In the middle of the last century, as the industry moved away from steam traction ... output of more than one engine. The loco had four smaller-than-normal diesel traction motors that could ...

A homeowner has been told to stop using their garden to store stock cars and two steam traction engines. Neil Bowers lost an ...

This is a Mamod TE1a steam traction engine made by Malins engineers limited, Birmingham England, Circa 1972 I have collected toy steam engines for thirty years and this Mamod traction engine forms ...

A California inventor has also recently taken out a patent for a steam plow, the general principle of which, like those described, is the drawing of plows by a traction engine. We are not aware ...

Widely considered the father of the mobile traction engine, he devised and built self-propelled steam engines and being dissatisfied with using horse power to move engines from place to place.

"Someone with traction engine experience could comfortably come ... Mr Merrington added: "Day-to-day, it involves raising steam, maintaining the boiler pressures, operating the engine after ...