Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2018
Date 03-Aug
Volume 221
Issue 4,592
Page 220
Category An Engineer's Day Out
Part
Title Museum of English Rural Life, Reading
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes Visits one of Britain's most important collections of rural industrial artefacts. Romany caravan, hand tools, Jethro Tull, seed drill, 1949 Land Rover Series 1, Lincolnshire farm box, hermaphrodite wagons, Ransome RHB plough, Hornsby's, carts and wagons, speed the plough, harvest home, Albion reaper, threshing machines, Ransomes' model by Bill Smith (A.F.W.Smith), double blast threshing machine by E.Humphries, elevator by Messrs Reeves, Clayton and Shuttleworth portable engine, 1/24 scale road locomotive by George A.Froud, steam lawn mower by Ransomes, haymaking, steam power, Titan tractor by International Harvester, 1937 Fordson N tractor, 'wee grey Fergie' by Harry Ferguson, tractors, 1953 Ransomes MG crawler tractor, dairying, reading room, 1920s milking parlour, cheese press by Carson, reference