Old Glory

Old Glory Britain's best-selling magazine for steam and vintage machinery enthusiasts

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Meet The Team
Editor-at-large - Former York school teacher who has worked with the editor since 1995 and has a wealth of knowledge on steam, commercials and tractors. Technical and Vintage World Editor - Derek’s knowledge is extensive, a steam roller owner since t
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Editor: Peter Love Tel: 01323 833125 Email: [email protected] Technical Advisor: Derek Rayner C Eng, MI Mech E Art editor: Paul Silk Sue Fixter, Publishing Works Tel: 01507 499082 Email: [email protected] Advertisement Mananger: David Lane Of
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Welcome
When you are as old as I am and have been privileged to attend preservation rallies, sales and gatherings, including the Chris Lambert disposal sale in June 1955 (even if I was in my pram for most of its proceedings!), you’ll have seen lots of change
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Half A Century Of Steam
I first met Jonathan Vartan at a local rally where I was a commentator and rally marshal. He had not long been the owner of Hermes, Fowler DNC 4nhp compound road roller No. 21833 built in 1936, and I was pleased to note that the engine was in fine or
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Great Dorset Steam Fair Latest
The Great Dorset Steam Fair is pleased to announce that local brewery Gritchie Brewing Company are to sponsor the 2022 event. Gritchie Brewing Co, who are based in Ashmore, just on the Dorset/Wiltshire border, only a few miles away from the show site
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Britannia To Road To Gdsf
James Wren Davis has informed us he will be roading 1904 Burrell 8hp showman’s road locomotive No.2668 from the Thames Valley to Tarrant Hinton in the week leading up to the event over 25-29 August. It will be steered by the excellent Della Fagg who
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Great Progress On Gallopers
It was great to see the investment being poured in to the Strumpshaw Steam Museum, Norfolk, which now features a full concrete floor in its new extension and the area was in use during the recent June rally. It’s suggested the gallopers are a product
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Gdsf To Support Hospitals
Got a story? Contact Old Glory • Email: [email protected]• Tel: 01323 833125 The Great Dorset Steam Fair has thrown its support behind its two local hospital charities, Salisbury District Hospital Stars Appeal and the Dorset County Hospital Ch
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Full Steam Ahead For Summerlee Steam Fair!
The Friends of Summerlee are inviting readers to come along on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 August to their first steam fair at the Coatbridge industrial museum since Covid-19 struck. Summerlee’s own Fowler road roller and 4in scale traction engine Tigg
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Award For Hereford’s Waterworks Museum
Got a story? Contact Old Glory • Email: [email protected]• Tel: 01323 833125 The Waterworks Museum at Broomy Hill in Hereford has been awarded The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (QAVS). This is the highest award a local voluntary group ca
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Tim Keeps Waverley Steaming!
Meet Tim Jenkins, PS Waverley’s new first engineer. Tim came to the rescue of the world’s only sea-going paddle steamer when he responded to an appeal for a steam-ticketed chief engineer, without whom the 75-year-old paddler was going nowhere this se
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Emotions High As Jcb Machines Join Pageant Fit For A Queen
JCB machines from landmark years of Her Majesty the Queen’s 70-year reign took centre stage on June 5 at the spectacular Platinum Jubilee Pageant in London. The five diggers paraded down The Mall towards Buckingham Palace past members of the Royal Fa
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Gdsf Is Back!
Following a pandemic-induced two-year absence, the sleepy fields of the show site are once again gearing up for the world’s largest heritage event to assemble across the 600-acre site. The year-round working farm will be transformed as a platform to
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SCOTLAND’S OLDEST RAILWAY MARKS 300th ANNIVERSARY
Got a story? Contact Old Glory • Email: [email protected]• Tel: 01323 833125 The 300th anniversary of the opening of Scotland’s oldest railway was marked on Saturday 7 May when members of the 1722 Waggonway Project held a ceremony on the cours
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Back To Its Roots
On Sunday 24 April Nathan Tompsett brought his original style Fordson E27N tractor back to the farm where it worked in its early life, Toll Farm, Bodle Street Green, East Sussex. It was greeted by farmer Geoff Holt and family who just loved having th
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Letters
Peter Love, Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL Tel: 01323 833125 [email protected] Dear Editor, I’m trying to track down my dad’s old International 574, registration number SNT 566R. He starte
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Model News
From Universal Hobbies in 1/32 scale comes this limited edition (1000 pieces) gift set of three Fordson tractors [7], namely the Fordson Super Dexta New Performance, Fordson Super Major New Performance and the Fordson Dexta New Performance. This was
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Isle Of Man Horse Tram 34
PART TWO The seats and upright pillars for the roof support were bolted back in position, any new bolts went into the lathe and the heads were re-profiled to look old, and square stainless steel nuts were used. A complete new roof was next on the lis
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In The Next Issue
WANT IT TODAY? GO DIGITAL In the September issue of Old Glory David Reed continues the story of James Allison’s latest restoration on an ex Argentinean Aveling and Porter XAC tractor, surely up their as the restoration of the year? David Reed also do
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Westbury Variety
The 26th Westbury Transport & Vintage Gathering was held at Bratton, near Westbury, Wiltshire on April 23 and 24, reports Joseph Lewis. Organised by Keith Miller and family, the large, single-field set-up held a variety of interest from a classic sit
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Aveling Arrives From Argentina
PART ONE New to the rally scene this year is James Allison’s superb 1909 Aveling & Porter XAC 4 nominal horse power 5-ton steam tractor, No.6781 and registered ME 1256, which has been seen and receiving lots of attention on the rally circuit recently
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Scammell Centenary Celebration
Exactly 100 years to the day after Scammell Lorries Ltd opened its Tolpits Lane factory in Watford, on 1 May 1922, one of the largest Scammell-only gatherings took place just down the road to celebrate the milestone anniversary. Zack Stiling went alo
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Camborne’s Salute To Cap’n Dick
Dick Bodily travelled to Camborne to take in the Trevithick Day festivities and soak up some of the local history. The district around Camborne, Redruth and St Day is steeped in industrial history. It’s not like the Cornwall that tourists see, it’s m
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Endurance Takes To The Road
On the evening of Thursday 16 May the venerable October 1895 Fowler A4 6hp single-cylinder traction engine No. 7459, BW4506, Endurance, took to the roads of East Sussex again on its own wheels heading towards the superb High Weald Steam Working Weeke
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Steam Buses – Almost On A Road To Nowhere!
PART 3 Mention was previously made about a Sentinel bus going to Europe, in that Škoda in Czechoslovakia was the recipient of one from Shrewsbury in the mid-1920s. The Škoda firm also built several steam waggons of the Sentinel type in their works at
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Diesel-electric Haul Trucks From General Motors Of Canada
PART TWO In 1978, the Titan was moved from Eagle Mountain Mine to Kaiser Resources’ Balmer open pit coal mine near Sparwood, British Columbia, Canada. There it joined a fleet of other world record-beating, outsize machines including a fleet of 20 Uni
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Lines Prepare For 150 Years Of Terriers
A group of railways and the Terrier Trust are working on a programme of events later in the year to celebrate 150 years since the first LB&SCR ‘A1’ 0-6-0T Terrier was built. Fifty Terriers were built between 1872 and 1880 and, amazingly, no less than
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RAILWAY Roundabout
If you have something for this column please send it to: [email protected] A railwayana collection amassed by a deceased former Tyseley steam fitter included four rare GWR nameplates not known to exist. The four; from a King, Castle, County and
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Tinkers Park, The Next Generation
This report from David Vaughan is mainly about a traction engine from the Claude Jessett Trust that made the journey, under its own steam from East Sussex to Crystal Palace and back down to Brighton, for the 2022 HCVS London to Brighton Commercial ve
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Wina Massey 35 Deluxe!
IN SUPPORT OF BEFORE Type: 35 Deluxe Engine: Perkins 3-152 diesel; 37hp at PTO Transmission: 6-speed H/L Weight: 1,454kg Fewer than 3,000 hours on the clock The tractor is undergoing a thorough service by restoration specialist Ben Phillips Just £5 p
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Wortley Top Forge Miniatures
PART TWO Paul left the industry at a time when, he says, British manufacturing began to decline. He eventually retrained as a social worker. Retirement brought him back to engineering. He built and equipped a small workshop and began re-learning his
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Steam Survives In Staffordshire
PART 2 Between the two engine houses stands the boiler house which originally contained five boilers supplied by Stevenson of Preston. These were replaced with five identical Lancashire boilers with two firetubes which continue to provide the steam a
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The Very Best Of Springtime Reading!
From the pages of 'The Home Shop Machinist' come full drawings and building instructions for four IC engine models from Doug Kelley. All four are scale models and are: The Snow, a Tandem, Double-Acting Engine, the Two Cylinder Nash, the Bruce Macbeth
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A -z Of Steam Vehicles
If Nick has missed some out, please do supply us with information. John Bange of Edwardsville, Illinois, USA patented his Mountain Runner in 1873 which he claimed with its two steam domes and compartmentalised boiler to be fast and agile on undulatin
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Vintage WORLD
Got a story?: Contributions welcomed by Derek Rayner, email: [email protected] By post: Old Glory, Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL Some years ago, in September 2013, OG 283 carried a photograph of a Mi

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