[modeleng] Re: Great Dorset Steam Fair
- From: "Clif Walker" <clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:56:18 +0100
Hi All,
I think that a lot of the equipment was still in use about during the war.
I can remember the odd steam lorry and steam roller still being in use in
the late 1940's.
Probably they were still useful owing to the shortage of Oil at the time and
as coal was easily available.
Regards
Clif
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Great Dorset Steam Fair
> Lovely equiptment, very good photos. I hope the lorry
> in the first photo is in the process of restoration?
> Question: how did these beauties escape being scrapped
> during WWII? Most everything we had in my area seemed
> to have been sent to the smelters for scrap iron.
> Were these hidden out? Reason I ask, it was against
> Federal law here not to turn in all your scrap metal
> for the war effort.
>
> Al
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> > I didnt attend this event this year, but someone who
> > did, Chris Bedo, the
> > owner of a Burrell, did, and took many photos.
> >
> > He has uploaded them to:
> >
> > http://community.webshots.com/album/183832818GAOYfK
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> > www.alanstepney.info
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