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CHRONOLOGY
1955 : salvation by Jean-pierre et René of the first Bernard WO engine :
back in service at the Giverny mill.
1956 : salvation at uncle Aimé house of a Benjamin engine Back in service.
196o : purchase (7.62eu) at Vernon scrapper a Vendeuvre diesel frozen Cracked : no success.
1967 : purchase by Daniel et Jean-pierre a CL Conord frozen cracked. No success, used as spare parts.
1968 : purchase by Daniel et Jean-pierre of Albaret portable steam Engine at Vesly 25 kms on the road.

1970 : Daniel death ; activities on sleep.
1972 ; Adolphe : partial reconstruction on Albaret.
1974 : Adolphe death : closing of the blacksmith workshop.
1975 : restoration on Albaret by Jean-pierre.
1976 : completion Albaret by Gérard.
1982 : first exhibition at ECOS agricultural show.
1983 : first big moving : a Ruston 5HR from Meaux to Giverny.

1984 : purchase first tractor : Farmall cub.
1989 : Great dorset steam fair exhibition :
transport, custom over the channel.
1990 : installation of the actual museum. |