An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of his Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine 3918 on display at the Gargrave Show taking place in the grounds of Eshton Hall in North Yorkshire on Saturday, 22nd August, 1981. As well as the traction engine on display, the film also features several agricultural competitions featuring sheep, cattle and shire or dray horses. The Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine 3918 emerges from behind trees driven by Alwyn Rogers and Ted Mell....

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of his Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine 3918 on display at the Gargrave Show taking place in the grounds of Eshton Hall in North Yorkshire on Saturday, 22nd August, 1981. As well as the traction engine on display, the film also features several agricultural competitions featuring sheep, cattle and shire or dray horses. The Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine 3918 emerges from behind trees driven by Alwyn Rogers and Ted Mell. They drive out onto the main road and along smaller roads heading towards Gargrave in North Yorkshire. A poster for the Gargrave Show taking place on the 22nd August, 1981 changes to a vintage car being driven past. Two men walk past a tent or marquee changes to a small boy looking over the Burrell traction engine in operation. A woman and small boy stand beside a couple who are each holding onto the horns on a sheep. Behind them more sheep inside small enclosures. Two older men walk over and look at the Burrell traction engine changes to a pair of shire or dray horses and their fowls being led past. In another show field cattle are paraded past a crowd watching from behind a rope barrier followed by the two shire or dray horses seen previously. A man in a bowler hat looks over a number of shire and dray horses standing in a line, he speaks with a colleague making notes in a pad. Rosettes are attached to the winning horses. One of the fowls seen previously is held on a lead before it is lead around the showground along with several other adult shire or dray horses. A group of men and women stand chatting is followed by a vintage car driving past. The conductor of the Skipton Band leads the brass band in a performance as horse-drawn wagons ride past in the background. Three wagons each being pulled by dray or shire horses are lined up, one of the wagons belongs to Samuel Smiths. The horse drawn wagons lead a parade around a showground followed by the vintage cars with the Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine 3918 at the rear. The film ends with the traction engine being drive across a bridge.