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February/March 2025 Digital Magazine

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11 Feb 2025

The Standard Cream Separator Engine

I think it would be fair to say that with the vast majority of stationary engines that we see in preservation were intended to be used as a multipurpose prime-mover capable of performing a wide array of duties. However, there were a small number of...

10 Feb 2025

#236 December/January

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01 Dec 2024

The Re-Restoration of a 1925 John Deere “Spoker” D

You first heard from me several years ago when I wrote about an R Model John Deere that I had restored for a family from North Star, NSW, while I was living at Goondiwindi, QLD. Following on from this restoration, I first heard the name Peter Sands...

06 Nov 2024

Barford & Perkins Motor Roller

Unlike years ago, when the Kent rally summer season sported at least six big steam shows across the county, today only one survives. The Weald of Kent Steam Rally was held over two days this year on 3rd and 4th August in the centre of the ‘Garden...

31 Oct 2024

Lives Of The Engineers: Goldsmith & Renshaw

This article covers two lesser-known Melbourne engineers who operated both in partnership and separately, one of whom would go on to make minor inroads into the locally-built portable engine market. John Charles Renshaw was born in June 1849 in...

23 Oct 2024

Our Little HG42 Cletrac Oliver Crawler

Dale and Karen purchase their HG42 Cletrac crawler Dale fell in love with this little crawler as soon as he saw it at the Toowoomba Swapmeet but, sadly, it already had a ‘SOLD’ note on it. He’d made the decision to drive up on the Friday...

14 Oct 2024

1920 Model T Ford Truck fitted with Fordson tractor conversion

This story is of an exhibit displayed at the National Rally in Naracoorte, SA, in 2005. It was kindly loaned for the rally by my niece. A few years passed, then , in 2008 we accepted an offer to purchase the machine, as it had been in the family for...

11 Oct 2024