Nigel from Leicester, 8 months into a 4″ Showman’s build, has a ‘wheelie’ good job on his hand with 7 wheels all now built and painted. 7?
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Nigel from Leicester, 8 months into a 4″ Showman’s build, has a ‘wheelie’ good job on his hand with 7 wheels all now built and painted. 7?
Thanks to all our Virtually Dorset fans and a special thanks for all the comments and feedback from you both during the show and afterwards. We appreciate it very much and it proved very popular.
Steam Traction World kits are only available as three options, which one is best for you?
A limited batch of 20 water bowsers are being manufactured in July. We have already received commitments for 8 of these and are accepting deposits on the remaining 12 currently. All bowsers now come with vulcanised rubber tyres included
After 5 years machining mainly boilers, cylinders, horn plates and wheels (basically anything big!) it’s time to say goodbye to our Hyundai-Kia Milling machine…
The 4″ scale Burrell Roller A brand new engine from Steam Traction World a stunning engine and a right rarity on the rally field, a 4″ (1/3rd) scale Burrell Roller. Weighing in at 600kg* with a working differential and the
Well – here we go then! Something I never thought I would be saying but between myself, my wife and my grandfather we are going to build a 6″ Foden C type.
It’s a great time to start that project. Build your very own engine for future events we can all return to and enjoy. In fact you could call it “building a better tomorrow” and when better, than starting today?
So 20 customers have early Christmas presents after the boiler inspector was in on Monday to pass them off.
Few pics of some of the boilers ready and waiting for the inspector to come in and sign off on the 14th Dec (there are others I just didn’t take photos of them all)