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Title: Traction engines
Post by: pink petunia on Saturday 01 December 12 06:27 GMT (UK)
Please could someone reverse this photo.It was  a slide I borrowed and somehow I got it back to front so all wording is unrecognisable
Thank you

pink petunia
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: chinakay on Saturday 01 December 12 07:18 GMT (UK)
Here ya go....what a wonderful old piece of the past! :)

Cheers,
China
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: Wiggy on Saturday 01 December 12 07:27 GMT (UK)
Trouble is - you still can't read the writing and the men's waistcoats are buttoned the wrong way!    :-\

Are you sure sure it was the wrong way before China turned it??     :-\

Just tried it - the writing is not back to front - it is upside down in original - so it really should be the original way.    ;D ;D

Wiggy
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: Wiggy on Saturday 01 December 12 07:38 GMT (UK)
Here you go!!  Haven't cleaned it - just tweaked the photo a bit.   ;)

Wiggy    :)
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: Tony Freeman on Saturday 01 December 12 09:27 GMT (UK)
Wonderful photograph ... cleaned, sharpened, made pole vertical and left it the original way round.
On a steep hill as chocks under rear wheels.
Well seen WiggyHobbes :-))
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: pink petunia on Saturday 01 December 12 09:32 GMT (UK)
Thank you so much you observant people. I was worried that I had scanned it the wrong way. I never would have thought of waistcoat buttons --of all things.
Wonderful work everyone.
Thank you.

pp
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: Tony Freeman on Saturday 01 December 12 10:24 GMT (UK)
I could not resist trying to colour this one  :)
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: chinakay on Saturday 01 December 12 15:36 GMT (UK)
Spectacular, Tony...great job!

Santa smileys ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: japeflakes on Saturday 01 December 12 16:26 GMT (UK)
Cannot compete with that brilliant coloured edition!


Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: Tony Freeman on Saturday 01 December 12 16:39 GMT (UK)
Quote from: chinakay on Saturday 01 December 12 15:36 GMT (UK)
Spectacular, Tony...great job!

Santa smileys ;D ;D ;D

Your welcome ... great fun doing it  :)
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: pink petunia on Saturday 01 December 12 21:14 GMT (UK)
Tony , thanks for the coloured version. The colours look perfect for the era. I love it.
Thanks also Japeflakes , all great restores.
pp
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: John915 on Saturday 01 December 12 22:24 GMT (UK)
Good evening,

I note youv'e all learnt to look at the buttons ;D ;D ;D ;)

John915
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: John915 on Saturday 01 December 12 22:32 GMT (UK)
Good evening again,

Looks like a couple of Fowlers up front, circa 1905/1910.

John915
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: pink petunia on Sunday 02 December 12 01:02 GMT (UK)
 John,
Fowlers, please explain.Am intrigued now.  :-\
pp
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: pink petunia on Sunday 02 December 12 01:28 GMT (UK)
Not being well educated in traction engines I googled Fowler and now know that it is a type of traction engine.
This photo was taken in NZ, probably Dunedin..
pp
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: ymfoster on Sunday 02 December 12 05:16 GMT (UK)
I did a cleanup & straighten also,  :)

Yvonne
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: escortmad79 on Thursday 14 August 14 17:37 BST (UK)
Neither are Fowlers, both are Burrell single crank compound traction engines, built by Charles Burrell of Thetford
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: thetowers on Thursday 04 September 14 16:37 BST (UK)
This photo was taken in NZ,

That would explain the big cordyline then.  I am not so convinced by the trees in the background.
Title: Re: Traction engines
Post by: pink petunia on Friday 05 September 14 23:08 BST (UK)
Gum trees??