AB GB Type GB1254 Built 1973 Reg OPT 595 at the Bill Etherington auction 14th June 2014. Sold to Beamish Museum
AB GB Type GB00530 at the Bill Etherington auction 14th June 2014 believed sold for scrap at £400
Marshall 8 Tonne Diesel Roller 91413 reg SY 8653 at Bill Etherington auction 14th June 2014. Sold to I. Craggs of Co Durham. Fitted with a Perkins diesel engine.
A&P 10921/1924 ‘Julia’ at Beamish
RRA Phoenix tar boiler at Beamish.
RRA Phoenix tar boiler at Beamish.
RRA grader at Beamish.
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Fowler 18877/1931 ‘Rambler’ at Beamish
Fowler 18877/1931 ‘Rambler’ at Beamish
Fowler 18877/1931 ‘Rambler’ at Beamish
Fowler 18877/1931 ‘Rambler’ at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Fowlers 18877/1931 ‘Rambler’ and 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
A&P 10921/1924 ‘Julia’ at Beamish
A&P 10921/1924 ‘Julia’ at Beamish
Allchin 1131/1899 at Beamish
Allchin 1131/1899 at Beamish
W&S 8058/1930 at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
W&S 8058/1930 at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
W&S 8058/1930 at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Roadmaking Team 1 (Michelle, Helen and Seb) 2009
Road Making Team 2 (Michelle, Paul, Ant and Seb) 2009
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Fowler 18877/1931 ‘Rambler’ at Beamish
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Discovery Museum Newcastle
Beamish water cart
Beamish water cart
Fowler 15490/1920 ‘Fiddler’ at Beamish
Road grader at Onslow Park
Road grader at Onslow Park
Towed roller at Cheffins Billy Etherington sale
Steam roller headstock and front roll converted to towed roller at Cheffins Billy Etherington sale
Beamish road grader
Beamish road grader
Beamish heavy duty horse drawn stone cart with removable greedy boards and tipping body
Beamish heavy duty horse drawn stone cart
AB171 Shropshire
AB171 Shropshire
AB171 Shropshire
AB171 Shropshire
AB171 Shropshire
AB171 Shropshire
A Rochester built A3 – note the deeper frame section.
The Rochester era (a brief period of time in the Barford story) is demonstrated by the wheel type handbrake and quick reverse gearbox.
This fuel tank is very unusual – a long range variant perhaps?! It results in a shortened bonnet, fuel tanks usually being enclosed within the engine bay.
AB 270 of the early Grantham era (possible later assembly of Rochester components?) with camel hump type fuel tank. Dispatched 10/10/1934. Described on build sheet as having new pattern steering (i.e. non-chain). Note it is a Quick-Reverse type.
Barford T Series catalogue cover May 1929. Note red livery, black bonnet and alloy radiator.
A3
A Series Specification
A Series
A Series catalogue cover
A Series interchangeable wheels
A 2 1/2 Series Specification
A Series PTO
A3 Series Mowing option
A3 Series Grass Rollers
A Series Options
A 21/2
A2 and A3 Series Specification
A3 Series
A4 and A4Q Specification
A4
A Series engine details
A Series controls
A Series crated for export
Testing the repaired radiator. Patched up for now and with a couple of leaks still evident…
The fairly tired radiator has been repaired for further use (pending a full rebuild one day). The core is sound, though the header joints have shown some failure along previous repairs. Seen here being tested.
A 2 1/2 production line
NN 018 of 1930.
Period 2 (late)
Period 2 (early)
Period 3
Stratford Road, Birmingham, with an A Series roller. A rare postcard view of a motor roller…
The original postcard sepia image.
QQ061 Reg FL9973, Lancashire County Council No.10 seen in Whalley on the 27th March 1934. Note the canopy/awning. From RRA Editorial Archive
Tempoary use of a seat from QQ072
The ‘& Perkins’ has been removed from the rear frame stretcher casting
PP 012 – a very original looking A3. Note the canopy, the Barford &Perkins name on the radiator header and the ‘Peterborough’ name cast into the rear fame stretcher (they more usually say ‘Barford Perkins’).
I would very much like to contac the owner of this roller if anyone knows who it is? I believe it is usually in the Cumbria area?
Bradford Industrial Museum
Footbrake assembly
An older type of steering chain pull angle bracket is fitted to U092
Missing axlebox underkeep
Non original exhaust
Axlebox underkeep – extending to carry rear scraper angle (missing)
The driver from the clutch beneath the seat – note the two flexible couplings
The reversing section of the gearbox, usually hidden beneath a cover
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