Editing Steamroller (section)

==Popular culture==
Two popular American bands were named after steamrollers, [[Buffalo Springfield]] and [[Mannheim Steamroller]]. [[Parni Valjak]] (trans. ''Steamroller'') is the name of the popular Croatian and Yugoslav rock band, and the group has used the name Steam Roller on their English language releases.<ref name="janjatović223">{{cite book|last=Janjatović|first=Petar|title=Ex YU rock enciklopedija 1960-2023|year=2024|publisher=self-released / Makart|location=Belgrade|page=223}}</ref>

Two different steamrollers appear as prominent characters in the ''[[Thomas & Friends]]'' television series; George and Buster, both of whom are based on the Aveling-Barford R class design.

British [[steeplejack]] and engineering enthusiast [[Fred Dibnah]] was known as a national institution in Great Britain for the conservation of steam rollers and traction engines. The first engine he restored to working order was an [[Aveling & Porter]] steam roller, registration no. DM3079. Built in 1912, it was a 10-ton slide-valve, single-cylinder, 4-shaft, road roller.<ref>[http://www.fred-dibnah.co.uk/Betsy.htm Fred Dibnahs roller 'Betsy'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061216163418/http://www.fred-dibnah.co.uk/Betsy.htm |date=16 December 2006 }}</ref> Originally named "Allison", after his first wife, Fred renamed the engine "Betsy" (his mother's name) following his divorce – Fred's view being "wives may change but your mother remains your mother!" This roller was featured in many of Fred's early television programmes. It may still be seen at steam rallies in Britain and was in steam at the [[Great Dorset Steam Fair]] in 2011.
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Author [[Terry Pratchett]] instructed his collaborator [[Neil Gaiman]] that anything Pratchett had been working on at the time of his death should be destroyed by a steamroller. Pratchett's daughter and literary executor Rhianna Pratchett also stated that she had no desire to try to finish her father's work or continue the ''[[Discworld]]'' franchise without him. Accordingly, Pratchett's assistant Rob Wilkins brought Pratchett's computer hard drive to the [[Great Dorset Steam Fair]], where a steamroller was driven over it.<ref>{{cite news |last=Convery |first=Stephanie |date=30 August 2017 |title=Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/terry-pratchett-unfinished-novels-destroyed-streamroller |access-date=17 September 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>