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transmitting to coming generations the expertise required to preserve and run these machines. The trust was formed as the result of the acquisition of the Robey Tandem Steam roller No 42693 which was rescued from a children's playground in 1983. This was the first engine to be owned and restored by the Robey trust. The Trust also possess other steam rollers including a Tri-tandem No 45655. This engine was built in 1930 and was working for long enough to help construct
Britain's first major motorway, the M1. The Trust also has in its collections stationary engines and a Robey 6-ton Steam Wagon (no 42522) made in 1924. The Trust holds a growing archive of historical and technical publications, drawings and photographs and is always pleased to receive items to add to the collection or to copy and return. A 'Robey Register' is being compiled to record details of Robey manufactures known to exist worldwide.
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Foundry, on Monday 1st sent off for the Crimea a tenhorse power high pressure portable steam-engine. It single-cylinder engine, and ……would be adapted to bear the rough usage it will have to encounter. It understood that to be put to the various purposes
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A second test used two four-wheeled trucks, each weighing three tons and carrying loads of two tons. The 'Advance' was then driven up
Canwick Hill, to the south of Lincoln a gradient of one in eight. The purpose of this experiment was to show the capacity of the Steamer for drawing heavy loads on
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was of the more conventional type and around 1879 Robey's made a number of Box's Patent
Traction engines. Box's Patent engines had an ingenious device to raise the rear driving wheel of the traction engine and these engines were used particularly for longer distance road transport. Robeys continued
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Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Show. Threshing machines continued to be made until the 1930s and were often sold with portable engines or traction engines to drive them. Threshing machines developed little in design over this period. They were often also sold with
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Barracks Fabric Printing Co Ltd, Lower Heys Mill, Black Lane, Macclesfield. The last working steam engine in the textile industry in the UK. Twin cylinder diagonal driving a calender. Built by Robey of Lincoln in 1913. Stopped 1995 and removed to Dingles museum in
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During the First World War considerable additions were made, including new workshops on the
Canwick Road and on the Coultham Street side. Some were to designs by the architect F. W. Horton. A new power house with chimney was added in 1915 A shop and offices for aircraft production were added on
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Lincoln and by 1865 were employing 114 men. The works covered a total area along Canwick Road of seven acres and around 1870 the name of Perseverance Ironworks was changed to the Globe Works. The layout of the works is shown in a print of 1879 The
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Richardson. In 1893 Robey & Co became a limited company. By 1913 Robeys were makers of steam motor wagons, tractors and ploughs and in the First World War manufactured aircraft. The company was purchased by
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versions. A large proportion were exported. These included three to Vienna and others to Ireland, Italy, Greece, Moscow, New Zealand, Australia and Chile. A further Thomson steam vehicle was built in 1877, but apart from traction engines, Robeys appear to have discontinued making
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portable to become self-propelled by fitting a long driving chain between the crankshaft and the rear axle. Lincoln manufacturers rapidly developed this idea. Robey's first design was to develop a traction engine steered by a man in front of the boiler. This was displayed at the
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and Workmen Mess rooms were built on the opposite side of Canwick Road. The main entrance on Canwick Road, surmounted with a globe above the door must date from about 1910. The site was developed over the next few years. A cooling tower was built in 1912
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ordinary roads and was successfully accomplished. A later test in July, 1871, used another road steamer, which was made to draw two large omnibuses, filled with passengers, from Lincoln to Grantham, and the trip was completed satisfactorily.
320:, using his patented rubber tyre, and were driven by a vertical boiler. Thompson's steamers were intended for drawing passenger vehicles or for heavy haulage on roads. The first of these was the ‘‘Advance’’, commissioned by the
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and moved their premises by 1856 to Canwick Road, Lincoln. Another partner, Thomas Gamble, joined the firm and Scott resigned in September 1856 to found his own manufacturing company in Manchester. The company then became
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and machinery of every description in Rumbold Street, Lincoln. They were joined by George Lamb Scott, but in 1855 Watkinson, who had previously worked for
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and the illustration shows the traction engine towing a thrashing machine. At the same Exhibition Benjamin Dutton Taplin who had an iron foundry by
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