In 1934 the company had formed Aveling-Barford from two companies Aveling and Porter of Kent and Barford & Perkins of Peterborough, using a former site of R & H.

In the aftermath Aveling and Porter combined with Barford & Perkins in 1933 to form Aveling-Barford which continued to make steam and motor rollers.

During the Dambuster Raids Royal Air Force missions in May 1943, the RAF Bomber Command's No. 5 Group and the operation HQ was in St Vincents, a building which was later owned by Aveling-Barford and housed a district council planning department.

The company is based in Grantham, and still trades under the name ' Barford ' which uses a modern version of the Aveling-Barford ' prancing horse ' logo.

Coventry Climax became part of the British Leyland Special Products division, alongside Alvis, Aveling-Barford and others.

The Universal was produced in Great Britain by Aveling-Barford, Ford, Sentinel, Thornycroft, and Wolseley Motors.

Aveling-Barford is now part of the Wordsworth Holdings Group, a family-owned company.

* Steam power – The improved steam engine invented by James Watt and patented in 1775 was at first mainly used to power pumps for pumping water out of mines, but from the 1780s was applied to power other types of machines.

" Steaming Down Argent Street: A History of the Broken Hill Steam Tramways 1902 – 1926 " ( ISBN 0-909372-13-6 ).

* January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains and led to the banning of Steam locomotives in the state.

Kitch Greenhouse Steam Calliope at the Ohio Historical Society – July, 2006

Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway | Maidenhead Railway Bridge as J. M. W. Turner | Turner saw it in 1844

SRA during the Steam Era Longworth, Jim Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, April, 1996 pp99 – 116

* 1803 – Richard Trevithick built his 10-seater London Steam Carriage

* 1844 – Rain, Steam and Speed-The Great Western Railway, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London

* Lambert, Andrew Battleships in Transition, the Creation of the Steam Battlefleet 1815 – 1860, published Conway Maritime Press, 1984.

* Gardiner, Robert & Lambert, Andrew, ( Editors ), Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The Steam Warship, 1815 – 1905 ( Conway's History of the Ship series ), Book Sales, 2001

While British American, the other pioneer transatlantic steamship company did not submit a tender, the St. George Steam Packet Company, owner of the Sirius, bid £ 45, 000 for a monthly Cork-Halifax service and £ 65, 000 for a monthly Cork – Halifax – New York service.

* Steam Sawmill Hill – A prominent hill by the north town line.

Steam locomotives could not operate on the Beck Hole incline ; so in the early 1860s the North Eastern Railway started construction of an alternate route which opened in 1865 – this is the route which is still in use today.

* Jabez Carter Hornblower ( 1744 – 1814 ), Steam engine pioneer.

* Thomas Newcomen ( 1663 – 1729 ) Steam Engine Pioneer ( exact site of burial unknown )

* Canney, Donald L The Old Steam Navy, The Ironclads, 1842 – 1885.

* Lambert, Andrew Battleships in Transition: The Creation of the Steam Battlefleet 1815 – 1860.

* Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif: The Sail and Steam Navy List, 1815 – 1889, Chatham Publishing, 2004.

The Dendermonde – Puurs Steam Railway ( Stoomspoorlijn Dendermonde-Puurs ) is a heritage railway situated in the Belgian provinces of East Flanders ( Oost-Vlaanderen ) and Antwerp ( Antwerpen ).

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At the Glasgow Barrowlands gig on Thursday 17 March 2011 Burns announced that a new album was being recorded – hopefully for a 2011 release – before launching into a new song, " Full Steam Backwards ", about the recent banking crisis in the UK.

Image: Steam locomotive shay. jpg | Illustration from Lima catalog – Class B 70-ton ( s / n 2982 of 1918 ) – Fairfield Steel 170 later became Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad 170

* 1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer ( d. 2006 )

* 1958 – The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada opens.

* 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.

* 1885 – L. A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.

Certainly in this machine Harrison left the world two enduring legacies – the bimetallic strip and the caged roller bearing.

* 1989 – Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is considered to be the " coaster wars ".

* 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.

* SSW Malta Poznań – roller skating club

* January 20 – L. A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.

* May 4 – Top Thrill Dragster opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.

In general, the entire world seems to rely on much scarcer resources to get by – characters travel by foot, roller skates, bicycle or airship on trips that in 20th century terms could be done much faster by automobile and airplane.

* 1738 – Lewis Paul patents the draw roller.

* 47 – 80 mm for roller hockey skating.

It is the only amusement park in the world with four roller coasters taller than – Magnum XL-200, Millennium Force, Wicked Twister, and Top Thrill Dragster – and is the only park with roller coasters in all four height classifications.

* The Cyclone roller coaster – built in 1927, it is one of the United States's oldest wooden coasters still in operation.

* Thunderbolt – this roller coaster across the street from Steeplechase Park was constructed in 1925 and closed in 1983.

* Tornado – this roller coaster was constructed in 1926.

The man – and the camera following him from behind – survey its contents: a dog and a cat share a basket, a caged parrot and a goldfish in its bowl sit atop a small table ; the walls are bare apart from a mirror and an unframed picture of “ the face of God the Father ” pinned to the wall ; there is a couch with a pillow, some blankets and a rug on it, a rocking chair with a “ curiously carved headrest ” and there is a window with a tattered roller blind with full-length net curtains to either side.

* Felipe Jesus Consalvos ( 1891 – c. 1960 ) was a Cuban-American cigar roller and artist, known for his posthumously-discovered body of art work based on the vernacular tradition of cigar band collage.

* Stampida – This dueling Wooden roller coaster is the third largest roller coaster in the park.