The Long Shop Museum, Leiston

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 2017 index.

About 20 years ago, I was asked at a slide show I was giving on sugar mills in Java whether I had ever come across a Garrett engine in them  I have to confess that it was not a name that meant anything to me at the time although I was familiar with Garratt steam locomotives. Fast forward a few more years and in Burma, I started to meet small numbers of these creatures in rice mills, it turned out that they were invariably portable engines which had been split into engine and boiler parts for convenience. After we came to the UK in 2011 and started to visit steam rallies, we started to meet their road steam engines, although I had seen one of their steam rollers preserved in Bangkok since the original question was asked.

The Long Shop Museum, Leiston is housed in the remaining part of the Richard Garrett workshops and we managed to squeeze in a visit on our way to the Grand Henham Steam Rally in September 2017. The Suffolk Punch has recently been put back 'in ticket', but for the time being at least and understandably so, they seem to be keeping it on a short lead and I don't think it has been steamed outside Leiston. Overall the museum Is a magnificent tribute to the memory of the company with a display that goes far beyond the engines shown here.

Steam Roller (seen at the Grand Henham Steam Rally later in the day)

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Garrett	34265/1923	SV 4945	"Consuelo Allen"  Grand Henham Rally 2019 Picture

Agricultural Tractor

			Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
			Garrett	33180/1919	BJ 4483	"The Joker" Suffolk Punch machine, the only survivor of eight built. Great Dorset Steam Fair 2018 Picture  Grand Henham Rally 2019 Picture

Tractor

	Maker	Number	Registration	Notes
	Garrett	32944/1916	BJ 3206	"Princess Marina"

Portable Engine

		Maker	Number		Notes
		Garrett	34471/1925

Semi-Portable Engine

	Maker	Number		Notes
	Garrett	30877/1912

Steam Locomotive

		Maker	Number		Notes
		Aveling and Porter	6158/1906		"Sirapite" 0-4-0T with gear drive. Used to shunt the Garrett's gas works on the same site.

Fire Engine

	Maker	Number		Notes
	Merryweather	4296/1901		Formerly used at the works.