A handsome vintage advertising sign in enamelled steel, from the well known (and still in existing) Barretts garages in Canterbury, Kent. Sign reads “G.R. Barrett & Son, Motor Engineers Canterbury, Garage for 100 cars, A.A. and R.A.C. Repairers, Largest & Most Up-To-Date Repair Works in Kent.
A very rare, steam engine related, enamel advertising sign.
Made for Schniffer & Co, Argenintian agents for Ransomes products, and featuring a particularly handsome cental picture, depicting of a portable steam enigne and thresher in operation. Surrounding engravings of Ransomes products including various types of portable engines, a traction engine and a stationary engine.
A handsome and rare old framed photo, ex a locomotive works office, of the experimental 10 coupled (0-10-0) ‘Decapod’ locomotive, the first and only example of this type ever built, and which was designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway in 1902.
£ P.O.A.
