Links to Related Websites

The Leeds & District Traction Engine Club.
This is my local club, whose meetings and functions I try to attend.

The Traction Engine Discussion Forum.
The site to visit for sales and wanted advertisements, noticeboard and a comprehensive set of links.

The Traction Engine Pages.
The site to visit for sales and wanted advertisements, noticeboard and a comprehensive set of links.

Simon's Garrett Steam Lorry Project.
A site about the project undertaken by Simon Bass to rebuild a Garrett undertype steam lorry from a collection of parts purchased in 2002.

The Sentinel Driver's Club.

Threshers Bush Steam Club.

Old Glory
The online version of the popular preservation magazine.

The Long Shop.
The museum, in part of Garrett's former works, dedicated to the history of the company and its products.

Steam & Engine of Australia.
This is a very large site with links to all manner of steam, internal combustion and hot air engines plus much more; well worth a visit.

The Ekotechnicke Museum in Prague. I visited this museum, housed in a former sewage treatment plant, during August 2004. The magnificent buildings contain a pair of large pumping engines. The underground brick chambers are cathedral-like in their construction. At the time of our visit the Skoda steam roller was under restoration in the workshop and the remains of a Fowler ploughing engine and a Clayton & Shuttleworth portable could be seen in the grounds.

Essex Steam

Here is a selection of Czech sites about Garretts and Sentinels.

Adamov-Garrett
This site gives details about the firm of Adamov, which purchased a Garrett wagon in 1925 along with sufficient parts to build several wagons and a licence to build them in Czechoslovakia.

sentinely ve fotografii
A Czech site about Skoda Sentinels. I can't read the text but the pictures are superb.

Davo Models.
On this page there are links to photographs of Skoda Sentinel models and full size wagons.

Preserved Skoda Sentinel.

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