Year | 2020 |
Date | 19-Jun |
Volume | 225 |
Issue | 4,641 |
Page | 15 |
Category | An Engineer's Day Out |
Part | 2 |
Title | Milestones at Basingstoke |
Author | Roger Backhouse |
Notes | Takes a trip into the past at Basingstoke's living history museum. Thornycroft steam lorry, depth charge throwers, cars, X type lorry, Sturdy, 'Handy Billy', 1928 gas engine by Listers of Dursley, National Gas Engine Co., Romany caravans, classic clockmaker's workshop, the National Collection of Slot Machines (Penny Arcade), Laughing Sailor by R & W, the Drunkard's Dream, getting there, other places in the area with an engineering interest |