Traction Engines Preservation and Power

In this fabulous new collection of images, PaulStratford has captured the magnificence of these superbmachines, often in settings that look much thesame as they did fifty or a hundred years ago. Heevokes an atmosphere of a happier time when faith inBritish engineering and pride in skilled work well donewere hallmarks of working life, and when thepounding of these stupendous mechanical beasts wasa regular occurrence in the fields, fairs and highwaysof England.