Club Open Weekend 25/26 and 27th October 2024 (The last one this year)
The Museum will be open from 10a.m. with food andrefreshments available.
There is FREE entry and FREE parking for this event so come and join us and have a look around.
Fish and Chip Supper 9th November 2024
Summer Bank Holiday Opening
The club and Museum will be open 24th, 25th and 26th August with a Tractur Run on Sunday 25th
.Free parking and free entrance all day with lots to see as well as all the usual exhibits. Food and Refreshments available.
Tractor Run 14th July 2024
A Tractor Run took place on Sunday 14th July from the Club Yard to the Triumph Museum at Hinckley.
We raised £160 for Kidney Research. A well deserved, big thank you to Lorraine Clark and all the members that took part.
Club Open Weekend 27th, 28th July 2024
As usual the Club and Museum will be open the last weekend in July.
This month, due to staff holiday there will only be sandwiches and drinks available in the morning. From 12 noon Sausage, Egg and Chips will be available so come along, don't starve and enjoy the exhibits and atmosphere. Refreshments available, Free Entrance and Parking all day.
Club Open Day in June
Following the success of our recent Open Weekend we will be open for a one day event on Sunday 30th June 2024.
The club and facilities will all be open and will include a Tractor Run.
Free admission and parking with refrteshments available.
Open Weekend
The Club and Museum will be open to visitors Saturday 25th, Sunday 26th and Monday 27th May 2024. Additionally there is a Tractor Run on the Monday
The Museum will be open from 10a.m. with refreshments available.
There is FREE entry and FREE parking for this event so come and join us and have a look around.
Crank Up Weekend
The Club and Museum will be open to visitors Saturday 27th, Sunday 28th April 2024.
The Museum will be open from 10a.m. with refreshments available.
There is FREE entry and FREE parking for this event so come and join us and have a look around.
___1st January 2024 Crank Up and Tractor Run.__
The Museum will be open from 10a.m. with refreshments available.
There is FREE entry and FREE parking for this event so come and join us and have a look around.
_________Club Open Weekend - Free Entry______________
The Club will be open to visitors on Saturday and Sunday 30th September and 1st October 2023.
The Museum and buildings will all be open with food and refreshments available. Lots of displays to view and wonder about. All welcome - FREE Entry
Tractor Road Run 29thOctober
***********************Raising funds for the Air Ambulance****************
Now the harvest is in, and all you vintage tractor owners out there, join us for a Tractor Road Run on Sunday 29th October 2023. Entry is FREE.With donations towards the Air Ambulance
********** Bank Holiday Weekend 25th, 26th and Monday 27th May 2023**********
The Club hosted an Open Weekend on Saturday 25th until Monday 27th May 2023, with exhibits throughout. The Museum and buildings were all open with food and refreshments available. There was a Tractor Road Run on Sunday 26th May commencing at 10:30 a.m. . Everbody was welcome, to come and have a browse and a chat. Free entry with funds raised for the club and the Air Ambulance.
Tomorrows antiques collected today - Wolsey Hornet
Tomorrows antiques collected today - PO Bike.
Here we have a bicycle, used for delivery by the Post Office (Royal Mail) for decades. A common sight, even now but for how long? Another great addition to our Museum.
Presentation of a cheque to the Air Ambulance 2021
Presentation of the cheque took place on Saturday 9th October 2021 at the meeting place and yard at Woodside Farm, Twycross and was attended by 21 members. The cheque for £800 was presented by Robert Vero, land owner, to Colin Measom, a volunteer with The Air Ambulance Service who was accompanied by his wife, Aileen, also a volunteer. The money was raised from a charity tractor run on August Bank Holiday Sunday as part of a rally organised by The Central Midlands Vintage Stationary Engine Society.
Yesterdays antiques collected today - Land Girls Bicycle
Here we have a very old Bicycle. The paintwork is original and we believe it to be a Land Girls machine. Let us know if you recognise the style as something different. It will go in the Museum alongside a Butchers Bike.
Also we hope to have fresh in to the Museum a Ferguson 35 Petrol Parafin Tractor circa 1959 (yes thats all we currently know about it). Just arrived this 1957 Allis-Chalmers b. The model b was produced to replace the horse on the numerous American small farms. It was very successful.
The model b
Tomorrows antiques collected today - Peugeot
Tomorrows antiques collected today - Tins
New (to us) shelving has enabled us to show the collection of historic tins and containers to better effect. If you find an old tin that you think would add something to the collection then bring it along.
The Fire
On 27th Decvember 2017 in the early hours we were informed that the Club workshop was ablaze.
The Workshop, Blacksmiths shop and Storage sheds were completely destroyed along with the Static caravan.
Fortunately no one was hurt, the Fire briage and Fire officer prevented the fire from spreading to the main Museum building and the rest of the site.
Our thanks to the Emergency services for their prompt and efficient responce.
Along with the Landlord, the decision is to rebuild the Workshops - Bigger and Better.
British National Ploughing Championships 2019
British National Ploughing Championships 2018
Over 250 champion ploughmen and women from throughout Great Britain converged on the village of Austrey near Atherstone in Warwickshire on 13th and 14th October for the 68th British National Ploughing Championships. Gale force winds and rain over the two days failed to dampen the enthusiasm. 250 acres of Tractors, Horses and Steam Engines all devoted to ploughing was a sight to behold.
Bobs Engine Club members and their exhibits formed a major part of the static display and can be seen in the videos that follow. The Tea,Coffee and Sunday Soup provided to members and friends were most welcome.
Here we have a Drone's eye view of the buildings and geography of the club and associated buildings in June 2018. The heap of rubble is the remains of theworkshop buildings that were destroyed in the fire. As can be seen we have started on the new foundations, we are rebuilding the workshop, bigger and better.
We are now on Facebook, so please click on the Logo to see what we look like on Social Media. Please give us a 'Like'whilst you are there. We are told it helps, like a shot of Redex in the tank!
The Club
The Club The club started in 1997, it’s aims are the restoration and presentation of old stationary engines, or barn engines as they are sometimes known, including any relevant farm machinery and equipment, vintage collections and memorabilia. We have members with Barn engines, tractors, motor bikes, cars, working and static displays as well as models. For example we have collections of Tilley lamps, old cameras, a collection of milk churns, vintage lawn mowers, wooden toys, blow lamps, kitchen and laundry equipment, working miniature steam, cycles and auto cycles; in fact all things vintage!
Meetings Meetings are held on the second Friday of every month, except for December, at Woodside Farm, Orton Lane, Twycross, Leicestershire CV9 3HA from 7.30PM onwards. In December the club holds a social event on a Saturday night, attendance is not obligatory, but all are made very welcome – tea and coffee come free of charge. Other refreshments are on sale and a raffle is held to help defray the cost of the evening.
Membership Cost of membership is £25 per year, the membership fee includes a £5,000,000 public liability insurance, covering any rally or show in the British Isles providing members adhere to the safety code. At most shows and rallies proof of insurance will be asked for, it is therefore advisable to carry your membership card to all shows. Also included with you club membership is N.F.U. Countryside membership, allowing access to their stands, usually at agricultural shows.
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Contact For further information please contact the secretary, whose details are on the contact page. Other clubs are very welcome to join us on our show days. For further information please contact the secretary. Details as above.
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