This is what Peter wrote: In the December 2023 edition of Old Glory there was a feature on Eddie Fox’s 1914 Robey 6hp traction engine No. 33346, Z200, which returned to the UK for ten-year maintenance which I understand is now complete. I have a special connection to this engine, as a photo of it was displayed in my parents’ house for many years. In addition to this, I found a few more photos of it in an old album which my father Stanley took while working in Ireland during the 1950s.
Before his time in Ireland he was a chief engineer in the Royal Navy Rescue Tugs Service. During WW2 his tug escorted the convoys of merchant ships across the North Atlantic. If a ship couldn’t be fixed at sea, it was towed to Canada, Ireland or the UK. He wrote a detailed account of his adventures’ and the day to day life of a marine engineer in the 1940s. I published his account in a book called Rescue Tugs At War (Old Glory will look at this book in our next issue).
Father had a lifelong passion for steam engines. In the 1950s he was a sales representative for the Caltex Oil Company. Caltex began as a joint venture in 1936 between the, asking like minded enthusiasts to contact him.
