Great Dorset Steam Fair
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The Great Dorset Steam Fair was an annual show featuring steam-powered vehicles and machinery held in Dorset, England. It covered 600 acres and ran for five days. It is regarded to show the largest co
Three road locomotives combine to haul a small diesel shunter (2007)
The steam fair in 2004
Night-time view of the line-up of showman's engines, in the fairground (2007)
Steamroller
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A steamroller is a form of road roller – a type of heavy construction machinery used for leveling surfaces, such as roads or airfields – that is powered by a steam engine. The leveling/flattening acti
Great Dorset Steam Fair
…the population of the historic town of Dorchester being only half that number). A speciality of the show is the display of traction engines and steam rollers performing the work for which they were designed. Such displays include heavy haulage, threshing, sawing logs, ploughing and road-making. The main arena…
Ruston Proctor steamroller (road roller)
Steamroller by Aveling and Porter
Aveling and Porter manufactured the first successful steamrollers. Pictured is an example from 1924
1925 Robey tandem roller #42693, now owned by the Robey Trust