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| sparky |
sentinel and marshalljust reading through the STN (Sentinel Transport Newsletter), when i came across a photo of a sentinel/marshall steam roller, marshalls bought a selected number on sentinel boliers and many other parts to create this great machine, which i believe is the worlds largest steam roller, it tells you all the information on this brilliant enigne i will put up pictures and some more facts soon, the person who wrote the artcle is a valid friend and the sentinel records holder so i definatley know he knows what he's on about 
p.s james i thought you would be quite interested in this piece of information 
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| James |
Aye! In the Marshalls- Britannia Iron Works book there is a couple of pages about it I think | ||||
| sparky |
yes the big four wheeled monster with the tiny verticle sentinel boiler in the middle  , ive never really heard about these becuase my main focus is really on the waggon side but there again in steam theres something new to learn every day 
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| James |
Aye you're right mate. I'll have a look through it tonight | ||||
| sparky |
yes if you can please post some information up about it
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| James |
Will do | ||||
| sparky |
cheers
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| TE1A_man |
Are these rare??? Because at this tractor show i went to there was a steam tractor with a verticle boiler and 4 big wheels on it... | ||||
| Roly Williams |
Re: sentinel and marshall
Is this the beast? http://rolysphotos.fotopic.net/p38401695.html http://rolysphotos.fotopic.net/p38401696.html http://rolysphotos.fotopic.net/p38401697.html |
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| TE1A_man |
 nvm, thats not what i saw.
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| Roly Williams |
OK. I've no idea what the pictures are of, but it sort of fits the description. Any pics of the one you saw? |
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| mc_mc |
Look's like an early 1900's monster truck!
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| Chris |
Blimey Roly, think your challenge is to make one of those beasts from meccano! | ||||
| SPOKESMAN |
What a contraption Roly!!
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| sparky |
its very simular ill find out from the records office and tell you if thats one, give me a waggon any day but these are strange! | ||||
| TE1A_man |
no, forgot the camera when i went to that show. but whetever it was, it looked like the pics you posted, exept it had much smaller wheels, and was quite quick, i had a hard time keeping up with it jogging. |
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| Roly Williams |
I've just found where I got those pictures. They were on the letters page of Old Glory Feb 2003. To quote from the letter:
"There were three of these rollers built by Marshall's, all using SuperSentinel engines and boilers. An article on the first of these rollers built for the Durham Water Board in June 1933 appeared in the Sentinel Transport News of September 1933. The letter from Mr H. D. Marshall to my father back in April 1968 gives details of the other two supplied to the Essex Water Board and the Corby & District Water Board in 1938." So, there you are; it is a Marshal with a Sentinel boiler. It was designed for rolling embankments at a steep angle, hence the strange design and the use of the Sentinel boiler. |