Steam Roller Traction Engine (Aveling and Porter Ltd, Rochester, Kent)

Aveling and Porter Ltd

What is your favourite traction engine of all time?

Mention Aveling and Porter to any steam enthusiast and they will immediately think of steam rollers, although of course they were by no means the only type of steam engine built by this famous company. Avelings were however the market leader in steam rollers and the first to become involved with this type of engine. Travelling the highways of the British Isles during the 1950s and 1960s, you would be likely to find steam rollers still at work, including many Avelings. Rollers were the last type of steam power in regular use, until the diesel-powered alternative replaced them often as late as the mid-1960s.

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