Great Dorset Steam Fair 2010

[Jeremy Rowland]

Well I finally made the effort to get to this event and thought it was well worth the effort too.
There was no as much plant there as I would of wanted to see but alas its good that there was some working plant on display.
There was a vast array of preserved trucks there, which I will post pictures of but I still have to re-size them and put them in the appropriate folders on my pc which does tend to eat up my time.
This event is a good event and there is a lot to see there, I met up with Martyn Williams who it was good to see and he has been attending this event now for quite a few years.
I will add to this post as I get the pictures sorted so please bear with me.

Jeremy

[Neversweat]

Great set of photos Jeremy - Can't wait to see the rest AND it stayed dry

Steve

[martyn williams]

Just back from Bournemouth and the Dorset fair.Great to meet up with Jeremy. Will post some photos when I transfer them.Had a great time with a drunken Austrailian at the hotel,also the bus driver got lost on the way back when he got to South Wales
Cheers
Martyn

[martyn williams]

Here are some photos,my favorites are the BTD6 Drott from 1961 and the Cat D6 2h.
Hywells TD8 seemed to develope a gearbox fault (the machine pulling the box) last year a steering clutch went bang on the TD8.
Not much plant this year,cost of transport I guess.
Click on picture to enlarge
Cheers
Martyn

[essexpete]

Thanks guys,I must pay a visit one year.

[Jeremy Rowland]

Here's a few of the many truck pics that I took, I will post more as I re-size them, also I will post a working sequence of shots of the RB dragline that was in operation.
Yes Steve the weather stayed dry but only just, it was threatening rain as I drove off so I reckon that was timed just right.
Glad you got back safe Martyn even if you had a bit of a mystery tour courtesy of one lost driver.

Jeremy

[bigkit]

Great set if pics Martyn and Jeremy. Shame I did n't get the time to go this year. The 8R looks great and the box to. Someones spent hours in the shed! I want to know how they manage it!

[martyn williams]

It was a great day out,needed another day to have a good look at everything.It was great to meet up with Jeremy and also bumped into a few friends that were visiting the show.I would have liked to sampled the atmosphere at night when everything is lit up.I think the Drott was restored and dedicated to someones memory.Will find out more on that.
Its a credit to the organisers,there must be a massive amount of planning to stage this event.
Martyn

[Jeremy Rowland]

Last set of pics for tonight as I'm going cross eyed
The ERF in the first pic is quite probably an ex-Calor transport motor as I fitted re-con 250 Cummins engine into its sister vehicle reg no DTF422V many moons ago when I worked for H Fellows Tpt, the vehicle in question was being used by G.C. Rickards of Moxley who are a local truck breakers and were using the ERF as a tow truck at that time.
Still got lots more pics to wade through so I will post more as I get through em.

Jeremy

[martyn williams]

The Mack rig looked very impressive
Martyn