An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood begins in 1966 with his recently purchased Burrell General Purpose traction engine being collected from its previous owner in the village of Little Weighton in East Yorkshire. Once checked over it is driven to its new home in a shed on the Reception ground at the top of Raikes Road in Skipton. Next, the engine takes part in two rallies the first at Harewood House in 1966 and then Pudsey near Leeds in 1967. In the final part of the film Burrell Engine is...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood begins in 1966 with his recently purchased Burrell General Purpose traction engine being collected from its previous owner in the village of Little Weighton in East Yorkshire. Once checked over it is driven to its new home in a shed on the Reception ground at the top of Raikes Road in Skipton. Next, the engine takes part in two rallies the first at Harewood House in 1966 and then Pudsey near Leeds in 1967. In the final part of the film Burrell Engine is joined by Marshall General Purpose Engine owned by a friend of the filmmakers on display along Skipton High Street as part of a model railway exhibition. In the village of Little Weighton the Burrell General Purpose steam traction engine parked in a layby beside a farm. A family group watches from across the road and John Crowther and a second man look over the traction engine pouring a can of Shell oil into the machine. Ken Ellwood and another man stands on the footplate as the Burrell traction engine as it moves off along country road pulling a Land Rover behind it. A third man races after the engine jumping on board. John Crowther and another man stand chatting on the footplate as the traction engine travels past along a country road. The Burrell traction engine is parked at the Reception ground at the top of Raikes Road in Skipton, a small wagon now attached to the rear. Two men and two small children stand nearby looking over the engine. The Burrell engines steams along a track onto the road, on the footplate Ken Ellwood with John Crowther at the controls. The engine travels along Otley Road outside Skipton and pulls off beside a bridge where water from the river below is pumped into its water-tank. John Crowther stands nearby eats a sandwich. In the grounds at Harewood House the Burrell traction engine on display. A young man stands at the controls of the engines, beside him John Ellwood. His older siblings David and Deborah sit at the rear of the engine while John swings off the back. Ken Ellwood drives the Burrell through the showground changing to David Ellwood polishing a brass-plate on the machine. Two women climb onboard the engine and are shown how it works by the young man seen previously. The Burrell traction engine pulling a small red wagon is driven out of its shed on the Reception Grounds in Skipton by Tim Turnball with John Crowther standing nearby. The engine is driven down Skipton High Street by John with Tim standing beside him past the local Woolworths and out along a country road. In a field at the Pudsey rally the Burrell engine on display changes to it being driven forward and them backwards past several marquess with visitors sitting or standing behind a rope barrier in front of a showground. A long line of steam traction engines and several steam lorries in a field including a Robey Tractor 33957 Village Queen. A crowd walk past a sign that reads ‘Entrance. Grove Bros. Bioscope Show’, nearby a steam traction engine powering a musical calliope. The Burrell engine in operation at the rally with a woman in denim jumping down from the footplate. Around the site many other traction engines on display with one owner or driver using a brush to clean the brass plate in his engine. Two boys sit in a carriage while a man attempt to control an upset horse it is attached to. A crowd gather around the now overturn carriage a short distance away. Several horse-drawn carriages are pulled past by men rather than horses. A man and young girl sit atop a traction engine that is powering a nearby calliope. Visitors walk past more steam traction engines on display, many of the owners either standing beside their engines chatting or standing on the footplate beside the control. An engine has its water-tank filled. Inside a showground a series of engines either lining up or being drive around past crowds walking around the edges. A poster advertising a ‘Model Railway and Transport Exhibition’ taking place inside the town hall at Skipton changes to the Marshall General Purpose Engine 54492 owned by John Ostle parked at the Reception grounds in Skipton. With two men at the controls the engine steams along a path onto the main road followed by the Burrell General Purpose traction engine with Ken Ellwood at the controls. Outside the Black Horse Hotel in Skipton the Burrell traction engines on display with a small crowd gather around looking it over. Nearby the Marshall engine also on display with a sandwich board resting against it promoting the model railway exhibition. One of the drives of the engines stands chatting with an older man.