Aveling and Porter Road Roller number 12172, The Duck
Aveling and Porter Road Roller number 12172, The Duck, regn UR 1881, built circa 1929, at Ferndown in Dorset. (Aveling and Porter was a British agricultural engine and steamroller (road roller) manufacturer. Thomas Aveling and Richard Thomas Porter entered into partnership in 1862, and developed a steam engine three years later in 1865. By the early 1900s, the company had become the largest manufacturer of steamrollers (road rollers) in the world)
Picture No
14165549
Media ID
48656882
Size
4530px x 3978px
(2.5MB)
Credit
© The Peter Butt Transportation Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Unattributed photographer-Scan of original negative
Date
circa 1959
