As well as the railway engines there are other steam-driven vehicles in the museum:
This is a 1904 Ransomes, Simms & Jefferies traction engine, and the Pallot Museum website has this to say about 'Dolly May' - named after the wife of Lyndon Charles 'Don' Pallot:
'This engine was brought over to Jersey soon after the
Occupation, to be used for soil sterilization at La Valeuse Farm, St
Brelade. Fortunately, the ‘workings’
remained intact and eventually it was ‘put out to grass’. It was only when the scrap man had been
contacted on several occasions in the 1960’s and had failed to collect the
machine that, in desperation, the owners got got in touch with the late Don
Pallot, founder of the Steam Museum, and a deal was agreed for the sum of £12.
10 shillings.'
A 1922 Marshall Compound 12 ton roller and below is the information sheet about the machine:
A 1925 Marshall Compound 8 ton roller, with the information sheet below:
What this strange creature in a corner of the car park is I know not.
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