Click here for the
"Surviving Steam Road Engines" index page.
By January 2024 the museum's site returns a 'Forbidden
Request' to the link below.
The 'Museum of Old Machines' (Muzeum starých strojů a technologií)
(http://www.starestroje.cz/) is
housed in the former Vonwiller textile factory (www.starestroje.cz/fotoalbum.php?adresar=/foto/Vonwillerova%20textilni%20tovarna%20Zamberk)
in Žamberku in the
north-east of the Czech Republic and has a restoration workshop in Brno.
There are pictures of their collection on their Czech language website which
I have used in part for identification but it's very hit and miss. Help in
identifying the other engines or any further information would be very
welcome. The
photographs are by Chris Capewell and Nigel Mundy who visited Žamberku with a joint
LCGB / IRS group in September 2014 and I am grateful to Dick Eastwood for
information on the steam ploughing engines and ploughs and Derek Rayner for
further advice.
Steam Ploughing Engines
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Dick Eastwood writes - "This engine with the chimney base, winding drum and 2-pin rear wheel hub is a Z7S class – John Fowler 13294 built 1912 . This superheated model of the Z7 has a lump of casting mounted on the top of the cylinder. This is featured
on their web site http://www.starestroje.cz/stroje.oracka.Fowler.php.
It was on a plinth for many years before its recovery for restoration" |
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Dick Eastwood writes - "This engine is, I believe, a Fowler Z2 class engine – number unknown.
They have a Fowler 4-furrow AB plough and a Fowler 5-furrow AB plough."
Indeed they can be seen behind one of the
stationary steam engines below... |
Steam Wagon
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This is a Skoda-Sentinel product, 357 although it
actually carries the replica plate 346 which is preserved elsewhere
in the country. |
Portable Engines
There are quite a few of these, more are listed on the
museum's website.
Steam Rollers
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This is their Aveling and Porter (10342/1922), it
was sold here from the UK in 2011 - http://www.starestroje.cz/fotoalbum.php?adresar=/parni.stroje/Aveling-Porter.
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This is their Zettelemeyer - http://www.starestroje.cz/fotoalbum.php?adresar=/parni.stroje/Zettelmeyer.
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Derek Rayner advises that this is another
Zettelmeyer (672/1937) which belongs to someone in Bratislava which explains why
it is not listed on the museum website.
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Stationary Engines
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