshire one of which was "Kingfisher"
The 3rd owner was Thomas Gee of Wrydelands Farm, Thorney who was a Threshing contractor used "Kingfisher" to power his Clayton & Shuttleworth threshing drum. After Mr Gee's death in 1929 the engine & drum went to peterburgh market where both sold and were bought by H Gibbons & Son's "Kingfisher" for £82 & the thresher for £52 it was later then sold in 9th December 1952.
The Ministry order 50 R3's No.14888 "Kingfisher" & No14893 "Midnight" are the only 2 left in in road Loco form as the rest have all been converted into Showman's spec either in there working life or in preservation.
We Reckon the Lancashire Boiler weighs about 20 tonnes & the Scammell trailer weigh about another 10 tonne + plus another 17 tonne when "Windrush" starts lagging.
The 45 tonne Scammel Heavy Haulage trailer we can see carrying the boiler was owned & operated by th famous Pickfords & then sold to Thompson boiler works for similar work as can be seen in the video. Boiler no.130 Manufactured by John Thompson & co in 1927 is 30ft long & 7ft 6" in diameter with a working pressure of 120 psi, because of its weight it had to be lifted onto the trailer with a mobile crane. The boiler came from Kew Bridge Steam Museum.
Bringing up the rear is Fowler No.14925 "Windrush" which is also a 8 NHP engine but is an TE2 model compound & was originally a 2 speed general purpose engine also built in 1917 for the ministry of munitions as an Haulage & winding engine. In the video Brian has sent me some old photos of it with its winding drum still attached. Of the 75 TE2's ordered by the Ministry the only 2 that still have there winding drums on are
No.14933 "Challenger" & No.14950 "Lady Penelope"
At the end of the road train is the sentinel 4-6 tonne 4 wheel drop side rulley that was built in 1920's & owned by A.Robinson & sons Farnham Surrey which is now used by Brian to carry coal, water & passengers.
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