Online Catalogue last updated 15th of September 2008
The European tour starts at "Great Challenge" in Lincolnshire as part of the World Ploughing Championships.
Many rare engines and the only remaining Howard "Farmers Friend" demonstrate the history of steam ploughing under real competition conditions.
Franco Risi ploughs with his pair of Fowlers ploughing more than 15 inches deep, he breaks up the heavy clay in the fertile River Po valley Germany.
We follow the Bavarian Steam plough crew from Schonbrunn with their powerful Heuckeset. Robert Coles with his impressive Marshall Niedertiefenbach. The Ackerkralle Cluboperates the oldest Marshall portable engine from 1881. Lanz in Mannheim built over 40,000 portable engines.
Two pairs of Ottomeyer ploughing engines with a total of 1800 hp and the mammoth plough became famous when ploughing moorland 90 inches deep.
A surprising find, a rare Tuxford & Sons portable engine in a museum at Paris, but the "Cuynot" from 1770 is something special. The oldest self-propelled vehicle in the World driven 30 years earlier by Richard Trevithick in England.
The enthusiast staff of the Charolais Museum in Bourgogne steam up a Societe Francaise and a Picard portable engine.
We visit Panningen and Almere for the Dutch steam scene. The last stop for the trip is Tilligte where a Dutch and a German fowler engine make a perfect pair when ploughing together.
Code No. 009964, $25.00