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Four Furrow Plough & Steam Ploughing Engine
Four furrow plough and steam ploughing engine. Men working and groups of people watching.
Bullock Plough at work
Bullock plough at work. Date and location unknown. Photo purchased at auction in a collection of rural subjects in 1934.
Three Horse 1920s Albion Reaper at work
1970 recreation of a 1920s scene. Typical horse-drawn binding reaper. The bound sheaves were collected and up-ended to dry out in 'shooks' of about a dozen sheaves. Part of a row can be seen on the right of the photograph. One sheaf has just been…
Three Horse Plough & Ploughman
Typical horse-ploughing scene.
PREVREF 2161 duplicate
PREVREF 2161 duplicate
Cultivator or Scuffler hauled by three Horses
Typical late-afternoon scene in almost any Cornish scene in the 1920s or '30s. The machine is a cultivator, known all over Cornwall as a 'scuffler'. The height of the tines is adjustable through the handle on the driver's right.
Clod Crusher hauled by three Horses
A horse-hauled clod crusher used for cultivation (used from about 1900), A typical country scene in Cornwall.
Threshing by Steam Engine Croust Time Roskestal
Three men (P Hosking, W Chapple and H Burrows) threshing
by steam engine at Roskestal. Croust time..
Machine owned by J&A Hosking St Buryan. See PREVREF 2065/6
by steam engine at Roskestal. Croust time..
Machine owned by J&A Hosking St Buryan. See PREVREF 2065/6
Geared Device
Geared piece of equipment or machinery
Sea Plow Cutting Trench for Cable
The Cable & Wireless sea plow at work cutting a trench for the cable on the seabed.
Cable & Wireless Copyright
Cable & Wireless Copyright
General view inside Swindon Rail Workshop
A general view of the interior of Swindon Works.
Swindon Rail Workshop Men looking at Crankshaft
Men looking at a crankshaft on a 1980 visit to Swindon Works.
Swindon Rail Workshop Diesel Engine
A diesel engine at Swindon railway works. 1980.
Anti Balance Plough 4 Furrow Pulled by Tract Eng
The plough pulled by two steam traction engines positioned at opposite ends of the field. Four men pictured.
Traction Eng Driving 1920 Marsden Stone Crusher
West of England Steam Engine Society's 28th Annual Rally. A Mardsen stone crusher built in 1920 and driven by John Dyke's Wallis & Steevens S/C Traction Engine 2672.
Great Fowler Steam Ploughing Engine
A Great Fowler blowing engine.
Control Levers & Trip Latches of Beam Engine
Ground Floor at Parkandillick showing levers and trip latches. Photo by Engish China Clay No.5198.
Belt Driven Stone Crusher
Belt-driven stone crusher with traction engine, with man working and small child in the foreground.