An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood which features both the Marshall General Purpose Engine 54492 owned by John Ostle and the Burrell General Purpose traction engine owned by the filmmaker taking part in the several events during 1969. The film begins with the John Ostle’s Marshall taking part in the opening or re-opening of a public spring in the village of Long Preston. This is followed by Ken Ellwood driving his Burrell engine through the village of Carleton near Skipton as part of...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood which features both the Marshall General Purpose Engine 54492 owned by John Ostle and the Burrell General Purpose traction engine owned by the filmmaker taking part in the several events during 1969. The film begins with the John Ostle’s Marshall taking part in the opening or re-opening of a public spring in the village of Long Preston. This is followed by Ken Ellwood driving his Burrell engine through the village of Carleton near Skipton as part of Carleton Gala. Next the John Ostle’s Marshall is filmed being driven from Skipton to the Gisburn Steam Rally at Todber in Dorset where it and Burrell General Purpose traction engine are on display with other engines. In the final part of the film both engines are on display outside Skipton Town Hall as part of a model railway exhibition. A young woman sits at the controls of the Aveling and Porter steam traction engine 11839 Oberon, behind it the Burrell Road steam locomotive 3395 The Dalesman. A third smaller traction engine in operation its wheel and piston turning. A man stands beside a vintage steam lorry, the livery on the front reading ‘Tom Varley. Gisburn’. Beside the van the McLaren General Purpose Engine 787 traction engine Loughrigg which reverses. Three men stand on the footplate of the John Ostle Marshall General Purpose Engine 54492, one of them addresses a crowd standing around the engine. A man holding two girl changes to a woman being presented with a flower, the crowd applaud. On the back of a flatbed lorry a brass band performs. A man uses a tap key to turn on the spring from the tap in the pavement. An older man pours himself a glass of water from this spring and holds it up. He stands with the woman seen previously, in the background the John Ostle traction engine being driven past the Maypole Hotel. On the green at Long Preston spectators watch a game of women’s football while the brass band continues to perform. At the head of a parade through the village of Carleton a marching brass band followed by the Burrell General Purpose traction engine with Ken Ellwood at the controls. Children in costumes follow behind, one dressed as a golliwog, another Charlie Chaplin. Some of the adults accompanying the children are also in costume with more costumed children ride past on ponies. The ‘Tom Varley’ steam lorry turns onto a suburban road and parks behind a gypsy caravan being pulled by a tractor. In front of it the procession of costumed children waiting to start again. The procession gets underway with the Burrell traction engine following the marching band through the village. The John Ostle Marshall travels along a road on its way to the Gisburn Steam Rally passing a river or reservoir. It pulls off the road and puts a pipe into the water in order to fill the engines water-tank. The tank full the engine departs travelling along a road past a stately home. Two boys swing on a tree branch changes to the Burrell traction engine being reversed towards the ‘Coronation’ public house. Again, water is extracted from a nearby river after which it turns into a field past a sign that reads ‘Steam Rally Here!’. The engine reverses into a farmyard. In another farmyard a film crew is shooting a scene involving the ‘Tom Varley’ steam lorry which pulls up beside a gate. A woman goes over to the lorry followed by a man, they stand beside the lorry. In a field at the Gisburn Steam Rally several steam traction engines on display including the Burrell General Purpose engine and a woman standing beside it polishing. The Burrell Steam Engine 3802 Little Dorothy on display with a small crowd watching the engine in operation. Two young women stand on the footplate of another engine beside an older man. Nearby a steam powered calliope. A man stands atop a flatbed lorry, beside him someone at a foot-organ. A small crowd stand behind a yellow tape listening to the sermon. Around the rally site various traction engines and steam lorries on display with people walking past looking over the vehicles. A crowd gathers around a small stand-alone steam engine changes to a phantom traction engine ride home from the rally through Long Preston. Both the John Ostle Marshall and the Burrell General Purpose traction engines are on display outside Skipton Town Hall near to ‘Alan Parker’s Grill’. A sandwich board resting against one of the engines for a ‘Model Railway Exhibition’. The two engines on display on Skipton High Street with people looking them over.