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This is a Glorious 1/2 Scale Foden Steam Truck

🕑 Added 2021-06-25 17:21:38 +0000 UTC

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GrayRaceCat

Ouch! By that measure I currently have THREE stationary engines! ALL Volvos!

Peter Lawrence

In 2005, I was in rural Northamptonshire in England and drove by a couple of scale steam vehicles trundling along the road. My relatives thought that I was bonkers when I subsequently described the encounter, but now I know that I'm not crazy! (Well, not due to this particular event anyway.)

That is right!

Took me longer than I'd like to admit to make the connection that I knew who Tanner was. He has video of me hanging out the window of a Fiat 500 Abarth as we chased UP 844 through Eastern Oklahoma :)

Thank you, it belongs over there really! And hey, if you get the alfa running, you will need a new stationary engine! 🤣

David Daley

It looks amazing. Seeing it on screen must’ve skewed my perspective as, like you mention, I’ve seen loads at my local steam rallies here in NW England. I really want a stationary engine to show but when I mentioned it to my wife she replied that I already had one…in my Alfa Romeo that hasn’t moved for 12 months. That hurt 😹

Robert is a bit of a giant too, which makes me and the engine look miniature!

I can confirm it is half scale. 13' long roughly. They are great kits, they are commonplace on English rally fields nowadays.

David Daley

Seems a lot smaller than 1/2 scale. My father did his apprenticeship as a boilermaker in the late ‘60s. Spent much of my childhood going to traction engine rallies with him. Would love one of these kits.