Several Gazette readers have sent in photos of a steamroller, which has been spotted passing through the town.

Paul Meredith said that it’s going to Townsend Farm for the Motley Hog Brewery Christmas Fayre being held next Saturday.

It appears to be a Aveling and Porter steamroller, first registered in July 1924.

Aveling and Porter was a British agricultural engine and steamroller manufacturer.

Thomas Aveling and Richard Thomas Porter entered into partnership in 1862 and developed a steam engine three years later in 1865.

By the early 1900s, the company had become the largest manufacturer of steamrollers in the world. The company used a rampant horse as its logo derived from the White Horse of Kent. In 1919 Aveling and Porter joined the Agricultural and General Engineers combine, shortly after 1924, the company started to decline in size.