Bitza

Bitza is a one off showmans style steam wagon built from a number of bits of steam machinery. It is powered by a vertical boiler and a Bryan Donkin steam engine. It is road registered with the reg no. Q705 LEL.

Vehicle historyEdit

add details here Built in 1971(?) by J. Borthwick of Scotland.

In recent years it changed hands and has had some rebuilding work done.

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Some of the many events attended by this vehicle include;

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Steam Engines All Types (UK)	AGE - Allchin - Armstrong & Whitworth - Atkinson - Aveling-Barford - Aveling & Porter - Babcock & Wilcox - Blackstone - Barford & Perkins - Brown and May - Burrell - Clayton & Shuttleworth - Collins - Davey Paxman - Elston - Foden - Foreman Co. - Foster - Fowell - Fowler - Garrett - Gibbons - Gibbons & Robinson - Green - John Allen of Oxford - Lancashire Steam Motor Co. - Marshall, Sons & Co. - Merryweather - McLaren - Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies - Richard Hornsby & Sons - Robey - Robinson & Auden - Ruston Hornsby - Ruston Proctor - Savage - Sentinel - Taskers of Andover - Thornycroft - Tidman - Tuxford & Sons Ltd - Wallis & Steevens - Wantage Engineering Co.

Steam rollers	Albaret - William Allchin Ltd - Armstrong & Whitworth - Aveling-Barford - Aveling & Porter - Barford & Perkins - Babcock & Wilcox - Charles Burrell & Sons - Chataignier Aign et Cie(France) - Clayton & Shuttleworth - Fowler - Green - Ruston Hornsby - Taskers of Andover - Wallis & Steevens

Ploughing Engines	Allchin - Aveling & Porter - Fowler - Howard - John Allen of Oxford - McLaren - J & H Wilder - Ruston, Proctor and Company - Ruston Hornsby

Portable Engines	Aveling & Porter - Barrows - Belliss and Morcom - Blackstone - F. Clarke & Co. - Clayton and Shuttleworth - Crosskill - Davey Paxman - Deans - Eddington & Steevenson - Elston - Farmers Foundry - Foster - Garrett - Hindley - Holmes & Sons - Hornsby - Edward Humphries - Lampitt - Marshall, Sons & Co. - J.T. Marshall - Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies - Robey - Robinson & Auden - Ruston Proctor - Smith - Tuxford - Taskers of Andover - Youngs

Showmans road locomotives (number built/survive) Note: a lot of current showman's engines are conversions, done both during working life and in the preservation era.	Aveling & Porter(2/?) - Brown and May(?/1) - Burrell(207/?) - Foden(10/1) - Foster(68/7) - Fowler(83/20) - Garrett(5/1) - Richard Hornsby & Sons(1/none) - McLaren(16/1) - Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies(2/0) - Wallis & Steevens(13/0)

Steam wagons (Lorries)	Wm. Allchin Ltd - Atkinson - Aultman-Taylor - Bristol Steam Wagon - Clarkson - Clayton Wagons - Ellis - Foden - Garrett - Hindley - Lancashire Steam Motor Co./Leyland - Mann's Patent Steam Cart and Wagon Co. - Scammell - Sentinel - Taskers of Andover - Thornycroft - Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co.

Fairground center engines/Organ engines	W.H. Chester - McLaren - Savage - Tidman - Walker

American manufacturers	Advance Mfc Co./Advance-Rumely - Albaret - Aultman-Taylor - Avery Company - Avery and Russell & Co. - Buffalo Pitts - Buffalo-Springfield Co. - Case - Emerson-Brantingham - Erie - Frick - Gaar-Scott - Geiser - George White(Canada) - Huber - Iroquois - Minneapolis Threshing Co. - Nichols & Shepard - Peerless - Port Huron - Reeves - Rumely - Russell & Co. - Sawyer-Massey(Canada) - Waterloo(Canada)

European Manufacturers	Albaret(France) - Breloux - Brouhot & Co. - Chataignier(France) - Flother(Germany) - Hanomag(Germany) - Henninger(Germany) - Henschel(Germany) - Heucke(Germany) - Imperial(Germany) - Italo-Svizzera(Italy) - Jakobsens(Finland) - Kastrup Maskinfabrik(Denmark) - Kemna(Germany) - Lanz(Germany) - J. A. Maffei(Germany) - MAN(Germany) - Merlin et Cie(France) - Munktell(Sweden) - Ottermeyer(Germany) - Pecard(France) - Ruthemeyer(Germany) - Societe Francaise(France) - Vierzon(France) - Vølund(Denmark) - Weyher & Richemond(?) - Wolf(Germany) - Zettelmeyer(Germany)

Other countries	Johnson and Sons(Australia)

Steam Cars	Doble Steam Car - Grenville - McCready - Locomobile Steam Car - Stanley Steam Car - White Steam Car

Fire engines / Pumps	Merryweather - Shand-Mason - William Rose

New Build manufacturers	Belmec International - Dawson Brothers - Dream Machines - Foreman Co. - Great Northern Steam - Steam Traction World

Custom built steam vehicles	Bitza - Bregazzi steam buggy - Calders steam van - Figment of the Imagination - Spider Wagon - Typhoo

Contractors	Beeby Brothers - Bomford & Evershed - Dingles - Eddison Steam Rolling Co. - Eversheds - Isaac Ball(Threshing & Rolling) - Norman Box & Co.(Haulage & Ploughing) - Oxford Steam Plough Co. - Pickfords(haulage) - Ward & Dale + ?

Ancillary equipment mfc.	Allen of Oxford (Scarifiers) - Budenberg(Gauges) - Fowler(Ploughs) - Hetherington & Co.(Lamps) - Morrison (Scarifiers)

See also List of Diesel Engine Manufacturers- Museums List - Steam Fairs & Rallies (also called 'Live Steam' in the USA) - Engineering Models/Scale Steam Engine Models Gallery

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