Aveling and Porter: NR 2393
Note: This is a sub-section of Aveling and Porter.
1900. Pride Of The Road, 10 ton roller, No. 4660, Reg No: NR 2393, 5 nhp.
This engine was purchased in 1900 by Hinckley Rural District Council in Leicestershire where she worked until 1926. It was then sent to an engine dealer in Wood Lane, London. She was then purchased by Syd Sutton a contractor from Beckermet, Cumbria. Under Syd, the engine worked in the Lake District for 32 years where she was sub-contracted out from 1940 to 1943. The engine was used to build two Royal Ordinance Factories. The first was Drigg and the second was ROF Sellafield.
In 1958 she passed into the hands of H. F. Smith and Son of Hexham, Northumberland where she worked with a lighter Fowler roller on general road repairs.
In 1968 she was sold to Billy Treloar (an engine dealer), then bought by Barry Harrison of Burgh by Sands, Carlisle, who also bought the Fowler. They both spent the next 28 years in a barn, but while the Fowler was completely covered, the Pride was half exposed.
In 1996, Nigel Scurrah of Rippon took ownership and put in new tubes, a tube plate and chimney. In 1997 she then passed to Colin Cambage of Borough Bridge, North Yorkshire who fitted a new tender in 2002.
Since being purchased in 2004 by the Ellway family of St.Cleer, she has been under continuous restoration to keep her in near working condition.