Steam Up! Traction Engines on Parade

In this volume of previously unpublished photographs David Reed portrays traction engine rallies from the late 1960s through to the early 1980s featuring showman’s engines, heavy haulage engines, steam lorries, tractors and road rollers. The book shows engines attending rallies at Andover, the Beaulieu fair organ festivals, Hungerford Old Tyme Steam Fair, Basingstoke Steam & Transport Festival and scrap condition engines at Hurstbourne. The Historic Commercial Vehicle Run is visited at Brighton, along with the Stourpaine Great Working of Steam Engines, the Hollycombe Steam Collection, the Great Dorset Steam Fair and Dingles Steam Village. Famous manufacturers that feature include Aveling & Porter, Burrell, Fowler, Garratt, Marshall, Sentinel and Wallis & Steevens.

David Reed enjoyed a 35-year career in the railway industry, including the Class 92 Channel Tunnel freight locomotive project.