0 a large, heavy vehicle, operated by steam power, used especially in the past for pulling heavy loads along roads --
However, it was deemed too impractical to move intact, and was brought down by steel cables attached to traction engine.
Traction engine rotor is connected with a gear train through the rigid clutch (rubber cord shell).
It was cut into eleven sections and rolled on logs towed by a traction engine, an operation that took two days.
The frame carrying the church was then dragged by a traction engine over the runners and into the road.
In later years a traction engine ran the mill via a pulley wheel on the outside of the building.
That county has to maintain that particular main road at a high standard of efficiency, and at great cost in order to take motor-car, traction engine, and other traffic.
It was to inform the public of the rather chaotic and archaic position of speed limit legislation, most of which dates back twenty-five years to the steam traction engine era.
He has a traction engine in his garden, and in his wood shed he has something horrible sticking out that he messes about with from time to time.
