Giles Family

Clarkville

North Canterbury, New Zealand


Robert James Reid


Robert James Reid's Marshal engine and mill. Robert James standing on the engine.

 

Robert (Bob) James Reid’s McLaren 351, 8HP compound engine with sprung wheels,

Clayton & Shuttleworth Mill, whare (sleeping quarters), cook house, horse and water joey.

Robert James (Bob) Reid (Robert James Reid's son) leaning on engine.

 

Robert (Bob) James Reid's McLaren single cylinder, 8HP engine with sprung wheels

commencing to thresh a stack of grain (wheat or barley)

 

Robert (Bob) James Reid's Foden engine and mill with a large stack of bagged grain

 

Robert (Bob) James Reid's Burrell single cylinder, 8HP engine with round front axles.

Cook with fresh scones. (Bob sitting 7th from left)

 

Robert (Bob) James Reid's portable sawmill breaking down bench driven by his Burrell engine.

 

Robert (Bob) James Reid's Burrell single cylinder engine pulling Thomas Henry Reid's (brother)

Andrews & Beavan 'Empire' chaffcutter. Robert James (Bob) Reid on engine.

Note small boy with fox terrier on chaffcutter.

 

James Reid's sons and others. Ernest Reid's Foden engine and mill.

L to R: James Reid, Ernest Merven Reid (son), Eric Norris Reid (son), Alan Arthur Reid (son),

Frederick George Paget (son-in-law), Jimmy Gillan, John Henry Reid (brother), Sandy Bowden,

Lawrence Edgar Reid (son)


Brian W Smith, P O Box 40351, Upper Hutt, New Zealand

Email: knightsmith(at)xtra.co.nz


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