Great War truck Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Quite right. :-D :evil: :schocked: http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/Greatwartruck/Steam.jpg[/img] Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 have posted details of new book, that may interest you, Tim (too) in book reviews; Great Pic,............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 have posted details of new book, that may interest you, Tim (too) in book reviews; Great Pic,............ The old Invicta works is about 2 miles from me on St paul's Cray High Street, did they make military machines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 The old Invicta works is about 2 miles from me on St paul's Cray High Street, did they make military machines? That'll have been Aveling And Porter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 That'll have been Aveling And Porter. The Aveling & Porter works was in Rochester, not aware of them being at St. Pauls Cray though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 The Aveling & Porter works was in Rochester, not aware of them being at St. Pauls Cray though. I'll get a photo of the orignal sign it's still on the wall of the building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 29, 2007 Author Share Posted October 29, 2007 This one is a Fowler road locomotive that was built for the WD during the war and in this photo has its original name "Lafayette". However, this was not to be for long, as it appeared in this guise only a couple of times before being totally repainted in its post war Pickfords livery and carried a different name. A shame. Aveling and Porter made a number of steam rollers for the WD and one has just been restored in its military livery. It carries the large letters WE as opposed to WD (copied from a period photograph) which we understand is for War Engineers, or has anybody got a better explanation. I will look for a photo i took of it at Great Dorset. Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I am pretty sure that 6nhp tractor, 'Steam Sapper No 1' was an Aveling , purchased by the War Office in about 1870. Colonel Cromptons Thomson road steamers started work in India shortly afterwards too. Sadly, none of them has survived, unless you know different! Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 I am pretty sure that 6nhp tractor, 'Steam Sapper No 1' was an Aveling , purchased by the War Office in about 1870. Colonel Cromptons Thomson road steamers started work in India shortly afterwards too. Sadly, none of them has survived, unless you know different! Steve Think your right, there............Steve; followed by sappers no 2 & 3.( I believe) Got some info on these,.................somewhere........ :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Think your right, there............Steve; followed by sappers no 2 & 3.( I believe) Got some info on these,.................somewhere........ :roll: RE museum Chatham has models and info on those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 This is the wooden sign on the factory wall at chalk Pit lane St Paul's Cray. Does anyone know what was built/fixed here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bill Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 I have just googled the company and it seems to have been a paper manufacturer. However, their website has gone so perhaps they are no longer extant. Aveling and Porters original works in Rochester was 'Invicta Works' and this name was continued when the Company was reformed as 'Aveling Barford' in Grantham in about 1930. As a matter of interest, the new factory was built on land where Richard Hornsby had tested the first ever caterpillar gun tractor over twenty years before. I worked there for two years and we found a pile of bits of bren gun carriers left over from the war when clearing space for extra parking. All of the tooling for manufacturing the carriers was stored in a basement beside the river and left there when the new number 8 shop was built on top of them in the 1970's. Anyone fancy a bit of potholing? Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 WOW! what a find that would be??????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I have just googled the company and it seems to have been a paper manufacturer. However, their website has gone so perhaps they are no longer extant. Aveling and Porters original works in Rochester was 'Invicta Works' and this name was continued when the Company was reformed as 'Aveling Barford' in Grantham in about 1930. As a matter of interest, the new factory was built on land where Richard Hornsby had tested the first ever caterpillar gun tractor over twenty years before. I worked there for two years and we found a pile of bits of bren gun carriers left over from the war when clearing space for extra parking. All of the tooling for manufacturing the carriers was stored in a basement beside the river and left there when the new number 8 shop was built on top of them in the 1970's. Anyone fancy a bit of potholing? Steve Ah ha, the area is famous for paper works the Swan place at Swanley (where else) and Kickenors or something at Foots Cray shut down a couple of years ago the buliding is listed and some work just started on it. thanks for that one of those local 'Why is that there must check' thats never got done. thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 On the subject of Steam, have you seen this Foden. It is a genuine WW1 veteran and currently lives at Kew. http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/Greatwartruck/Foden.jpg[/img] CMV ran an article on it some years ago. Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 On the subject of Steam, have you seen this Foden. It is a genuine WW1 veteran and currently lives at Kew. http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/Greatwartruck/Foden.jpg[/img] CMV ran an article on it some years ago. Tim (too) VERY NICE.................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Thats some Heavy Trucking !!!! Only it's low speed saved the operator from what had to be a VERY stiff suspension Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlangham Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Tim, is the Foden viewable at Kew? As i'm rapidly turning into a WWI buff (i've learnt more about WWI than anything else since starting University, and spent more of my loan on books than anything else, including alcohol!), i'd love to see it, especially as WWI softskins are so thin on the ground Cheers, Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 Hi Rob It certainly was on view there and i am not aware of it having been moved elsewhere. The website of the museum is http://www.kbsm.org/ You might want to drop them an e-mail to see if it is still on view. Do let me know as i would like to go and see it as well. All the best Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlangham Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 E-mailed Kew and apparently ten years ago it was handed over to someone called Dennis Brandt at Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire. Looking at the website it's more of a posh wedding/corporate event style place, sent them an e-mail off using the general enquiry form anyway so will wait and see if I get a reply http://www.eastnorcastle.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 To revert back to the thread title, mine has 30.... (31 if you count the aux gen!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 Now you make me want to cry :coffee2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 To revert back to the thread title, mine has 30.... (31 if you count the aux gen!) Cor,...............clean in't it........... :whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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