An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of his Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 known as ‘Deborah’ powering a Foster-Lincoln threshing machine on display and in operation at the Harewood Traction Engine Rally in the grounds of Harewood House, West Yorkshire. Both machines were owned by the filmmaker and he and his family feature helping out. The film also features a religious service taking place before the display begins featuring a brass band, possibly the Skipton Band. A...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of his Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 known as ‘Deborah’ powering a Foster-Lincoln threshing machine on display and in operation at the Harewood Traction Engine Rally in the grounds of Harewood House, West Yorkshire. Both machines were owned by the filmmaker and he and his family feature helping out. The film also features a religious service taking place before the display begins featuring a brass band, possibly the Skipton Band. A young woman in a stripy red-and-white top sits on a steam traction engine and waves at someone, possibly a musician in a brass band sitting nearby. Two line of traction engines on display including the Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 Deborah owned by the filmmaker. On a raised platform beside the brass band four men two of whom are wearing vestments. As well as the conductor leading the band, one of the men on the platform also waves his arms, possibly conducting the congregation around the platform singing a hymn. A family group gather around the young woman still sitting on the traction engine, around them drivers standing on or beside their traction engines. People bow their heads as one of the men leads them in pray after which the band begins playing again. The Burrell General Purpose traction engine now attached to a Foster-Lincoln threshing machine in operation. A man stands on the footplate of the engine while two others standing atop the threshing machine forking wheat or other cereal crop into the machine to be threshed. The waste straw comes along a convey out of the thresher dropping into another machine that turns it into bales. A large crowd stand around watching the operation. A third man uses a pitchfork to toss bales of wheat to the men atop the thresher, at the controls of the traction engine Ken Ellwood who is joined by a second man. Two boys have fun rolling around in the large pile of wheat or hay beside the thresher, a man pours himself a glass of cider from a small barrel drinking it with a smile. At another part of the showground a steam powered milling machine with a man both watching over the controls as well as holding onto the sack into which the wheat being milled is being collected. Kath Ellwood sits on the footplate of Burrell traction engine while two men continue feeding the threshing machine with wheat or another cereal crop. Crowds of people walk past, some stopping to see what is going on. A man watches a sack as it is filled with grain.