[Leica] Steam road vehicles in BW

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Douglas Sharp wrote:

Need I say that I like them? particularly William V.

I like the view through below the nameplate to which you are drawn,but it 
isn't 
such that you ignore the machinery,

Where were they taken? I will have to go hunting...I got some good ones at 
afair 
in Paris a few years back, but taken on an

Ol***** mu-1!

thanks for showing them,


Peter

I seem to have started something!



> Very old shots, 20+ years, the colours were faded and from the time when 
> Fuji was much too vivid anyway.
> The only solution - converting them to BW.
> 
> Colossal Fowler ploughing engine, shot in a shed
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image7_1_edited_1
> William V, a road locomotive converted for fairground use, the power 
> take-off is running a generator mounted above the nameplate
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image6_1_BW_edited_1
> A Clayton and Shuttleworth agricutural engine running a threshing machine
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image5_3_edited_1
> A Foden steam lorry
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image3_6_BW_edited_1
> William V Showman's engine conversion
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image3_5_edited_2
> Fowler of Leeds road roller, some of these are actually still in use 
> around the UK
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image2c_BW_edited_1
> William V, in classic Fairground Livery
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image2_7_BW_edited_1
> Fowler Lion, King Carnival Showman's Engine with chimney extension 
> attached, to avoid smoking out the fairground and to increase the draught.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Image2_6_BW_edited_1
> 
> 
> Hope you like them
> cheers
> Douglas
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