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Aveling & Porter
Colin walsh:
Just a point of interest,ref Aveling&Porter,my uncle on my mothers side,One Bert Newman ,was a senior design draftsman at there Srtood works for many years.
castle261:
We had one of those Aveling & Porter Steam Engines - digging up the road - right outside our house
in 1938 - I went out to watch the man - putting the three spikes down - by a wheel - then the driver dug a trench - What for - Gas or main drainage - I expect.
Smiffy:
A cutting from Meccano magazine dated February 1961 featuring an Aveling & Porter roller that served the people of Oslo for 82 years!
castle261:
I stand- to be corrected - DTT - I remember a steam roller in Darnley Road.
DaveTheTrain:
Ah, now the one at the Brook is a 1925 Q Type Diesel Roller. It does look very steam like but was heavy oil.
It is started on air to save swinging it over. It originally sat in a rec at the bottom of Darnley Road, Strood until 1989.
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