Lifting sugar beet with steam cultivator, Monks House Farm 1921
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Aveling & Porter Ploughing Engines
Nos 8890 and 8891
Fortunately one pair of the typical 8nhp class ZTD engines survive at Thursford but it is many years since they were steamed.
Field Marshall Haig and General Byng were supplied in March 1918 to Frank Cooke of Spalding who named them after the two famous generals, Field Marshall Haig and General Byng.
They worked until 1936 when they were sold locally to Chatterton & Cooke Ltd and continued in use until the early 1950s. In 1958 they were purchased by a scrap metal merchant who re-sold them to the late George Cushing.
(From an article appearing in ‘Old Glory’ January, 2016)
One of these engines is shown in the photograph.
Geoge Chatterton, of Fulney House, and Col. Robert Cooke, of Otway House Pinchbeck, farmed in partnership in Tongue End.
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One Response
Aveling & Porter Ploughing Engines
Nos 8890 and 8891
Fortunately one pair of the typical 8nhp class ZTD engines survive at Thursford but it is many years since they were steamed.
Field Marshall Haig and General Byng were supplied in March 1918 to Frank Cooke of Spalding who named them after the two famous generals, Field Marshall Haig and General Byng.
They worked until 1936 when they were sold locally to Chatterton & Cooke Ltd and continued in use until the early 1950s. In 1958 they were purchased by a scrap metal merchant who re-sold them to the late George Cushing.
(From an article appearing in ‘Old Glory’ January, 2016)
One of these engines is shown in the photograph.
Geoge Chatterton, of Fulney House, and Col. Robert Cooke, of Otway House Pinchbeck, farmed in partnership in Tongue End.