This is a photograph that I took
at the Pallot Steam, Motor & General Museum in Jersey in May 2013.
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It’s 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.'
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