An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of his Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 powering a Foster Lincoln threshing machine at a traction engine rally taking place at Harewood House in West Yorkshire. As well as both the Burrell engine and threshing machine in operation, the film also features Dad’s Army actors Clive Dunn and John Le Mesurier who appear as special guests at the event. Standing atop a vintage flatbed lorry Dad’s Army actors Clive Dunn and John Le Mesurier makes...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of his Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 powering a Foster Lincoln threshing machine at a traction engine rally taking place at Harewood House in West Yorkshire. As well as both the Burrell engine and threshing machine in operation, the film also features Dad’s Army actors Clive Dunn and John Le Mesurier who appear as special guests at the event. Standing atop a vintage flatbed lorry Dad’s Army actors Clive Dunn and John Le Mesurier makes speeches to the watching crowds. Sitting nearby the Skipton Band; standing beside the lorry seven men dressed in Dad’s Army uniforms. A Foster Lincoln threshing machine in operation with two men working to load wheat or another cereal crop into it. Standing nearby three men and two women chatting, they turn and on seeing the camera smile. One of the women waves. The waste straw come off a conveyor falling onto children who are playing happily in the stack straw being formed under the conveyor. The Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 is attached to the thresher via a large belt providing power. A member of the Skipton Band climbs onto the footplate of the Burrell engine and Kath Ellwood explains its workings. A crowd gathers around the thresher as now three men work to load the machine with wheat. At the back of the machine sacks being filed with grain. Chaff is blown into the air from a pipe coming out of the thresher. The threshing machine now covered is pulled onto and around a showground by the Burrell General Purpose engine.