rogerclarke

Yes Daniel, would have been great to see Emily Anne at Rickmansworth, we always had good fun there, President was there one year when we were there and we were going to do the tug of war together but the Black Country Museum stopped it, great shame.

Wow yes thats great, I am so pleased you let us know. I had Swallow for 10 years. Please let us see the finished project, I would be most interested. If you want to know more about the history of Swallow just email me 'coralpress@btconnect.com' and I can tell you lots more and have plenty of pics. Many thanks

Yes she used approx 20L an hour using an industrial oil burner boiler, so use to steam for about 10 hours a day, the boiler was a 600 lbs/hr boiler and just about kept up with the engine requirements, so was burning most of the time, she had a 1250L desiel tank up front with a 2000L water tank up front as well, when both were full she was a bit bow heavy. When I brought her she was laid up in Thorne, near Doncaster, brought her down to Harefield and used 2300L of fuel but it was only 33p/L then. When I used to go to the Rickmansworth festerval worked it out at approx 7-8 galls to the mile, a bit thirsty, BUT great fun.

Hi I owned Swallow for 10 years and sold her to the guy up in Rugby who seems to have cut her up and sold the back end on ebay but did not see any steam plant with it. Shame she was a great boat, slow and used 200L of desiel a day so was a bit expensive to run, all she needed was a new bottom plate and the steam plant would go on for ever, the boiler was good and had her tested with the SBA every year. Yes I was the one with the pub in Chipperfield and had a number of other steam loco's and traction engines and vintage tractors. If there is any more info required please let me know. Regards Roger