Road rollers are one of those pieces of plant that most of us don't really manage to get very close to.
Last week when I went over to have a flight in my mates microlight aircraft I thought I'd also take a few pics of a couple of bits of plant at the airfield, I'm told that the purpose of this old Marshall Fowler roller is to roll the runway grass from time to time.
Must say I have only ever seen the grass grow around it and it is starting to show the ravages of time in the open now.
I did not know it was a Marshall Fowler until I took the inside of the cab shots with the VIN plate in it.
Jeremy
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Re: Marshall Fowler Roller
Interesting Find Jeremy.
Rollers must be like busses , dont see one for ages then a load come along together.
Saw 3 rollers at Fred Knights working day and then a whole load of them at Barleylands in Essex earlier this month. There was a Fowler and several Avelings, Barfords etc a Morris
But not seen a Marshall Fowler anywere that i can think of.
Dave
Rollers must be like busses , dont see one for ages then a load come along together.
Saw 3 rollers at Fred Knights working day and then a whole load of them at Barleylands in Essex earlier this month. There was a Fowler and several Avelings, Barfords etc a Morris
But not seen a Marshall Fowler anywere that i can think of.
Dave
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Re: Marshall Fowler Roller
Hello Jeremy
This Fowler Marshall roller looks identical inside and out to the Road Marshall I had in the early 80s.
My roller had a Lister HA3 engine, it had joy-stick steering like the one in your photos.
I worked for Eddison Plant in 1970 and they had several in their fleet, they were new then. I never saw one with Fowler on the plate. Fowler and Marshall were sister companies.
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This Fowler Marshall roller looks identical inside and out to the Road Marshall I had in the early 80s.
My roller had a Lister HA3 engine, it had joy-stick steering like the one in your photos.
I worked for Eddison Plant in 1970 and they had several in their fleet, they were new then. I never saw one with Fowler on the plate. Fowler and Marshall were sister companies.
Fred
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Re: Marshall Fowler Roller
This is my Aveling Barford 1953 roller at a show last summer.
Martyn.
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