This slim 1961 book documents steam enthusiast Ian N. Fraser's successful legal
battle to obtain planning permission for an engine shed next to his house in
Arbroath's most select residential area
.
It's an interesting bit of history with some nice photos.
I thought it'd be interesting to look up where the vehicles featured in the
book are now, 60 years later.
Fraser's 1915 Marshall traction engine Jingling Geordie
is now
on static display
at Snibston Discovery Museum.
His 1900 Kerr Stuart narrow-gauge locomotive Bonnie Dundee
had
a very smart rebuild
in the 1980s, and is now a passenger locomotive at the
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway.
The 1928 Fowler steamroller that Fraser borrowed from Angus County Council to
build his driveway has also
survived into preservation, now named Oor Wullie
.
(Its 1930 stablemate King o' the Road
lives just down the road from me,
at the Dundee Museum of
Transport.)