Page 1 of 1
The antidote to rising oil prices!
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:11 am
by Brian
Chaps,
Have a look here! This takes place this weekend.
http://www.strumpshawsteammuseum.co.uk/Photos.htm
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:03 am
by Oscar
Nice!!!
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:48 pm
by henk
How about the price of cools?
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:12 pm
by Brian
I am going to get a Sentinel Steam lorry! Ann can be stoker! At around 20 mph and on solid tyres should be a good trip down to Winterwijk.
Coal is about £8.00 a sack of 25kg. I can pick up some good Welsh Steam coal when I go to see MarkP. All my relations on my mothers side were all miners so I have a little "ancestral knowledge". They were all small people though, my mother was only about 5' and she was one of the tallest. My Uncle George worked "down pit" from a lad of 14 to 65. His body was a mass of black scars. He also used to breed ferrets.
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:29 pm
by henk
Brian,
That's going to take you about three weeks out and back home. But with a caravan behind it you would have a lovely holyday.
But I think Ann would not be so happy and would build up big arms.
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 2:38 pm
by Jos Cuypers
Brian,
no matter how long it will take to get to Winterswijk, just do it.
Only avoid using the highways !
Do they fulfill the EU Norm4 emissions ?
Jos
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:20 pm
by Brian
They have iron wheels with a band of rubber on them and lots of play in the steering. I think the smoking ban throughout Europe might be a problem.
On the other hand Fred Dibnah drove his engine around England and even to Buckingham Palace to collect his MBE (or OBE, i can't remember which).