Fowlers are my favourite makers, the B6 road loco is my favourite Fowler, and this is my favourite B6. An absolute beauty and a credit to the late Len Crane.
For that much steel rolling down the road it sure is quiet. Even when idling if it wasn't for the smoke, looking at a distance you wouldn't even know it was running. Magnificent
I absolutely love seeing this beutiful piece of mechanical engineering trundling along the freeway with all the cars going by. You are one lucky owner. Much love from the States
Wonderful to see the engine being well looked after 👍 Len was a great engineer from the Black country who I first met when he ran trucks from his yard in Oldbury West Midlands and also saw him many times at the Newhall street rally Birmingham Science Museum each May, the only street rally in a City Center location.
Should be all sorted by now. The LP side was fully fixed at the side of the road once a source of 3/8" Whit bolts was located and brought 2 miles down the road to where the engine was. The issue on the HP side was identified the next morning and the offending lubricator taken back to workshop facilities to sort. I believe the engine should be out at its next event as planned a week today. Both issues were fairly minor things - just at the side of the road with few facilities to hand and limited daylight it reached a point where it was better to phone ahead to the destination to request a lift rather than push on and risk causing damage which would take far more time to resolve.
Firstly thanks for sharing this clip. Would you know what type of crane work the engine undertook during its working life ? Was the crane original build or added later Thanks
Привет. как жизнь ? Интересуюсь паровой техникой , хотел бы создать , что нибудь но более современное. Есть от у вас возможность достать чертежи такого трактора или хотябы его двигателя ? Заранее спасибо .
I believe some old factory drawings of Fowler engines are still available. One person (Dave Eves) made a totally correct replica showmand Super Lion engine called "Onward" working from factory drawings.
It has been used for such stunts in the past. One year at the Welland steam rally there was an arena show which saw a scrap-yard car run over by an ex-military tank. The remains were then picked up by this engine to be taken out of the arena.
