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  1. Since 1973 Sheffield has had its own local steam society / club which is concerned not with rail but more with road steam and traction engines. The "Sheffield and District Steam Society" was formed in 1973 and has put on a steam rally almost every year since (floods prevented an event in 2007!) In recent years the name has changed to "Sheffield Steam and Vintage Club" to emphasise its interest in other aspects of local transport and not just steam. The early rallies were held at Oakes Park until a dispute with the council over Sunday trading forced them out of the City to Waleswood and later to Rother Valley Country Park, where they stayed until land was needed for a golf course. They then moved to Renishaw Hall and then to their current rally site at Rackford Road, North Anston. Their rally is held usually on the last weekend in June every year. The club has members who own steam rollers, traction engines and other steam road vehicles and they frequently display these at events such as those at Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Kelham Island Museum and Wortley Top Forge, thereby supporting other aspects of the cities industrial heritage. The club has monthly meetings, currently the first Tuesday of each month and usually in The Centre Spot on Jaunty Road S12. It also has a monthly newsletter for its members. Many of its members help support a second event, the ONCA rally (Old and New Charity Association) which takes place in May Bank Holiday. ONCA started in the same year in Mossborough, but has had rallies as far away as Thoresby Hall and Edwinstowe. Its last rally was in 2007 at Barlborough. The most recent June 2008 rally event at Rackford Road was successful. Here is a picture of the engine line up in the arena.
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  2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_9ck-uOgc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_9ck-uOgc
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  3. Excellent, "JonathanF", here it is for all who wish to search, Pinder Brothers of Sheffield used the trademark "Pinro". Kalfred
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  4. Not really familiar with this miniature engine at all At appears to be in 3" scale (thats 3" to the foot, or if you prefer, quarter size) It also seems to have the look of a Burrell single cylinder agricultural engine of about 6nhp. The miniature is not full completed as its boiler lacks its lagging and cladding as well as its final coat of paint (typically green on this sort of engine). The engine is being prepared for steaming. That extension on the chimney which is forcing smoke out sideways from the top is a "blower". This is a small electric fan, often powered from a car battery, designed to drag air through the fire grate, through the fire, down the tubes, into the smoke box and up the chimney to the fan. This will cause heat to be transfered from the fire to the water quicker causing it to boil and build up pressure to working value faster. The blower will be removed when their is sufficient steam to move away. Exhaust steam from the engine when it is running will then do more or less the same job.
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  5. This engine is Fowler works number 15462 made by Fowlers of Leeds in 1919, registered for the road as AD 9162 and carrying the name "AJAX" (The ancient Greek hero, not the cleaning powder). It is a 7nhp (nominal horse power) A9 class road locomotive weighing around 12 tons. It is owned by Mr. Middlewood.
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  6. Dave I have a friend who I met through a local forums photography group, he's a very keen photographer and he did make a visit to the steam rally. These are a few of Paul's photos that he very kindly gave the permission to post up on here. all photos taken by Paul Buckley
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  7. quote name='Gramps' post='26445' date='Nov 1 2008, 03:39 PM']I bet he's chuntering about the old buses not having wheelchair access Many people of my age will remember steam waggons in use on the roads in the late 1940s - especially the brewers drays. Not sure which was the more exciting to a small boy - a horse-drawn dray or a steam dray. I once saw a photo of a steam tram, but it may not have been a Sheffield tram, being used as a snow-plough I think; and I remember my grandfather taking me to some works in Attercliffe where he did his apprenticeship to show me a steam-driven tilt hammer; that would be in the late 40s too. There were 2 basic designs of steam wagon Gramps. The older one was the Foden design with an overtype engine, basically a direct adaptation of the standard traction engine design, and not much faster. The second was the Sentinel design. Interesting that you spell Wagon with a double g (Waggon) as this was Sentinels own spelling. Much more a lorry with their undertype engines and gearing and much faster out on the road, they could compete with Diesel lorries until the last days of steam. I can't find a steam tram in my rally shots, although there are steam trams on the railways (They look like a motorised shed on wheels like the one in Thomas the tank engine). However, based on the Foden design and manufactured by them here is a steam bus.
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