Photograph, black and white, showing a drawing of military trials of a Thornycroft steam wagon
photograph of a drawing by Ernest Prater of a Thornycroft steam wagon taking part in military trials. Although originally labelled as 1956 this must be the December 1901 trials which started and ended at Aldershot in which Thornycroft entered 2 vehicles, No's. 6 & 7.
Ernest Prater (1864-1950) was an artist and book illustrator who had worked as a war correspondent and reportage artist during the Anglo-Boer War.
