Traction Engine Rallies
an appreciation over seventy years, 1950-2019
$84.00
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2023
Summary
Sparks Fly: A History of Traction Engine Rallies
How it all began - the story behind traction engine preservation and rallies. How rallies have developed from their early beginnings. Photographs from the rally scene over seventy years, mostly previously unpublished. Events that have now ceased, those still ongoing, and some ‘one-off’ events.
The commercial life of traction engines and steam wagons largely came to an end in the 1950s and early 1960s. It was also at this time …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399081672 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399081675 |
| Author: | Malcolm Batten |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Transport |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 1.07kg |
| Dimensions: | 282mm x 216mm |
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About The Author
Malcolm Batten
Malcolm Batten is a retired librarian with a lifelong interest in transport. He has been photographing contemporary and preserved transport subjects since 1969 and is the author of more than twenty books on transport history. He first took photographs at a traction engine rally in 1972 and has visited many such rallies, some still ongoing, others long ceased over the last fifty years. In this book he tells of their origin and the characteristics of different rallies.
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