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  • A47 steam engine towing three vehicles stopped at 5mph

    06/07/2022 3:45:21 PM PDT · by American Number 181269513 · 35 replies
    BBC ^ | June 7, 2022 | BBC
    The driver of a traction engine towing a long load was pulled over after holding up traffic at 5mph (8km/h) on a busy main road. The engine was towing a vintage caravan, a 4x4 and a trailer on the A47 near Trowse, Norfolk, on Monday. Police said traffic had been held up as the engine had been travelling so slowly on its 40-mile (65km) journey. "This amazing piece of engineering [was] towing an 'odd' combination of three 'trailers'," officers noted. Posting about it on Twitter, officers from the Norfolk and Suffolk Roads Policing Unit described this as "a different sort...