Wiltshire Steam and Vintage Rally, (10th - 11th, June 2017)

This is one of a series of pages which I have uploaded to illustrate facets of steam rallies we have attended in the UK. Such events occur all over the country in the summer months, they are easily found by using your favourite search engine and may have anything between a handful of steam engines and hundreds (as at the Great Dorset Steam Fair which could probably be fairly described as having an excess of riches). Click here for the overall index for 2017.

The Wiltshire Rally is at the 'small' end of the scale but has a superb setting (Rainscombe Park, Oare near Marlborough) with surrounding hills. We had visited this rally on a very damp day in 2016, when there was steam ploughing, steam threshing and a saw bench. This year it was disappointing to find a single steam saw bench and while the day started sunny, there was near complete cloud cover by 12.00 when we left. This was well before the scheduled parade in the main ring, unfortunately, there was very little movement and, with the rally field running up from south to north, many of the engines were parked up north facing...

Steam Rollers

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Aveling and Porter	8241/1914	BH 7170	"Jasmine"  Somerset Rally 2014 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2014 Picture  Somerset Rally 2015 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2015 Picture   Wiltshire Rally 2016 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2016 Picture  Somerset Show 2017 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2018 Picture  Wiltshire Rally 2019 Picture
	Aveling and Porter	10671/1823	PR 1165	"Churchill" Woodcote Rally 2014 Picture   Wiltshire Rally 2016 Picture  Heddington Rally 2017 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture

General Engines

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Aveling and Porter	10003/1921	AH 6130	"Hollie", built as a tractor / roller convertible  Ex-Thursford Collection  Heddington Rally 2017 Picture
	Burrell	3458/1913	AB 8795	"Defiance" South Cerney Rally 2013 Picture  Fawley Hill Rally 2014 Picture   South Cerney Rally 2014 Picture  Banbury Rally 2019 Picture
	Burrell	4066/1927	VF 589	"John of Gaunt" South Cerney Rally 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2019 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture
	Foster	14638/1933	VL 4777	"The Little Gem" Welland Rally 2013 Picture  Welland Rally 2017 Picture  Welland Rally 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture
	Marshall	72808/1920	AH 5979	"Britannia"  Woodcote Rally 2014 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2014 Picture  Wiltshire Rally 2016 Picture  Heddington Rally 2017 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2019 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture
	Wallis and Steevens	7498/1916	HO 5629	"Progress"  Wiltshire Rally 2016 Picture  Banbury Rally 2016 Picture  Banbury Rally 2017 Picture  Heddington Rally 2017 Picture  Banbury Rally 2018 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2018 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  Banbury Rally 2019 Picture  Wiltshire Rally 2019 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2019 Picture  Great Dorset Steam Fair 2019 Picture Northleach Show 2019 Picture

Steam Wagon

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Yorkshire	2108/1927	UA 1788	Somerset Show 2014 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2014 Picture  Somerset Show 2015 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2015 Picture  Wiltshire Rally 2016 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2016 Picture  Somerset Show 2017 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2018 Picture  Wiltshire Rally 2019 Picture

Showman's Engine

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Garrett	33374/1915	CE 8250	"Verity" Fawley Hill Rally 2014 Picture  Strawberries and Cream Rally 2014 Picture   South Cerney Rally 2014 Picture  South Cerney Rally 2015 Picture  Fawley Hill Rally 2016 Picture

Portable Engine

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Marshall	28810/1897		Heddington Rally 2017 Picture

Steam Car

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Stanley	607/1914	IA 239	Wiltshire Rally 2016 Picture