Hi Kelly, I suppose it was because we did not have the railways and the petrol engine was not a reliable unit back in the late 1800's. We were also the world leaders in steam engine production. My first boss used to run a transport business, carrying fresh vegetables from Norfolk to London markets with a Sentinel Steam lorry on solid tyres. It was 100 miles each way at around 15 mph, and it took all day there and back.
In my early childhood the roads in the village were tar and gravel. A local contractor had a fleet of steam Sentinel tar lorries that used to spray hot tar which was then covered with gravel chippings then rolled into place by an Avelin Barford steam roller. And, of course, what local railways we had were all powered by steam.
We had some of the large steam engine builders like Burrells and Savages locally and most small towns had steam engine manufactures making stationary engines for farm power of the threshing, grinding and chopping side of food production and most villages had a steam powered saw mill up until the 1940's.
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