There were, I think, still steam-powered road rollers when I was a boy. Steam-powered farm equipment had vanished though. Whereas sur le Continong I saw fields being ploughed with horses.
dearieme - I remember the rag and bone man having a horse and cart, but don't remember steam-powered road rollers even though I always called them steamrollers. I recall haystacks in fields though, they seem to have disappeared completely.
djc - I didn't see a horse-drawn baker's van or milk float but I do have a very vague memory of a horse-drawn brewer's dray. That would be the fifties.
Sobers - thanks for the link, it reminds me of a video I watched some years ago of a Chinese peasant using something similar to supply a domestic gas stove. It was based on woody waste rather than tree wood but it worked in a similar way.
I remember gazing in awe, when I was two, at an Aveling Porter steam-roller working on the main road into Bramhall where we lived. Later, at age five, I watched from the garden gate as the two Fowler engines passed up the street to plough the fields for the day in Hertfordshire. Still later, at my Grandma's in Chalk Farm London, I saw the 'rag and bone' man come down the road on his horse and cart, crying out something undecipherable. Have I got the treble?
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There were, I think, still steam-powered road rollers when I was a boy. Steam-powered farm equipment had vanished though. Whereas sur le Continong I saw fields being ploughed with horses.
dearieme - I remember the rag and bone man having a horse and cart, but don't remember steam-powered road rollers even though I always called them steamrollers. I recall haystacks in fields though, they seem to have disappeared completely.
Just the thing for a London taxi, although Khan will soon be banning the burning of wood.
Sam - yes, it'll be pedal power in the end.
c1960, the rag & bone man with horse and cart, the baker's horse-drawn van, the milkman had a milkfloat.
I think I'd prefer a wood gas truck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_pLGhX0FK8
djc - I didn't see a horse-drawn baker's van or milk float but I do have a very vague memory of a horse-drawn brewer's dray. That would be the fifties.
Sobers - thanks for the link, it reminds me of a video I watched some years ago of a Chinese peasant using something similar to supply a domestic gas stove. It was based on woody waste rather than tree wood but it worked in a similar way.
I remember gazing in awe, when I was two, at an Aveling Porter
steam-roller working on the main road into Bramhall where we lived. Later, at age five, I watched from the garden gate as the two Fowler engines passed up the street to plough the fields for the day in Hertfordshire. Still later, at my Grandma's in Chalk Farm London, I saw the 'rag and bone' man come down the road on his horse and cart, crying out something undecipherable. Have I got the treble?
Tammly - interesting, I would have gazed in awe too and yes you do get the treble.
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