| Jaguar car enthusiasts from the Warwick and North Oxford region of
the Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club (JEC) joined the classic cars display at this
year's Banbury Steam Fair in Bloxham. The fair attracts a wide
range of vehicles and locomotives from all over the country. The
steam vehicles include traction engines, shining showmans' engines, hugh
ploughing engines (the "heavy horses" of the stream world) and steam rollers
from the earliest parts of this century, and a terrifying display of steam
powered saw mills with huge, basically unguarded circular saws.
The internal combustion engine had a large representation: a large commercial
vehicles meeting, with hundreds of entrants from ERF, Scammel, Foden ,
Seddon, Atkinson and others of a wide variety of ages, and another large
display of military vehicles. A large selection of tractors and agricultural
vehicles completed the diesel engine section, The classic and vintage cars
section covered a wide range, from 3 wheeled Morgan delivery vans, through
Range Rovers to Rolls Royce saloons, with Singer cars showing well in the
judging.
The showman's side continued with several fairground organs, a Wall
of Death and a fairground, whilst the static displays included a large
number of stationary gas oil engines, and a display of amazing models,
including several model traction engines and, I kid you not, a knitted
village. |
