Editing Traction engine (section)

==Traction engines in popular culture==
{{See also|Steamroller#Popular culture}}

'''In film'''
*The 1962 film ''[[The Iron Maiden]]'' featured a showman's engine as the film's star, along with many others, at the annual rally at [[Woburn Abbey]].
*In the 2004 film ''[[Tremors 4: The Legend Begins]]'', the people of Rejection, Nevada had a traction engine and were proud of it. During the final battle, two of the characters fired their guns from the traction engine, and the traction engine rammed and killed the last graboid.

'''In literature'''
*Trevor the Traction Engine is one of the non-railway characters featured in ''[[The Railway Series]]'' of children's books by the [[Wilbert Awdry|Rev. W. Awdry]]. Appearing in several of the books, the traction engine was originally 'saved from scrap' by The Vicar of Wellsworth with the help of [[Edward the Blue Engine]].  Trevor has also appeared in a number of episodes in the TV spin-off ''[[Thomas & Friends]]''. Another traction engine, [[Fergus the Railway Traction Engine]], also appears in ''Thomas & Friends'', but unlike Trevor, Fergus runs on rails instead of roads. Theo from ''Journey Beyond Sodor'' is based on a Brill Tramway No. 1.
*In the book ''Gumdrop and The Farmer's Friend'', by [[Val Biro]], the vintage motor-car [[Gumdrop (fictional car)|Gumdrop]] is rescued from a snowy ditch by "The Farmer's Friend", a traction engine belonging to a local farmer.  Some months later, the two vehicles are instrumental in thwarting a pair of car thieves. <BR>The end-papers of the book include a simplified cut-away drawing of the traction engine: a single-cylinder, 6&nbsp;nhp [[John Fowler & Co.|Fowler]] light tractor built in 1903.
*Traction engines for road haulage feature prominently in [[Keith Roberts|Keith Roberts']] alternate-history novel ''[[Pavane (novel)|Pavane]]''.
*In the 1960s, [[cutaway drawing]]s of traction engines by Geoffrey Wheeler featured in [[Eagle (British comics)|''Eagle'']] comics and a [[Blue Peter#Books|''Blue Peter'' annual]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=Jeremy Briggs |title=Geoffrey Wheeler Cutaways in Blue Peter Books |url=https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2011/03/geoffrey-wheeler-cutaways-in-blue-peter.html |access-date=8 January 2020 |date=10 March 2011}}</ref>

'''On television'''
[[File:Fred dibnah funeral.jpg|thumb|right|[[Fred Dibnah]]'s funeral procession (November 2004), headed by Dibnah's 1912 [[Aveling & Porter]]]]
*[[Fred Dibnah]] of [[Bolton]], [[England]], was known as a National Institution in [[Great Britain]] for the conservation of old traction engines and other steam engines. His television series ''[[Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain]]'' shows him touring the [[United Kingdom]] in his rebuilt 10-[[ton]] traction engine.
* In the television play ''[[Threads (1984 film)|Threads]]'', depicting the consequences of nuclear war in the United Kingdom, traction engines come back into use as petrol becomes unavailable.