Great Dorset Steam Fair
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The Great Dorset Steam Fair is an annual show featuring steam powered vehicles and machinery. The fair has been held in Dorset, England, every summer since 1968, currently at Tarrant Hinton near Blandford Forum. It now covers 600 acres and runs for five days from the Wednesday after the UK August bank holiday. It is reputedly the largest outdoor show in the world. The most common exhibits are traction engines, tractors and farm machinery, but also included are preserved railway engines, cars and commercial vehicles, and shire horses. The show also has a market, autojumble, live music and funfair (some of which is powered by the steam engines). The show is run by Martin Oliver through Great Dorset Steam Fair Ltd.
A speciality of the show is the display of traction engines and steam rollers performing the work for which they were designed. Such displays include heavy haulage, threshing, sawing logs, ploughing and road-making. One of the main displays is the "Showmans Line up", which is thought to be the largest collection of Showmans engines in the world.
The fair is not to be confused with the Portland Steam Fair, a similar fair held at Southwell Park on the Isle of Portland every year.
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