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Blodwen - one of the last of the few

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Archif Sgrin a Sain Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive
Established in 2001, the National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive holds an unrivalled collection of films, TV and radio broadcasts, video tapes and sound recordings relating to Wales and the Welsh, from 1898 to the present day. The collection spans multiples formats and genres, both professional and amateur.

Blodwen - one of the last of the few

Recorded for posterity: the partnership between Mr Herbert Bellis and Blodwen the Beautiful, one of the last steam rollers in operation.

Herbert Bellis and his fellow Flintshire County Council employees are fuelled for their work on the roads by tea and sandwiches but the fair Blodwen requires something more substantial. Her lunch – a bag of coal - arrives by special delivery, in a FCC van, and it keeps her rolling smoothly on, driven and maintained in all her steam-powered complexity by Bellis.

Herbert Bellis and his fellow Flintshire County Council employees are fuelled for their work on the roads by tea and sandwiches but the fair Blodwen requires something more substantial. Her lunch – a bag of coal - arrives by special delivery, in a FCC van, and it keeps her rolling smoothly on, driven and maintained in all her steam-powered complexity by Bellis.

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