it was the left hand ploughing engine of the pair 2528
and 2529 which were sold to The Derbyshire Steam
Cultivating Company of King Street, Derby in April 1875.
A notable share holder of the company was the Duke of Devonshire.
The engines worked in the South Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire area until 1899 when they moved to
Angrave and Burrows of Rempstone. In 1906 the business
of Angrave and Burrows was taken over by Beeby Brothers
of Rempstone who continued steam cultivation through
into the 1960s.

Beeby Brothers operated eleven sets of steam ploughing equipment, of which nine sets were early single cylinder Fowler engines. In order to continue using the engines well into the 20th Century, Beeby’s fitted new John Allen boilers to their ageing machines and are solely responsible for all the UK’s 14hp ploughing engines in preservation today.
Engine no 2528 was dismantled in the 1920s and was stored as spare parts for Beeby’s working engines. In 1988 Beeby Brothers sold most of their remaining ploughing equipment and the unidentified 2528 moved to Cornwall in the hands of Charles Daniel who saved the engine from certain scrapping. Charles began to build a new John Allen type boiler for the engine but in 2005 sold the part built boiler and mechanical parts to Richard Scourfield. He sold them on to Hal and Guy Debes, who with Dave Cope completed the boiler and carried out a full mechanical restoration of every part. The engine has now been restored the county where it started work 133 years earlier.
You can see more about restored steam engines at www.dspcrestorations.co.uk