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Great Dorset Steam Fair - Engines & Agricultural Gallery

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By james_bfp at 12:46 on 01/09/11

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 Fighting fire with fire - a steam powered fire engine pumping water
Fighting fire with fire - a steam powered fire engine pumping water
  • Fighting fire with fire - a steam powered fire engine pumping water
  • Shepherd Huts, many of them, all liveable.
  • The old tractors have as much charm as the vintage road vehicles
  • This one's occupied.
  • Making light(ish) work of some harvested wheat
  • One of the larger engines powering some of the agricultural machines
  • An elegant little engine.
  • You get some idea of how much of a boon this technology must have been to people used to doing the work the hard way.
  • The Hornsby-Akroyd
  • This is a stone mill by Blackstone & Co.
  • This "Victoria", built by Bristol Wagon and Carriage Works spent its entire working life in Walford Mill in Wimborne.
  • This little engine was quite hypnotic to watch, just rocking away.
  • In contrast, this was a steaming belcher.
  • More crop processing machinery - looked like the sort of thing that could cause a nasty accident.
  • Lots of the engines were in the business of pumping water.
  • The Blackstone Oil Engine.
  • Not operating, but still an extraodinary piece of equipment.
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