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Books on Steam Ploughing

The Traction Engine Register
Published by the Southern Counties Historic Vehicles Preservation Trust
By Brian Johnson – 12th Edition
2016
Allens of Oxford
Jonathan Brown
(The Road Locomotive Society)
 
A Century of Traction Engines
W J Hughes
1959
A Rally of Traction Engines
Barry  Finch
 
Contractor and Factor
Pat  Freeman
 
Digging by Steam
Colin Tyler
1972?
Discovering Traction Engines
Harold Bonnett
 
Farming with Steam
Harold Bonnett
 
Fowler Steam Cultivating Machinery 1900-1930
Geoff Gilbert
1987
Lincolnshire Steam in Camera
Harold Bonnett
 
Lunnicks, Steam Powered Contractors
Gary Barker
2009
My Life with Steam
Joe Challis
 
The Major R.J.W. Ind Collection of Historical Photographs   
Henry Roskilly & Tony Hunt
Road Locomotive Society
1980
Ploughing by Steam:
A History of Steam Cultivation Over the Years
Colin Tyler, John Haining
1970
Ploughing Engines at Work
Barry Finch  
1962 2016
Ploughing Engines In Focus
John Crawley
1985
Ploughs and Ploughing
Roy Brigden, Shire Publications
 
Saga of the Steam Plough
Harold Bonnett  
 
Steam at Work, Road and Farm Engines
Anthony  Beaumont
 
Steam in my Family
John Newton
1988
Steam in the Village
R A Whitehead
 
Steam on the Farm
Jonathan Brown
2008
Steam on the Road
David Burgess Wise
1974
Steam traction Engines in Camera
John Crawley
 
Steam Traction Engines
Harold Bonnett
 
Steam traction-engines-
memories of the men & the machines
Harold Bonnett
 
St. Nicholas Works
Michael R. Lane
1959
The Compleat Traction Engineman
E E  Kimbell
 
The Development of the English Traction Engine
Ronald H Clark
1960
The European Traction Engine Register Leeds and District Traction Engine Club
David Parfitt, Derek Rayner and John Toy
2016
The Falls of Burbage Wharf
John Newton    
1995
The Invicta Works  
Michael R. Lane
 
The Story of the Steam Plough Works: Fowlers of Leeds
Michael R. Lane
 
The Story of the Midland Engine Works – Leeds
John Wakeham, Henry Roskilly,
Michael R. Lane
2017
The Traction Engine in Australia
Robert Butrims / Bruce Roberts
 
The Werribee Steam Ploughs   
R Butrims and B C Roberts
1987
Traction Engines at Work in Cambridgeshire  & the Isle of Ely  
Mike Dyson
 
Ward & Dale – A History of the Sleaford Cultivators
Buy Here
2014

 

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