Fawley Hill Vintage Transport Festival (25th - 28th August, 2023)
This is one of a series of pages which I have uploaded to illustrate facets of steam rallies we have attended in the UK. Such events occur all over the country in the summer months, they are easily found by using your favourite search engine and may have anything between a handful of steam engines and hundreds (as at the Great Dorset Steam Fair which could probably be fairly described as having an excess of riches). Click here for the overall index for 2023.
One of the best steam rallies I have attended was the Fawley Hill Rally in 2014 designed to celebrate the 70th birthday of Judy, the wife of the now late Bill McAlpine. This event was styled as a 'Vintage Transport Festival' for the National Transport Trust in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support and priced accordingly. Originally scheduled for May, it was postponed owing to 'poor ground conditions' and while the late August Bank Holiday with GDSF cancelled might have seemed a good idea at the time, the steam element attendance at least was well below what might have been expected. Indeed almost half the engines had attended the Stoke Row rally nearby in June so when Paul Gilbey attended on the Friday, he encountered a somewhat muted atmosphere. Of the engines present, the most significant one was the newly 'original' Kemna gun tractor which I had seen at Banbury in 2018 as rebuilt as a steam roller.
Steam Rollers
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Maker |
Number |
Registration |
Notes |
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11670/1926 | SN 3875 |
Great
Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture Castle Combe Rally 2023 Picture |
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Fowler | 17950/1930 | CYY 424 |
Stoke
Row Rally 2018 Picture Stoke Row Rally 2019 Picture Stoke Row Rally 2022 Picture Stoke Row Rally 2023 Picture |
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Iroquois | 8170/1922 | BF 5418 |
Fawley
Hill Rally 2016 Picture Stoke Row Rally 2018 Picture Stoke Row Rally 2022 Picture Stoke Row Rally 2023 Picture |
General Engines
Ploughing Engine
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Maker |
Number |
Registration |
Notes |
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McLaren | 1541/1919 | HO 5832 |
"Avis" South Cerney Rally 2013 Picture Old Warden Rally 2013 Picture Fawley Hill Rally 2014 Picture Fawley Hill Rally 2016 Picture Old Warden Rally 2016 Picture |
Steam Wagons
Showman's Engines
Crane Engine
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Maker |
Registration |
Notes |
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Burrell | 3197/1917 | AB 8904 |
"Old Tim" Somerset Show 2015 Picture Somerset Show 2017 Picture Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture Abbey Hill Rally 2022 Picture Great Dorset Steam Fair 2022 Picture |
Steam Car
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Maker |
Registration |
Notes |
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Stanley | BF 9795 |