Cheltenham Steam and Vintage Fair
Engine line up at 2009 show
Promoter
Organisers	Gloucester Warwickshire Railway & Steam Rally Committee
Sponsors (main)
Date held on	October
Duration (days)	2
Venue	Cheltenham race course
Location	Cheltenham
County	Gloucestershire
Country	England
NTET Accredited	YES
Attendance numbers (approximate no.)	?
Next Event Date	2010
First Event was held in (year)	2008
Last Event was held in (year)
No. of years held	2nd year in 2009
Events Web Site	www.gwsr.com

The Cheltenham Steam & Vintage Fair is a new event first held in 2008 and held at the middle of October by the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway, on land adjacent to their station at Cheltenham race course, Gloucestershire. The Rally is organised by the Glouestershire and Warwickshire Railway Steam Rally Committee with car parking provided by Cheltenham Race Course and the ploughing area by permission of A. Beard the adjacent land owner.

HistoryEdit

The 2009 event was the 2nd that has been held.

The event is a National Traction Engine Trust Authorised Event.

Event featuresEdit

Exhibit classes

• Steam engines
• Tractors
• Vintage Cars
• Commercial vehicles
• Collectable Models
• Collectables
• Stationary Engines

Attractions

• Fairground rides & Stalls
• Working displays & steam ploughing demonstrations
• Trade stalls
• Club stands.
• craft tent
• Etc.

2011Edit

Did a rally take place this year ?

2010 EventEdit

Was held on the 9th and 10th of October 2010 at a site adjacent to the Toddington Station. The Railway having suffered a embankment failure between there and the station at Cheltenham race course.

2009 EventEdit

2009 Steam enginesEdit

Steam Engines list

Exhibit no.	Engine (make & No.)	Name	Type	year built	Reg no.	Owner	Photo	Misc info
1	Aveling & Porter no. 3430	Sarah	Steam roller	1894	PB 9801	Peter Smith		In road building Disply
2	Aveling & Porter no. 8548	Brittania	Steam Roller	1915	AF 4442	Henri Collings		With Living van
3	Burrell no. 4025	Pride of Dorset	Steam roller	1925	PR 6641	Robin Ceny
4	Burrell no. 3121	Keeling	Traction engine	1909	NO 1310	Dave Smith		A regular at shows in the area
5	Burrell no. 3164	Dauntless	Traction engine	1909	AM 5799	Jeffrey Shackell		First appearance at Cheltenham
6	Robey no. 28094	Pride of the Walk	Traction engine	1908	AO 8932	The Wallington Family		Owned since 1973
7	Marshall no. 28922	Alderman	Traction engine	1897	BH 7606	Dave Paxton		On going restoration
8	Marshall no. 61970	Emma	Traction engine	1913	BJ 5934	Terry Petty		Owned since 1984
9	Garrett no. 28410	Mercury	Traction engine	1910	NO 1186	Peter Best		Roads to most rallies under its own steam
10	Wallis & Steevens no. 7498	Progress	Traction engine	1916	HO 5629	R. Herring		Offered as a raffle prize in 1957
11	Burrell no. 4093	Dorothy	Road Locomotive	1931	DV 9252	Denis Smith		Last 3 speed RL built at Burrells
12	Fowler no. 14257	Linkey	Ploughing Engine	1916	KE 2494	Mark Jones		A regular in the area at rallies
13	Fowler no. 15182	Achilles	Ploughing Engine	1918	NO 5869	Michael Davies		Worked till 1970 and still occasionally used for contract jobs
14	Clayton and Shuttleworth no. 50004	Old Hiram	Portable Engine	1926	-	David Cole		On the Saw bench demonstration
15	Foden no. 12770	-	Steam wagon	1927	FN 9060	James Harvey-Bathurst, of Eastnor Castle		In the livery of Beck & Pollitzer haulage contractors
15	Burrell no. 3489	King George VI	Showman's Engine	1913	PB 9624	John Wharton		First showmans to attend a steam rally in 1952
17	Burrell no. 3288	Nancy	Showman's Engine	1911	TA 1118	Prout family
18	Garrett no. 33091	Margaret	Showman's tractor	1917	BP 6077	Richard Hall		150px]]	Listed but not seen
19	Garrett no. 33279	Princess Mary	Steam Tractors	1918	DP 4479	John Garman		In-transit from GDSF to Warwickshire under own steam

Steam modelsEdit

A Number of 'Model' steam engines were present, but no details/photos were taken.

If you visited the show or your models were there please add details of them and photos below, thanks.

Several half size (1/2 scale) models and other working scale miniatures were also present.

Commercial & Military vehiclesEdit

A number of interesting vehicles were present including these;

TractorsEdit

A approximately ? tractor were present (? listed in guide), with a few interesting implements as well. A few more interesting examples were mixed in with the usual grey Fergusons and Fordsons. A few were well restored examples while others were shown in as found condition. A number of restored JCBs were on display in with the tractors and implements area.

More Details to follow, but here are some of the makes & models shown.

• Allis-Chalmers
• BMC
  • BMC Mini tractor
• Case
• County
• David Brown
• Farmall
  • Farmall Cub
• Ferguson
• Field Marshall
• Ford
  • Ford 3000
  • Ford 4000
  • Ford 5000
• Fordson
  • Fordson model N
  • Fordson Dexta
  • Fordson E1A Major
  • Fordson E27N Major
  • Fordson E27N Major Half Track / Roadless
• Ford-Ferguson (Ford 9N)
• International Harvester
  • International 10-20
  • International B250
  • International B275
  • International W4
  • International W9
  • International WD9
  • International TD6
  • International TD9
• John Deere
  • John Deere A
  • John Deere M
• Lanz
  • Lanz Bulldog
• Landini
• Le Percheron ?
• Leyland
• Massey-Harris
• Massey Ferguson
  • Massey Ferguson 35
  • Massey Ferguson 65
  • Massey Ferguson 135
  • Massey Ferguson 165
• McCormick
• Nuffield
• Oliver
• Roadless

Implements

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Tractor exhibit list

entry no.	Make	Model no. / type	Reg no.	Serial no. (if known)	year built	Owner	Photo	Misc info
?	County	County Super-4	Reg no. ?	County no. ?	?	owner ?	150px]]	Fitted with winch
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-	Make	Model no.	Reg no. ?	Serial no	Year	Owner ?		150px]]

Classic carsEdit

A Good selection of classic cars from the 1900's through to modern classics from the 1970s.

90 exhibits listed, but not all were present on the Saturday.

A selection of vintage caravans were also lined up behind the Cars.

Working areas and demonstrationsEdit

Examples of steam ploughing were held in the adjacent field with a few exhibitors also doing demonstrations with there classic tractors and implements of field work.

2009 galleryEdit

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Past EventsEdit

The first event was held in 2003 do you have any details of the participants at this event ?

Please add detail's if you visited with any photos of the exhibits at the event please.

2008

Cheltenham Steam and Vintage Fair/2008

2003

Cheltenham Steam and Vintage Fair/2003

• Burrell no. 3121 Keeling^[1]

See alsoEdit

• List of steam fairs
• Collections
• Shows and Meets
• Clubs Listing
• NTET

References / sourcesEdit

• The show guide 2009

External linksEdit

• Gloucester Warkickshire railway site

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