Old Glory is Britain’s best-selling magazine for steam and vintage machinery enthusiasts. Its blend of news, rally reports, exclusive features and archive material has provided inspiration for new restoration projects as well as giving readers a rare look at some old favourites.

Christmas at Old Hall Farm

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Old Glory

Welcome

ERNIE LUCAS AND THE LION • With Fowler showman’s The Lion all the talk at the moment, Rob Mullins looks back to its first preservation owner Ernie Lucas and so much more as he remembers it.

HISTORY

SANDY MACNAB MOVES ON

SALES • Our sales listing features agricultural, commercial, steam and bygones old and new, which are being offered at auction. Owing to Covid-19, there are no live sales taking place in the UK just at the moment, however, most are still going ahead online, with viewing by arrangement. If you have something coming up and it’s not currently listed, please contact us jaynelove@btinternet.com – 01323 833125.

LOCKDOWN GATHERING

Stourpaine gathering

AUTUMN SHOW

Great Dorset and Hollycombe among culture recovery fund for Heritage Grant recipients

Gerry Doherty - RIP

KMR goes down in style

EMRT LAUNCHES BRAND NEW WEBSITE

HERITAGE SHIPPING DRY DOCK FOR GOVAN

‘IF WE CAN’T FISH, WE’LL MEND OUR NETS’ – LATEST FROM THE BOILER AND ENGINEERING SKILLS TRAINING TRUST

BAM REVIVES OLD STOTHERT & PITT HQ

STEAM TUG KERNE ON THE SLIPWAY

TRANSPORT TRUST PLAQUE FOR TRANENT-COCKENZIE WAGGONWAY

MODEL NEWS • Mike Neale takes his monthly look at diecast and resin models of tractors, trucks and traction engines in 1/16, 1/18, 1/24, 1/32, 1/43, 1/50, 1/76 and 1/160 scales.

125 CELEBRATIONS

WORKING PORTABLE IN KENT

NEWS IN BRIEF

Letters • The editor is always delighted to receive your e-mails, letters, photographs and more on any subject you like! But please be sensible and courteous to everyone when you write in. Thank you!

CULTURE RECOVERY FUND FOR HERITAGE RAILWAYS

HRA AWARDS TO ACKNOWLEDGE LOCKDOWN ACHIEVEMENTS

IRELAND’S BUSHMILLS LINE CLOSES ‘INDEFINITELY’

OLDEST TRAINS ON NETWORK TO BE REPLACED • If you have something for this column please send it to: colin.tyson@kelsey.co.uk

CYLINDERS ORDERED FOR NEW-BUILD ‘COUNTY’

VALE OF RHEIDOL’S COMPLETES NEW CARRIAGE SHED

O&K’S ARE OK AT AMBERLEY

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Christmas Reading, Viewing and in the workshop

VICTORIAN FOWLER SINGLE STEAMS! • Bob Moorman was lucky enough to be invited to see 1873 Fowler 12hp single-cylinder No. 1908 ploughing engine of ‘top draw’ engineer Paul Ransley from Rochester at its second only steaming at Goblands Farm, Hadlow, Kent on Saturday 12 September.

Steam in miniature • Kerr’s Miniature Railway 85 Years of bringing delight hits the buffers

A ROAD STEAM PRESERVATION PIONEER • The editor looks at a new Old Glory special publication which, for the first time ever, brings together the colour slide collection of John Crawley, a true giant of the steam preservation movement. It has been put together by Colin Tyson.

The Manitowoc Story • Keith Haddock continues the story of how the Manitowoc Company endured the many difficulties that caused the demise of other American crane and excavator manufacturers enabling it to survive as America’s no.1 crane builder.

Ted Field - THE WORKING LIFE OF A PLANT OPERATOR

Baldwin’s about • Nick Baldwin travels back in time to look at some goings-on in Slough!

Damp og Nostalgi in Andelslandsbyen...