Century of Steam Rolling
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- Author(s) Whitehead, Robert C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1975
- Pages 192pp; illus
- Publisher Ian Allan
- Place Published London
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Wide ranging account of steam rollers and steam rolling. For enthusiast historians. Chapters include; 'Evolution and experiments'; 'Climax and decline'; Associated plant'; 'Owners and operators'; 'Techniques of road rolling'; etc. The chapter 'Manufacturers and owners' [pp64-103] includes short profiles of the businesses, viz: Clayton & Shuttleworth; Robey & Co of Lincoln; Ruston & Hornsby of Lincoln; Marshall Sons & Co Ltd of Gainsborough; Aveling Porter of Rochester; William Allchin & Co of Northampton; Sir W G Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd of Manchester; Chas Burrell & Sons Ltd of Thetford; John Fowler & Co (Engineers) Ltd of Leeds; Richard Garrett & Sons Ltd of Leiston; Thomas Green & Co Ltd of Leeds; J & H McClaren Ltd of Leeds; Manns Patent Steam Cart & Wagon Co Ltd of Leeds; Wm Tasker & Sons Ltd of Andover; Wallis & Stevens Ltd of Basingstoke. Others thought to have made rollers are: John Allen & Sons Ltd of Oxford; Barford & Perkins Ltd of Peterborough; Alexander Chaplin & Co of Glasgow; Dunston Engine Works of Gateshead; Edington & Steevenson (sic) of Chelmsford; Fisken Bros, Leeds; Richard Moreland & Sons Ltd of London; Worsdell & Evans of Birmingham