Date:1900 - 1909 (c.)
Description:A Bomford and Evershed agricultural steam engine and workers, Salford Priors. 1900s [Fowler 8hp ploughing engine working an early prototype four-furrow reversible plough. The four-wheel carriage behind the engine has a winch drum driven by steam supplied by the ploughing engine. With both a winch drum mounted below the engine and the winch drum at the rear, work could be done using two wire cables. This could have been steam cultivation by a single engine on the 'roundabout' system, or for dredging.]
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A Fowler eight horse power ploughing engine working an early prototype four-furrow ...
A ploughing engine as used by Messrs Bomford and Evershed of Salford Priors. 1900s...
Street scene in Salford Priors, with a motor car and a bicycle outside the post ...
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Source: Heritage and Culture Warwickshire, Warwickshire County Council
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