Farming used many different types of steam engines for ploughing or driving machinery.
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Julie Nicholls
- Steam Traction Engine, as often used on steam farms
- Steam ploughing at Hollycombe
- Eileen, a portable engine
- John Allen ploughing engine
- Robson horizontal steam engine driving the barn machinery
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Steam power was a major part of farming in the late 19th-early 20th centuries, from light steam tractors to the heavy ploughing engines - some the largest traction engines built - to stationary engines for driving barn machinery.
In addition to the ploughing engines, Hollycombe also has examples of portable engines around the site. These were used largely for threshing corn or driving grinding mills. They were not self-moving like traction engines but had to be towed from place to place, usually by horses.
