An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood featuring the last council owned steam roller in West Yorkshire, a Fowler Road Roller 15824 The Dreamer, working to flatten the bitumen along a section of newly laid road on Westcliffe Road in the town of Cleckheaton. At the controls driver Jim Smith watch by both colleagues as well as three young boys. Title: The Last Council Owned Steam Roller in Yorkshire Title: Driven by Jim Smith Along Westcliffe Road in the town of Cleckheaton near the...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood featuring the last council owned steam roller in West Yorkshire, a Fowler Road Roller 15824 The Dreamer, working to flatten the bitumen along a section of newly laid road on Westcliffe Road in the town of Cleckheaton. At the controls driver Jim Smith watch by both colleagues as well as three young boys. Title: The Last Council Owned Steam Roller in Yorkshire Title: Driven by Jim Smith Along Westcliffe Road in the town of Cleckheaton near the junction of Bramhope Road the Fowler Road Roller 15824 The Dreamer (Reg: WT 1568) rolls back and forth flattens newly laid bitumen. Nearby four men in flat caps, possibly council workmen, and a fifth younger man in glasses and striped top watch the roller in operation. With the roller stopped and a cigarette hanging from his mouth driver Jim Smith looks over some of the engine’s valves and places a block under one of the wheels. Back at the control Jim increases power to the engine so that the camera can to capture the pistons and flywheel in operation. Jim climbs off the roller changing to him reversing it along a side street before moving it forward again over a section of bitumen. Across the road three boys stand watching the roller move back and forth. The film changes location with the roller reversing through an archway and in to a shed. Title: The end