Robey Trust Perseverance Iron Works

The Robey Trust , based at the New Perseverance Ironworks, is a charity dedicated to continuing the traditions of the Robey Engineering Company of Lincoln. This involves not only the maintenance in working order of many Robey engines, the vast majority of them steam engines, but also continuing and transmitting to coming generations the expertise required to preserve and run these machines. There is a wider aim of encouraging public access to and understanding of steam technology.

There are seventeen stationary engines with a wide variety of backgrounds, industrial and institutional and five mobile engines which are often on display at some distance from the site.

Robey General Purpose Traction Engine No 33348

Exhibited at the 1914 Belfast and Dublin shows and bought by Henry Fox of Kilternan. Once it ceased to be used it remained on the family farm in Ireland until bought by the Robey Trust in 1986 and restored in Tavistock to full working condition.