I READ with interest your recent article relating to the coming Heritage Open Days in Tavistock.

While this is a new venture for those organisations mentioned in this article I would point out that the Robey Trust has been opening its doors to the public for this event over many years. The Robey Trust, as some will know, run Tavistock's annual steam fair and turn out their engines for the Tavistock Carnival.

We have been operating in this area for 30 years and have built up a national and international reputation for the quality of our work in preservation and restoration of steam rollers and traction engines but this is not all we do.

Our membership has a core group of dedicated engineers and enthusiasts working tirelessly to preserve these wonderful examples of a bygone, indeed a golden age of British engineering but we are not good at publicising what we do.

We have well equipped workshops in the town alongside a large display and assembly hall housing many stationary engines and other exhibits spanning much of the 19th century into the mid-20th century. Much of what you will see is work in progress as one might expect in a working factory museum. We also house an archive with information, engineering drawings and other interesting documents.

We are called the Robey Trust because we concentrate on products from the Robey Engineering Works in Lincoln which is itself now consigned to history.

Don Johnson

The New Perseverance Ironworks

Tavistock