Traction Engines

These prints, published in 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn, were drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine. They are are c. 44½ x 35½ cm (17½″x14″) on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 gm/sm². Shown here are scans of the prints.
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Clayton & Shuttleworth, “Peggy”, 1904 (No 36336)
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Clayton & Shuttleworth General Purpose Engine 36336, “Peggy” (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
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Burrel’s “Finem Rescipe”, 1900 (No 2319)
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A general purpose, single crank, compound, Devonshire type engine of 6 n h p designed for an Essex farmer owner (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Foster’s The Little Gem, 1933 (No 14638)
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This is a late model of a 5-n h p agricultural threshing machine by William Foster & Co Ltd (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Wallis & Steevens “Eileen the Erring”, 1921 (No 7683)
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Wallis & Steevens from Basingstoke, Hampshire made this typical general purpose agricultural traction engine from the later years (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Fowler’s “Wayfarer”, 1920 (No 15563)
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This is the largest example of a traction engine and was evolved as a ploughing machine (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Wallis & Steevens “Goliath”, 1902 (No 2694)
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Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke bui;t this three-ton engine or haulage (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Aveling & Porter’s “LAURA”, 1927 (No 11997)
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Laura was almost certainly intended for export as it has a full-length awning and the Belpaire firebox is a large size to enable wood (cf coal) to be burned (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Foden’s “Mighty Atom”, 1932 (No 14078)
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Built for timber haulage in 1932 this model was used for moving logs from the felling site to the saw mills (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Foden’s “Sandy Macnab”, 1914 (No 4752)
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This road locomotive was built for heavy haulage of loads of 40 or 50 tons and was used by heavy hauliers (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Burrell’s “The Busy Bee”, 1914 (No 3555)
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This engine from the Burrell works was one of many sold to showmen during the last 40 years of the firm’s history (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Fowler’s “Carry on”, 1915 (No 14425)
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This engine was built to tow Howitzer guns in France in WW I for the War Department (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Sentinel (Shrewsbury) Ltd, Steam Lorry, 1929 (No 7954)
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This Sentinel machine appears to have gone through a series of major transformations since its original construction in 1929 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1961 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by V.M. Dunnett and Stanley Paine
Size: c. 44.5 x 35.5 cm [17½″ x 14″] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Printed on medium white cardstock weighing c. 146 g/sm²
Print is LARGE size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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The Brief Life of the Traction Engine

The first self-mobile agricultural engine was a prototype exhibited at the Royal Agricultural Show in 1842. It was built by Ransomes and May of Ipswich. However, a vertical boiler produced so little power it could only move itself. In 1849 an engine was built in Leeds which could move. If fitted with a governor, it could do stationary work. Working for Burrell’s of Thetford, James Boydell produced the first road haulage engines in 1854 (using “railway” wheels) which could handle loads up to 50 tons. In 1862 Thomas Aveling, the father of the traction engine (of Aveling & Porter, Rochester, Kent), established the basic pattern for these machines by fitting a long driving chain between the crankshaft and the rear axle. Traction engines were the only form of machine power for land or light industrial use but with serious limitations: water capacity limited range to about 5 miles; driving off-level moved water exposing the firebox to overheating, they were heavy and slow and soft land was inaccessible. Their heyday was the first decade of the 20th Century. John Fowler of Leeds reached its record production of machines in 1912.

The death knell for steam engines came in 1917 when, because of the war, Henry Ford sent the first 5,000 production models of his new Fordson F5 tractor to the UK then began production in the UK. The age of Traction engines finally ended in the 1930’s as petrol engined vehicles became more economic and tax penalties on steam engines discouraged their use.

This engine was built to tow Howitzer guns in France in WW I for the War Department (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

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