Talk:Showman's road locomotive

Showman's diesel road locomotive
Never heard the term applied to anything other than a steam engine before today... (was added to road locomotive, since removed)

Googling this is very difficult, owing to the alternative uses of the phrase 'road locomotive' (particularly the US description of a type of railway locomotive). However, did find one link (http://www.rogertuby.co.uk/vehicles.htm) where the name is used as a very vague description to cover effectively any type of truck used for pulling fairground rides: not just short wheelbase converted artic tractor units, as described at ballast tractor, but also 8x4 box van -bodied things that probably started life as tipper lorries.

Have added a link in a hatnote, as this article is really intended to cover the original steam vehicles. Modern fairground transport deserves an article of its own. Combining them here is not a good idea.

EdJogg (talk) 13:25, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Should be Showmans not Showman's
The main makers such as Burrell etc use Showmans as a type of engine - not Showman's as in belonging to showman. E.g. the title of the article is incorrect.Chenab (talk) 17:00, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Review: Grammar & Typos
While it's well done, it seems as if the original author didn't have a 100% grasp of the English language. He did quite well if this is the case, but it still needs a lookover. 74.10.226.163 (talk) 17:47, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Mrs. A. Deakin?
The article says that the Supreme, the last of these machines ever built, was sold to Mrs. A. Deakin. Is this Pattie (Mrs. Alfred) Deakin, wife of the second Prime Minister of Australia? I have not created the link because she in fact lived in Australia, but for all I know she may have had a use for it. J S Ayer (talk) 18:59, 24 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Margaret. In this case the the Alfred had died in 1927.©Geni (talk) 15:25, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Possible source on how expensive these things have got
900K in 2020:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-54735107

©Geni (talk) 15:30, 14 December 2022 (UTC)