I'm undecided as to whether Penfold and Molesworth are really ill or just steamgooning (I used to be indecisive, but these days I'm not sure what I am).
If you blokes are indeed unwell, take good care of youselves and enjoy a speedy recovery. If BSBers continue to fall like ninepins, were going to be "up S**t Creek without a paddle" as the Aussie vernacular so delicately puts it. (Find that on Google Maps! )
Motorman - Sounds expensive, but would like more info once you are fully awake, thanks
My pleasure Aiden, the firm only traded for two years1906-1908. Based in Preston, at the Olympia show in 1908 they exhibited a 3 ton chassis for freight or passenger application (which has to be the very one in your photo). It was oil fired with a "semi-flash" boiler developing 35hp through a vertical inline T-head engine and chain final drive. Unusual was a condenser instead of a radiator and exhaust gas was directed back beneath the chassis frame giving it the look of a bonneted petrol vehicle. Sadly it didn't catch on, hence the demise of the company.
Mike
... this offering may already have been posted before, if so. soreeee...
Lovely! Really clear and large - any idea where it came from?
...I LOVE the 1945 movie "Brief Encounter", not least for its steamy railway scenes! Fine direction by David Lean, and wonderfully restrained "British" performances by Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard....