Adrian Nash with his hand built steam wagon named Harold at Jensens Cooperage. A naming ceremony was held at the cooperage yesterday as the engine - which has taken four years to build - is complete. Mr Nash is readying to take Harold to Masham Steam Engine and Fair Organ Rally this weekend, joining engines big and small from across the country for the hugely popular event
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00:00It's Adrian Nash, I'm just from outside Lancaster. We've just had another four years building another
00:06engine like you do, like you have to do. It's a scratch built Foden C type wagon.
00:13So basically the only bit you have to buy in really is the boiler, although I did buy the
00:19centre of the cylinder block because it was too heavy to do any other way. And we've had a long
00:27time relationship with Jonathan and we like the craft cooper in business so we went with his
00:32latest venture which is Jensen's Spry Livery, hence the Jensen's bottle. It's based on a Foden
00:40C type, general purpose wagon, although this one's configured obviously as a drey,
00:46for obvious reasons, being in a cooperage. I can't tell you a vast amount more about it
00:52without going into real great detail, but it's a great thing, it's a fun thing to have. It's
00:57another four years of my life building one but what else would you do? It's not like you get
01:03in a car or a truck, turn the key and go. There is definitely a period of learning to drive them
01:10and the first 30-50 miles you do you will run out of steam, you'll run out of water,
01:15you'll run out of fire, with full name and address, with remarkable regularity.
01:21Eventually you get the hang of driving and happy there's you're away. We took it out to Fylde the
01:27other week and I had a five mile run each way with no loss of pressure which is pretty good
01:33going really. Normally, yeah, first few outings it was things seizing up. The worst thing that
01:40happened to us on the first outing was the mud old door seal blew and we took about 100 yards
01:45of hedge out across the footpath which could have ended badly but it didn't. It's an expensive
01:53hobby so I don't do too many rallies, I do about six, eight rallies a year. Masson being the centre
02:00one, it's like coming home and I wouldn't miss this one for home. Next one we'll go to have to
02:07do is Driftfield, so people see to Driftfield, then back round here to Hunton, but then there's
02:14a little do with do down in Cheshire at Little Lee in October which is generally freezing cold,
02:20but it's a little pub car park so. Masson was actually the very first rally it ever came to,
02:25age one, in 1965, so I did come to the first one. This is spiritual home now you see, got to come
02:34back again. Should we name? Yep we should name. So I hereby name the engine Harold.
02:45That's brilliant, thank you.
02:53How do you have to do that? Thank you very much.