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Traction Engine Sites

Websites listed below hold archive information on steam road vehicles and are a useful source of reference to specific manufacturers or types of engines.

If you cannot find what you are looking for here, please try the Archive Search page which gives some alternative online catalogues, as well as tips for successful searching. Alternatively, post a question on Traction Talk.

Record offices and Museums

The Museum of English Rural Life

Includes business records from many dealers and contractors as well as manufacturers. More extensive archives are held for John Allen, Bomford & Evershed, Cooch, Fowler, Marshall, Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Reeves, Wallis & Steevens and Wantage Engineering Company.

Cheshire and Chester Archives

Foden records, including business archives.

Milestones Museum

Records of Hampshire engine builders, in particular Tasker and Thornycroft, including photographs, drawings and business archives.

Lincolnshire Records Office

Source for Aveling Barford, Clayton & Shuttleworth, Duckering, Foster, Marshall, Robey and Ruston.

Norfolk Records Office

Business records and drawings for Dodman and Savage.

Suffolk Record Office

Extensive archives on Garretts.

Historical Reference

Dodman and Savage

Part of Norfolk Museum Service, brief history and photographs of Alfred Dodman & Co Ltd and Savage Ltd, both of King's Lynn.

Fowell

Family history site containing brief history of the firm C.J. Fowell & Co. Ltd. and biographical details of the Fowell family.

Paxman Company

Historical information on Paxman Company covering the period when steam engines were manufactured.

The Robey Trust

Brief history of Robey & Co Ltd, with contacts for more information.

Sentinel Drivers Club

Archive information on Sentinel Ltd.
  

Clubs and Societies

National Traction Engine Trust

The NTET provides service, education and expertise on all aspects of steam preservation. Extensive links to Traction Engine clubs can be found here.

Road Roller Association

Archive information on roller manufacturers and usage

Steam Plough Club

Outlines the history of steam ploughing.

East Anglia Traction Engine Society

Publishes various books on road steam engines.

Technical Websites

Lord Lascelles

Technical information on Burrell Showmans engine.
  

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