The Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum in Strumpshaw

Strumpshaw

Strumpshaw is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, on the River Yare in Norfolk, England, within The Broads National Park.It covers an area of and had a population of 602 in 245 households as of the 2001 census....

, Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

 is home to a collection of Traction engine

Traction engine

A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives from the Latin tractus, meaning 'drawn', since the prime function of any traction engine is to draw a load behind it...

s, Steam rollers, a Showman's engine and a Steam wagon

Steam wagon

A steam wagon is a steam-powered road vehicle for carrying freight. It was the earliest form of lorry and came in two basic forms: overtype and undertype – the distinction being the position of the engine relative to the boiler...

 which are run on special occasions and on the last Sunday of each month from April to October.

The Museum also has a narrow gauge railway operated by a Simplex

Simplex

In geometry, a simplex is a generalization of the notion of a triangle or tetrahedron to arbitrary dimension. Specifically, an n-simplex is an n-dimensional polytope which is the convex hull of its n + 1 vertices. For example, a 2-simplex is a triangle, a 3-simplex is a tetrahedron,...

 diesel disguised as a steam engine and a simple four-wheeled coach which are run on most open days. The museum also has the last surviving example of a Garret type of Traction Engine which is now in service, and a unique example of a Steam Wagon which is also working and a huge Ploughing Traction Engine along with a Threshing machine

Threshing machine

The thrashing machine, or, in modern spelling, threshing machine , was a machine first invented by Scottish mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle for use in agriculture. It was invented for the separation of grain from stalks and husks. For thousands of years, grain was separated by hand with flails,...

 and an old plough with the Ploughing engine. There is also a farm next to the museum that has some fairground rides on site which are usually in operation for the public to have rides on. It also has a collection of rare breeds of birds. Neighbouring it is Strumpshaw Fen RSPB reserve.

Strumpshaw Steam Rally

The park is used for an annual steam rally that is held each year on the Half-term Bank Holiday weekend. The event sees several of the Museums engines in steam, with about 50 other visiting engines present, as well as 30 miniatures in steam. Over attraction include several vintage steam fair rides. Demonstrations of crafts and old time steam worked saw mills and road building. The event also has large numbers of vintage and classic tractors and commercial vehicles on display with a daily parade in the ring.

Manufacturers featured in collection

Not all on display.

• Aveling and Porter
  Aveling and Porter
  Aveling and Porter was a British agricultural engine and steam roller manufacturer. Thomas Aveling and Richard Thomas Porter entered into partnership in 1862, developed a steam engine three years later in 1865 and produced more steam rollers than all the other British manufacturers combined.-The...
  
   – 3 Steam rollers, 2 'tractors'
  Traction engine
  A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives from the Latin tractus, meaning 'drawn', since the prime function of any traction engine is to draw a load behind it...
  
  
• Burrell
  Charles Burrell & Sons
  Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery, steam trucks and steam tram engines. The company were based in Thetford, Norfolk and operated from the St Nicholas works on Minstergate and St Nicholas Street some of which survives today.At their height they...
  
   – 3 Traction engines
• Foden – 1 Steam waggon
• John Fowler & Co.
  John Fowler & Co.
  thumb|right|John Fowler & Co. [[steam roller]] of 1923John Fowler & Co Engineers of Leathley Road, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England produced traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as well as railway equipment. Fowler also produced the Track Marshall tractor which was a...
  
   – 1 pair of Ploughing engines (15340 + 15341)
• Garrett
  Richard Garrett & Sons
  Richard Garrett & Sons was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, steam engines and trolleybuses. Their factory was Leiston Works, in Leiston, Suffolk, United Kingdom.The company was active under its original ownership between 1778 and 1932....
  
   – 1 Traction engine
• Marshall, Sons & Co.
  Marshall, Sons & Co.
  -External links:* – at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia...
  
   – 5 Traction engines, 1 steam roller
• Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies
  Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies
  Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries was a major British agricultural machinery maker producing a wide range of products including traction engines, ploughs, lawn mowers, combine harvesters and other tilling equipment. They also manufactured aeroplanes during the First World War...
  
   – Portable engine
  Portable engine
  A portable engine is a small steam engine, mounted on wheels or skids, which is used for driving machinery using a belt from its flywheel. It is not self-propelled and is towed to the work site by horses or bullocks, or even a traction engine. Portable engines were used mainly for driving...
  
  
• Ruston Proctor – Traction engine
• Wallis & Steevens
  Wallis & Steevens
  Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke, Hampshire, England produced agricultural equipment, traction engines and steam and diesel road rollers.-History:...
  
   – Traction engine

Vintage tractors

• Field Marshall
  Field Marshall
  The Field-Marshalls were a range of British farm tractors manufactured by Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.Field-Marshalls were in production from 1945 to 1957. However, the first single-cylinder Marshall came into production in 1930....
  
  
• International Harvester
  International Harvester
  International Harvester Company was a United States agricultural machinery, construction equipment, vehicle, commercial truck, and household and commercial products manufacturer. In 1902, J.P...
  
  

Horizontal engines

• Robey & Co.

Beam engine

• A large beam engine
  Beam engine
  A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod. This configuration, with the engine directly driving a pump, was first used by Thomas Newcomen around 1705 to remove water from mines in Cornwall...
  
  that was saved from a local water works is being restored.

Rail locomotive

• An industrial tank locomotive is also in the museum's collection.

External links

• The Museum's official website
• Tractors Wikia - List of the collections engines with photos