Nauticalia

            ***Limited Edition of 1,450***

‘Quo Vadis’ was purchased new in 1922 by London Showman William Wilson, and travelled with Rodes Switchback until the mid 1930s, when it was sold to amusement contractors Walls of Petersfield, Hants.

After retiring in 1955, the engine was bought and restored in 1965 by Edward Hines, still regularly appearing at steam rallies.

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