Steam Engine Centaur

Burrell showman's road locomotive steam traction engine No.2894 'Centaur' 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 where it named 'Centaur' and then renamed 'Pride of Worcester'. Image taken circa 1960