Robey Traction Engine

When I attended the historic car meetings at Silverstone in the 1990s there was always a sprinkling of old buses and commercial vehicles on the infield at the far end of the paddock, and this is one that I photographed at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting in July 1995.

It's a Robey Traction Engine and there's no mention of it in the programme of the event, but Robey produced traction engines from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century. I would estimate that the one here dates from the years immediately preceding the First World War that started in 1914.