1909 historic Ruston - Proctor steam shovel working.
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This rail mounted steam shovel is believed to be the only working example of it's type in the World.
It was recovered in 1977 by Ray Hooley from a chalk pit in Arlesey, County Bedfordshire which supplied a cement works. It was used as a face shovel and was one of two that worked the quarry until the 1920s.
Two examples of this machine worked the quarry and both were abandoned when the pit closed in the 1930's. during WW2 the shovel on the upper level was recovered for scrap but the one on the lower level was abandoned due to being submerged and hard to reach.
After recovery in 1977, the steam shovel was restored at Ruston's Lincoln works by 1980, and was given on permanent loan to the museum of Lincolnshire life. By 2008 after the machine falling into disrepair, Ray Hooley gave the shovel to the Vintage excavator trust located at Threlkeld quarry in Cumbria who have restored it to it's former glory with the assistance of a National lottery grant.
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