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Aveling & Porter built more steam rollers than all the other manufacturers combined. They also built traction engines and steam wagons.
The company also built a few pairs of ploughing engines. A pair of which (unique in the UK) survive in the collection at the Thursford Steam Museum at Thursford, Norfolk. The Thursford Collection includes 27 Aveling & Porter steam tractors and rollers and 16 more by other manufacturers.
Another example of Aveling and Porters engineering skills can be seen in the massive covered slips at Chatham Dockyard. These Leviathans of steel pre-date the great London train sheds of St. Pancras, King's Cross and Paddington—traditionally understood to be the oldest and largest steel framed structures of the time.
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Traction engine-based railway locomotive, as used on the Brill Tramway
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Early Aveling & Porter Loco in Chatham Dockyard
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Aveling & Porter roller "Britannia" (s/n 8548) at Bromyard, Herefordshire show 2008
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Inside the covered slips at Chatham Historic Dockyard
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