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            ***LImited Edition of 1,300***

An early Road Locomotive from 1911, ‘Clinker’ was purchased new by Wingham Agricultural Implement Co, Kent and was originally used for road haulage. In the early 1920s, it was sold to Mornement and Ray in Norfolk and was latterly used for dredging the fens.

After extensive restoration, ‘Clinker’ celebrates its centenary in 2011 under the ownership of Robert Clifford-Wing of Cornwall.

1:50 scale. Comes with numbered certificate. Length 5”.

Brief History: Charles Burrell and Sons, of Thetford, England, were internationally acclaimed manufacturers of steam engines and agricultural machinery. In 1848 they launched both a single-cylinder portable steam engine and the first combined threshing/dressing machine ever to be offered to the public. In 1856 they produced the Burrell-Boydell self-moving engine, using a continuous track drive system that is still used in tanks today. Their heyday was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, until post World War I, when the internal combustion engine began to take over. Like most engineering artefacts of the Victorian era, they were massively built, and a number of 'Burrells' survive to this day.