Overseer
Western Thunderer
Museum Victoria have an extensive collection of sales material relating to Ruston & Hornsby sourced from R&H's local agent. They have recently made the photographs available at a resolution good enough to see the details. These are some of the photos from a circa 1923 photo album mostly illustrating dragline excavators.
Starting with a couple of shots of a smaller dragline widening a channel. Can anyone identify the location? The work boat wouldn't be hard to model.
A model 75 dragline, at the larger end of the steam powered range, this one is mounted on crawler tracks.
A detail of the wagons in the background-
Great Northern 5-plank wagon, LNWR Diagram 84 4-plank wagon, North British Diagram 81 3-plank merchandise wagon and a RUSTON 5-plank PO wagon.
In another photo, Furness Railway Diagram 14 4-plank wagon, LNWR Diagram 84 4-plank wagon, two North Eastern opens marked 'SLEEPER', also a pale RUSTON 5-plank PO wagon behind and part of an NER 3 plank wagon.
A couple of smaller draglines (both parts of a single photo), the first with a glimpse of a saddle tank to the right.
Enlargements if the PO wagons in the previous photo with RUSTON & HORNSBY LTD spelt out.
Interesting range of wagons in the works yard, some from long distances from Lincoln.
Starting with a couple of shots of a smaller dragline widening a channel. Can anyone identify the location? The work boat wouldn't be hard to model.
A model 75 dragline, at the larger end of the steam powered range, this one is mounted on crawler tracks.
A detail of the wagons in the background-
Great Northern 5-plank wagon, LNWR Diagram 84 4-plank wagon, North British Diagram 81 3-plank merchandise wagon and a RUSTON 5-plank PO wagon.
In another photo, Furness Railway Diagram 14 4-plank wagon, LNWR Diagram 84 4-plank wagon, two North Eastern opens marked 'SLEEPER', also a pale RUSTON 5-plank PO wagon behind and part of an NER 3 plank wagon.
A couple of smaller draglines (both parts of a single photo), the first with a glimpse of a saddle tank to the right.
Enlargements if the PO wagons in the previous photo with RUSTON & HORNSBY LTD spelt out.
Interesting range of wagons in the works yard, some from long distances from Lincoln.