Steam Engine King Edward VIII at Southampton Fair

Photograph of Arnold Brothers' Burrell showman's road locomotive steam traction engine No.2894 'King Edward VIII', registration 'FK1463' (built 1907). The engine was new to A Strickland and used with his Bioscope show as 'Pride of Worcester'. It was then sold to Elias Harris and named 'King Edward VIII' and then later sold to the Arnold Brothers. After this it was sold to Sally Beach who used it as 'Lord Fisher' with her gallopers between 1948 and 1951. It then went into preservation under the name named 'Centaur'. It was then renamed 'Pride of Worcester'. Image taken at Southampton Common Fair, 29 May 1939. Side and front view. see also 178C57.987