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.

SIR JOHN FOWLER COMES SOUTH OF THE BORDER

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FROM THE EDITOR

CAPTAIN COOK’S VOYAGE HOME • 2022 saw a ‘new’ engine grace the rally fields and roads of Dorset as Matt Farwell’s 8nhp Fowler B5 single-cylinder three-speed general purpose traction engine No. 9173 appeared after a life in New Zealand. Old Glory correspondent Paul Ritchie takes up the story of the engine’s history and its return to this country.

SWANLEY MAKES PROGESS

CLIFTON RUBBER CELEBRATE 50 YEARS

SUSSEX STEAM ENGINE CLUB’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY ROAD RUN

41ST SLAIDBURN STEAM & VINTAGE VEHICLE DISPLAY

HCVS DRIVE IT DAY 2023

MAJOR DONATION ENABLES RESTORATION OF FODEN NO. 2012

NEW CLUB LAUNCHES FOR NORTH EAST TRACTOR ENTHUSIASTS

STEAM TRACTION WORLD INVESTS

GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY UPDATE

£1M BIRTHDAY BOOST FOR TS QUEEN MARY

MORRIS LUBRICANTS’ SIMON HOLROYD: OUTSTANDING HERITAGE STEAM EXPERTISE IS ALWAYS ON HAND!

TRACTOR FEST TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF JOHN DEERE

MODEL NEWS • Mike Neale takes his monthly look at recently released diecast and resin models of tractors, trucks vans, ambulances and fire engines in 1/16, 1/18, 1/43, 1/50, and 1/76 scale.

BEAMISH A BIG HIT • David Reed visited Beamish’s two-day April Steam Gala, where the engines were to be seen in a number of period settings.

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ANNIVERSARIES GALORE AT GCR • It was just over 50 years ago now that a group of enthusiasts got together to revive a length of the former Great Central Railway in Leicestershire; with the organisation celebrating the first train running on these rails in preservation times, it made being here at the 7-10 April Easter Vintage Festival even better. The Easter Vintage Festival is said to be in its 11th year but some of us came here decades before for a similar gathering, says the editor.

BUILDING A FODEN SIX-WHEELER Part 3 • David Chapman continues the story behind his exacting build.

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. Letters published are not the views of the publisher or editor. Thank you!

OLD GLORY AT 400 • The magazine has arrived at the landmark 400th issue and the editor spends just a few moments looking back to 1988 and how Old Glory started 35 years ago now and at other significant dates in those heady early days of the magazine. Former Old Glory publisher Paul Appleton tells us how it all started.

SIGNIFICANT MEMORIES • Bob Moorman reviews some of the rallies staged during the Old Glory milestone years.

BOSTON LODGE WORKS - LOOKING TO THE FUTURE • Boston Lodge Works is probably the oldest railway workshop in the world that is still in use for its original purpose. It was developed for the Ffestiniog Railway on the site of the quarry that supplied the stone for construction of the famous Porthmadog Cob.

PIRACY ON THE HIGH STREETS • In the 1920s, London’s streets were full of colourful ‘pirate’ buses. Few survive today, but the London Bus Museum has just restored a Dennis to the pirate colours it last wore in 1929. Zack Stiling finds out more.

SAM WALLACE A FORGOTTEN TRUCK MAN • Many books have been devoted to...