Old Glory

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.

ACTIVITY!

Meet the team • You are ALL welcome to join in, please do! If you have a story or pictures no matter what, do get in touch peterlove@madasafish.com Tel: 01323 833125.

Old Glory

Welcome

52 YEARS OF STEAM OWNERSHIP! • Old Glory talks to Terry Maynard of Hadlow, Kent about his life in steam and the engines he has owned.

BROWN & MAY RETURNS!

NEW BOILER BARREL FOR VIOLET

COMING CLEAN ABOUT COAL

STICK LOOKS AT BURNING ISSUE FOR HERITAGE MOVEMENT

AN ANTIQUE INDEED!

Heritage Transport Show to be rescheduled later in the year…

BOILER AND ENGINEERING SKILLS TRAINING TRUST - AGM 2021

DAME MARGARET WESTON

SLAIDBURN GOES AHEAD 26-27 JUNE

SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY’S SPRING STEAM UP TO GO AHEAD

GDSF 2021 CANCELLED

SCOTLAND’S LONGEST-SERVING TRANSPORT MUSEUM CHIEF TO STEP DOWN AFTER 38 YEARS IN CHARGE

WELSH SLATE’S STEAM LOCO FINDS ITS FOREVER HOME

BRIAN JOHN SIMS

MEDWAY QUEEN (HEROINE OF DUNKIRK) PLANS FOR 2021

FRIENDS OF QUEEN MARY WHET APPETITE WITH DINING SALON DESIGNS

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.

GET 6 ISSUES FOR JUST £18!

Letters

Baguley ‘Pretenders’ and others at Amerton

More unseen LCLR archive published for the first time

Vic Mitchell 1934-2021

LES KIRK ON HIS MINIATURES • The builder of the Dodman miniature featured recently in Old Glory tells some of the background to the engine and reveals his latest project.

THE FIRST HUNDRED TONNER • Nick Baldwin tells the story of a legendary Scammell which established the Watford company’s reputation for heavy haulage machines…

No. 1 IS 100 YEARS OLD! • These days steam engines reaching their 100th birthday is not uncommon, but due to Covid those reaching their milestone have not been able to celebrate it in the normal way, says Bob Moorman.

HISTORY OF STEAM SHOVELS • This fourth part of Keith Haddock’s A-to-Z review of steam shovels describes Ruston’s excavators built at Lincoln.

JACK FROST! • Thanks to Andrew West and these wonderful black and white pictures the editor has been able to piece together this ‘Jack Frost’ story, which has led from one thing to another - Featuring Caterpillar’s of course.

A HISTORY OF A PILE-DRIVING SENTINEL WAGGON IN AUSTRALIA • A fascinating story is told by Rohan Lamb, Archivist and Historian of the Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club (MSTEC), of a unique Sentinel waggon that was supplied in 1925 for a specific job in Melbourne associated with the city’s conversion of its early cable-hauled tramways to the more modern electric versions.

A MAFFEI ROLLER AT FREIBURG-IN-BRESIGAU

A FOWLER ROAD LOCO NOW TO BE FOUND IN IRELAND

A VISIT TO A FOLK MUSEUM IN ICELAND

BABY PECKETTS IN NEW ZEALAND

A VISIT TO THE AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM AT WANDLITZ

SALES

THE VERY BEST OF SPRINGTIME READING!

THE COLLECTORS’ SERIES • ON SALE NOW! STEAM ROLLERS

New Bookazines from Kelsey Media

Next issue