BELVOIR CASTLE STEAM FESTIVAL AND FAMILY
SHOW
19-20 May 2012
Number of tractors booked in so far: Single Cylinders - 13, others - 115.
The 2012 rally will be held on the same site as last year within the beautiful grounds of Belvoir Castle, home to the Duke and Duchess of Rutland. The castle is located in Leicestershire, just over the border from Lincolnshire and about eight miles due west of the A1 at Grantham. The rally is a conventional steam traction engine rally with all the usual attractions.
The Tractor Section is open to all types and makes of tractor, and will once again feature those with horizontal, single cylinder engines - Marshall, Lanz, Landini, HSCS, SF Vierzon, McDonald, Orsi, the Lanz copies (Percheron, KL, Ursus and Pampa) and other similar tractors. The average number of tractors of all makes on display in recent years has been about 320.
New this year will be an Allis Chalmers Club display and a separate Blue Force display. Also this year the horticultural tractors will be grouped into their own display area.
Club displays will be provided by:
the Nottinghamshire Group, NVTEC,
the
Rutland Group NVTEC,
the South Worcester Group NVTEC,
and the David Brown Club (Lincolnshire).
Chris Collier is bringing his dynamometer so that any tractor with a PTO can be tested to determine the power output.
Working displays will be provided by:
AJB Engineering - rack sawbench
Vale of Belvoir Machinery Group - threshing (subject to confirmation).
All invitations have now been sent out to those people who have exhibited in the past. Invitations will of course be sent to anyone else on request.
Please also visit the rally's main website at www.steamfestival.co.uk You may also wish to visit the Castle's website at www.belvoircastle.comAndy Watson
Tractor Section Steward
Email: watson.andrew_at_ virgin.net (Replace '_at_' with '@'.)
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