Pavement Roller Perkins

[taurus MK1]

Hi, here we have a Barford and Perkins pavement roller. Age i dont know, but i think we have the log book somewhere. Its been in the shed for along long time. Must have been an animal to handle. The engine being a water cooled single side valve, it might be a JAP but somebody might know different. The radiator fan is a nice single alloy casting. Would be nice to get her running ......................one day. Anyone else got any details?

[BulldozerD11]

Interesting Machine John, never seen a photo of anything like that.

Should create a bit of interest at one of the shows. Dont know were you are located but there was a good roadbuilding display last year at the Essex country and steam show at Barleylands Essex. The Road roller association visit some of the shows with a tent and they have loads of info on old models. They had a tent at Belvoir castle show for the last few years as well.

Has it got any manufacturers plates on it that are readable with a model and serial numbers ? it must be early as B&P merged with A&P in 1934 to create Aveling-Barford, and a mister Perkins (Jnr) went off to build diesel engines that became rather popular.

Heres the RRA web site try them for info - http://www.r-r-a.org.uk

Dave

Thats the sort of thing i go round shows looking for, along with the more common stuff to get photos of to add to Tractor wiki and post on the forums.

[FOWLER MAN]

Hello John
Never seen anything like that either.
What a brilliant restoration project. Be interesting to watch progress and see it done.
Great tool if you dont have to let it pull you about.
Fred