Sheffield Daily Telegraph May 3, 1887
Traction Engine Offence
Andrew Burnistone, traction engine owner, of Conisborough, was fined 20 shillings and costs for not having a pilot in front of his traction engine at Denaby on the 16th ult.
Police Constable Midgley stated that he saw the defendant driving a traction engine in Doncaster Road, Denaby at 130 o’clock in the afternoon.
There was no man in front.