Limited Edition Signed and Numbered Giclee Print

Size Framed: 860mm x 740mm

Additional notes:

Lord Darlington was a wealthy industrialist and Philanthropist, owning both coal mines and industrial engineering companies in the North East of England.

In 1900 he designed a magnificent walking machine in order to advertise the expertise of his engineering company and foundry.

In 1902 Samuel Heracles Gascoigne-Simpson was invited to County Durham 

to witness and record the spectacle of the first steaming and maiden run of Lord 

Darlington's magnificent folly, ‘The Astonishing Steam Rhinomotive’. 

A low bass rumble deep from within its bowels threatens to dislodge the very 

windows from the surrounding houses; boilers gurgle, gears clank and steam jets

 forth; filling the street with clouds of ungodly vaporous mist. Then - in a deafening 

crescendo of protesting shuddering metal - gears reluctantly engage and the 

magnificent iron beast  lurches forward, its master at the helm the only thing 

preventing total destruction of everything in its path.

(Eye witness account, Durham Chronicle October 1902)