In this volume of previously unpublished photographs David Reed portrays
traction engine rallies from the late 1960s through to the early 1980s
featuring showman's engines, heavy haulage engines, steam lorries,
tractors and road rollers. The book shows engines attending rallies at
Andover, the Beaulieu fair organ festivals, Hungerford Old Tyme Steam
Fair, Basingstoke Steam & Transport Festival and scrap condition engines
at Hurstbourne. The Historic Commercial Vehicle Run is visited at
Brighton, along with the Stourpaine Great Working of Steam Engines, the
Hollycombe Steam Collection, the Great Dorset Steam Fair and Dingles
Steam Village. Famous manufacturers that feature include Aveling &
Porter, Burrell, Fowler, Garratt, Marshall, Sentinel and Wallis &
Steevens.