Steam fun

Bound for the August Bank Holiday Bishops Castle Rally, the Sentinel DC took five of its members’ wagons for a 13-mile jaunt over some steep hills to Knighton on the Saturday evening, endorsing the practicability of these pre-war vehicles even on a cross-country route. The 1933 Tarmac S-type six-wheeler climbed slowly to a marvellous exhaust beat, an American-owned Stanley steam car joined in, and a convenient stop-cock replenished the Morriss Oils Sentinel. An amusing interlude, and I was surprised at how many readers we have among the steam fraternity, including one from the days of the Brooklands Gazette. WB