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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 2 mins 44 secs Credits: Ken Ellwood Genre: Amateur
Subject: Transport Industry
Summary An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of re-tubing work being carried out on the Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine 3918 owned by the filmmaker. Working inside a shed two men extract the old tubes before possibly trilling new boreholes for the replacement ones. The film ends with the work completed and the traction engine taking its first journey with its new tubing.
Description
An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of re-tubing work being carried out on the Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine 3918 owned by the filmmaker. Working inside a shed two men extract the old tubes before possibly trilling new boreholes for the replacement ones.
Two men look over the tubing inside a Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine parked in a shed or barn. Working together they use a hammer and chisel to extract one of the tubes from the engine. A second tube is...
An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of re-tubing work being carried out on the Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine 3918 owned by the filmmaker. Working inside a shed two men extract the old tubes before possibly trilling new boreholes for the replacement ones.
Two men look over the tubing inside a Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine parked in a shed or barn. Working together they use a hammer and chisel to extract one of the tubes from the engine. A second tube is extracted with Peter Ellwood standing beside several stacked sacked beside the door.
Outside the shed a parked Land Rover, writing along the bonnet reads ‘Walling Contractors Etc. Tel Gisburn 322. Tom Varley’. Two other men now watch as more tubing is extracted by the two men seen previous, both now smoking pipes. As well as the hammer and chisel an acetylene torch is used on the inside the engine to cut out other tubes.
The two men look inside the now empty engine compartment, working together the men use a screwing devise possibly to bore new holes for the replacement tubing. In a field children play on swings or play a game of football, back in the shed more hole’s possibility being drilled.