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Shire Album 281: Road Rollers by Derek Rayner

Shire Album 281: Road Rollers by Derek Rayner

Model Number: 9780747801535

£2.95 GBP

Well-surfaced roads are essential to a fast growing industrial nation and, as roadmaking in Britain improved from the late eighteenth century onwards, heavy rollers hauled by men or by horses were used to compact the surface. Steam power was first used to propel road rollers in the 1860s and thereafter there was rapid development, in parallel with that of the traction engine. Not long after petrol engines appeared in the alte 1880s, these had developed sufficiently to power first the heavy roller in 1900, by means of a single-cylinder oil engine, and then the lighter roller. This book outlines the early development of steam and motor rollers, with some technical details, and illustrates the different types. The firms which manufactured them and them men who owned and operated them are described and there is a chapter on some of the unusual and unique machines which were either powered by unconventional means or designed for specific tasks. Although Europe’s last steam roller was built in 1954, these powerful and unimpressive machines have not lost their place in the public’s imagination.

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