DAYS OUT: Interaction, In Traction

Wow!

Driving home from my shift today, I spotted this, in some (rich/lucky?) person’s driveway.

And what a lovely setting.

I think the traction engine belongs to the more modern house, just out of view above, and behind in the shot below.

Bostock & Wombwell’s Gigantic Combination.
An amazing and an humungous beast.
Goes by the name of Nero.

Does he/she fiddle, while Rome burns?

Fab seat, in the ‘up’ position.
Mightily impressive.
Note the mirror like sheen!
Made in Thetford. Fairly local.
This wheel’s nearly as tall as me!
The front end ‘bobbin’.

This sighting kind of made my delivery day. Which in other respects – although the weather was mostly amicable – was a little dull.

Bostock & Wombwell’s Gigantic Enterprise.

Intriguingly it’s a ‘Combination! on one side, and an ‘Enterprise’ on t’other. Wonder why that is?

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