A Mystery Steam Traction Engine
The photograph below is taken from a collection of glass negatives dating from the 1900s discovered in a former industrial building in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Some of the other photos in the collection definitely show scenes in Newark, so we may perhaps assume that this picture too was taken close to the town.
Can you recognise the type of steam traction engine in the picture, and what it might have been used for with that enormous tank on the back? (Tar spraying, perhaps?)
(No Registration plate is shown by the vehicle, so we infer that the picture is pre-1903 when number plates were first introduced).
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