What I saw today [View All]

[billyskank]

When I walked into town today, I found the shopping centre taken over by a market. People selling all kinds of things, and a number of simple fairground attractions also. If I had known I would have taken my camera, but alas I did not have it with me. I did manage to take a couple of snaps with my phone:





This was my favourite thing of all, a steam powered traction engine:



I asked one of the guys about it. He said it was built in 1925. I asked him if it was powering the carousel (above) and he said usually they did, but today they weren't because of some local regulation or other. He said in fact they can generate power for up to four rides. I asked him what horsepower it was, and he said it is 10hp. I thought that is not much for such a big engine, but what a wonderful machine nonetheless.