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A pair of brand new Fowler B6 "Fen engines", a model of the 8nhp double crank compound Fowler built for Smith's Potato Crisps in the 1920s to work at Nocton - about five miles away from where I sit writing this. The original engine was one of the largest agriculturals ever built, in four inch scale it comes out at seven feet long and weighing in at around three quarters of a ton.

I won't go into a wordy description of these two engines. They come from the workshop of, in my opinion, one of the best traction engine builders working in this scale. Regular readers of the website will have seen several of his engines pass through over the years, including the superb K5 ploughing engine "Obsession", A4 agricultural "Rambler" and the B6 "My Girl" which took second place at Harrogate Show some years ago. All have arrived here new and unsteamed, all have run every bit as well as they look.

Boiler is CE-marked, in steel with expanded tubes - the engine runs as a compound.

There is more about this most talented of builders on a news page from some years ago here.

Length 76 inches
Width 34 inches
Height 49 inches

Weight est 3/4 ton