Bloxham Steam Rally

The Great Bloxham Vintage Vehicle & Country Show

Tractors lined up waiting to go into the parade ring in 2009
Promoter
Organisers	The Banbury Steam Society

Sponsors (main)
Date held on	Last weekend of June
Duration (days)	2
Venue	Bloxham
Location	nr Banbury,
County	Oxfordshire
Country	England
NTET Accredited	Yes
Attendance numbers (approximate no.)	?
Next Event Date	June 2010
First Event was held in (year)	?
Last Event was held in (year)
No. of years held	41st 2009

Events Web Site

The Great Bloxham Vintage Vehicle & Country Show or Bloxham Steam Rally (to give it the more usual name), is held at the end of June nr Banbury, Oxfordshire. The Rally is organised by the Banbury Steam Society.

History[]

Fowler 80 sn 21090 at Bloxham 09 -IMG 6194 — Restored Fowler 80 with Vickers winch

The 2009 event was the 41st that has been held.

The 2010 event guide called the event The Banbury Rally @ Bloxham 2010. Apparently there have been changes to some of the organising committee and some of the site layout was revised (not to every bodies satisfaction from some comments heard & read).

The Event features[]

The event is a National Traction Engine Trust Authorised Event. Exhibit classes include:

Steam engines
Tractors
Working displays
Vintage Cars
Commercial vehicles
Fairground rides & Stalls
Classic plant
Collectable Models
Collectables
Stationary Engines
Trade stalls
Club stands.
craft tent
Etc.

2013 Event[]

Steam line-up at Banbury 2013 - IMG 0147 — 2013 arena steam line-up

2012 Event[]

The 2012 rally was cancelled due to the excessively wet weather in the weeks prior to the event resulting in some parts of the site being waterloged.

2011 Event[]

Bloxham Steam Rally/2011

2010 Event[]

2010 steam exhibits[]

Selection of exhibits appeared down on last year with few 'new' exhibits

NOTE list not updated for 2010 yet photos are 2009 ones !!

Steam Engines list
Exhibit no.	Engine (make & No.)	Name	Type	year built	Reg no.	Owner	Photo	Misc info
1	Ruston Proctor no. 33471	-	Traction Engine	1907	EW 2691	M. Thexton		Owned since 1968
2	Allchin no. 1652	Little Mo	Traction Engine	1914	EB 4938	Chris Herring		Regular Bloxham visitor in the 1960s
3	Mann no. 881	Uncle Walt	Wagon	1914	TF 2598	Stevens family		Recently refurbished
4	Robey no. 28094	Pride of the Walk	Traction Engine	1908	AO 8932	Paul Wallington		2nd year back after major works
5	Fowler No. 15902	Jessica	Steam roller	1923	KR 8728	D. Wardell		Livery of 'D. Wardell & Sons of Birmingham' (photo to be updated)
6	Burrell no. 4093	Dorothy	Road Locomotive	1931	DV 9252	Smith family - Banbury
7	Fowler no. 13141	Jo	Road Locomotive	1913	HO 5677	M. Davies, Inkberow		picture to be updated
8	Fowler no. 15673	[[]]	Ploughing Engine	1922	F49 UXE	M. Davies
9	Fowler no. 15182	Achilles	Ploughing Engine	1918	HO 5869	Owner ?
10	Fowler no. 14257	Linkey	Ploughing Engines	1916	KE 2494	M & A Jones, Droitwich		Picture to be updated
11	Ruston & Hornsby no. 14059	-	Steam Roller	1921	CJ 4853	S. Vickery & Family
12	Burrell no. 3395	The Dalesman	Road Locomotive	1912	FJ 1536	T Freeman
13	Marshall no. 28922	Alderman	Traction Engine	1897	BH 7606	M. Billing	((150px]]	No photo taken ! (in working area)
14	Barrows & Stewart no. 542	-	Portable Engine	1870	-	R. Hoggets		Built in Banbury 1 of only 3 surviving
15	Wallis & Steevens no. 7905	Tomboy	Steam Roller	1926	OT 3191	D Wothers
16	Ransomes Sims & Jefferies no. 36220	-	Traction Engine	1920	UE 2496	G. Holman	150px	In working area
17	Marshall no. 61970	-	Agricultural Engine	1913	BJ 5934	Terry Petty	150px
18	Sentinel no. 9074	Proctors Pride	Steam wagon	1934	BEV 466
19	Burrell no. 4018	Thomas Hardy	Steam Roller	1925	PR 4449	T. Freeman
20	Sentinel no. 7966	Nippy	Wagon DG6	1929	UW 2522	B. Cousins		Immaculately restored 1st Time out for this steam wagon
21	Stanley Steam Car no. 5095	-	Steam Car	1910	BS 9540	Sally Ann Dodd
not in guide	Burrell no. 3896	Earl Beatty	Showmans Engine	1921	C0 4052	Owner ?
not in Guide	Aveling-Barford AC624	-	Steam Roller	1938	CVC 979	Owner ?
not in guide	Marshall no. 34151	Jimmie B	Traction Engine	1900	TB 2649	Owner
not in Guide	McLaren/Fowler no. 14380	Sally	Ploughing Engine BB	1917 / ?	NK 1755	Owner ?		One of a Pair converted to Diesel for Dredging
Working area	Belliss and Morcom No.8890	CAITLIN	Industrial engine	?	NA	M. J. Pomery		Engine ex Droitwich Spa laundry (A small Aveling Barford boiler now used for steam)(photo at Astwood Bank Gathering
no	no.	[[]]	Traction Engine	19	reg no.	Owner	To add 150px

Commercial & Military vehicles[]

A number of interesting vehicles were present including these;

AEC Mandator
AEC Militant
Albion Motors Flatbed
Austin K2, Austin K9 and Austin Champ
Bedford M, Green Goddess, Bedford O
Bristol artic
Daimler Ferret
ERF A series
Morris Commercials LC5
Scammell Explorer
Scammell T45 and Craven Tasker tank trailer with Scorpion tank

photos to follow later) And a few others trucks besides.

Tractors[]

Manitou RTF at Bloxham 09 - IMG 6132 — A restored Manitou RT Forklift

Caterpillar 60 sn 5397A at bloxham 09 - IMG 6218 — A Caterpillar 60 converted to LPG

Note: table is not filled in for this event yet

Tractor exhibit list
entry no.	Make	Model no. / type	Reg no.	Serial no. (if known)	year built	Owner	Photo	Misc info
?	Ford	Ford 2600	Q359 OTL	-	year ?	owner ?	150px]]
?	Zetor	Zetor 3045	-	sn unknown	?	owner ?	150px]]
?	Fordson/Roadless	Roadless Fordson N half-track	Reg no. ?	Roadless no. ?	?	owner ?	150px]]	Ex RAF Fitted with front winch
?	Fahr	Fahr D66	-	sn unknown	?	owner ?	150px]]	Fitted with mid mounted side mower bar.
?	Caterpillar	Caterpillar D4D	-	Caterpillar D4 ?	?	owner ?	150px]]	Fitted with Agricultural 3-point linkage
?	Fordson	Roadless Dexta Super	-	Roadless no. ?	1963	R. Hughes	150px]]
Add any other tractors from this event above here in Entry no order / ABC by make if no number
add more entries	by copying block	below and	pasting in	between entries
-	Make	Model no.	Reg no. ?	Serial no	Year	Owner ?		150px]]

Cars[]

? exhibits listed

Commercial vehicles[]

55 exhibits listed

Military / Heavy Haulage[]

49 exhibits listed

Stationary engines[]

? exhibits listed

Working area demonstrations[]

Gallery of additional photos from event[]

2009 Event[]