Preserved Road Steam in Slovakia

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Rod Smith visited the country in July 2024 most of all for rail interest but the following road steam items were noted:

Bratislava Transport Museum

Outside is a preserved steam roller, said to be Skoda (87/1927)

Slovak Agriculural Museum / Slovenske Polnhospodarske (Agrokomplex) Museum, Nitra

Ploughing Engines 

These engines are listed in the European Traction Engine Register and the Steam Plough Club's Overseas Engines List from 2017. I (RD) am very grateful to Dick Eastwood, (RE) former secretary of the SPC for some additional data.

	Fowler	In the foreground is Fowler 9307, AA2 class DCC, April 1902 – the right-hand of the pair. In the background is sister 9308 – the left-hand engine. This pair were sent from the Steam Plough Works to Fowler’s German branch in Magdeburg.
	Fowler	Fowler 9308, AA2 class DCC, 1902 - the left-hand engine. Close-up photos show the outer rim of the front wheel closest to the photographer is ‘scarred’ from the wire rope when working with the implement at a tight angle. Even without a close up picture this indicates the 'hand' of the engine! Fowler numbered the right hand engine followed by the left hand engine of a pair. I (RD) don't know if Kemna followed this system. DCC is double crank compound, i.e. with two cylinders.
	Fowler	Identified as Fowler number 11648, an AA4 Class of 1909. Supplied to John Fowler, Magdeburg, Germany from Leeds.
	Fowler	This is either an AA2 or AA5 Class Fowler engine, date of manufacture around 1912, number unknown. The cylinder and motion gear etc. were removed when it was converted to diesel power, the diesel engine now removed.
	Kemna	Kemna EZN class - 493 or 494, double-cylinder, manufactured in 1914. Think this is the left-hand engine? RE)
	Kemna	Kemna EZN class - 493 or 494, manufactured in 1914. Think this is the right-hand engine of the pair? (RE) Not shown is the Kemna plough between them.

Other Engines

	Clayton & Shuttleworth			Umrath 138(8?)/1914
	Hoffer Schranz			Clayton and Shuttleworth

Cierny Balog

At Hronec in a very dark shed are a portable (Wichterle 557/090) and a steam roller (Zettelmeyer 632/1937) 

Rob and Yuehong  Dickinson

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