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L.V. TRAIN STEAMING IN DRIVEN BY SIR ROY WELENSKY.


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S.V.PAN CABIN OF ENGINE.


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L.V. SIR ROY WELENSKY GETTING DOWN FROM DRIVERS CABIN.


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C.U. SIR ROY WELENSKY TAKING OFF DRIVERS CAP.


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L.V. GROUP ALIGHTING AT STATION FOR ROYAL SHOW.


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S.V. GROUP INCLUDING SIR ROY WELENSKY AND SIR EVELYN BARING.


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C.U. SIGNBOARD "FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND."


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L.V. SIR ROY WELENSKY LOOKING AT STANDS IN SHOW.


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G.V. SHOW STANDS, PEOPLE IN FOREGROUND.


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L.V. SIR ROY WELENSKY AND SIR EVELYN BARING AND OTHERS WALK PAST KENYA YOUNG FARMERS-STAND.


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G.V. AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY ON SHOW.


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S.V. SIR ROY WELENSKY INSPECTING RHODESIAN STAND.


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G.V. CROWD ON FIELD.


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L.V. SIR ROY WELENSKY DECLARING SHOW OPEN, SIR EVELYN BARING STANDING IN BACKGROUND.


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S.C.U. SIR ROY WELENSKY DECLARING SHOW OPEN, SIR EVELYN BARING STANDING IN BACKGROUND.


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S.V. CROWD APPLAUD.


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G.V. TRANSPORT TABLEAU LINED UP.


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S.V. SHOWING NATIVES SHOWING VARIOUS TRANSPORTING TABLEAUX.


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C.U. LOAD BEING PULLED BY BULLOCKS.


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S.V. SIR ROY WELENSKY AND SIR EVELYN BARING AND CROWD LOOKING ON.


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L.V. TABLEAU-NATIVES TRANSPORTING.


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L.V. CROWD LOOKING ON.


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S.V. PENNY FARTHING BICYCLE RIDDEN PAST CAMERA.


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L.V. CROWD LOOKING ON.


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C.U. TABLEAU DEPICTING RAILWAY BUILDING.


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L.V. PEOPLE IN FOREGROUND CHEERING RAILWAY ENGINE.


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S.V. SIR ROY WELENSKY AND SIR EVELYN BARING AND CROWD LOOKING ON.


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S.V. OLD TIME FORD "T" MODEL IN TABLEAU.




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Background: Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, arrived by steam train at the Kenya Royal Show and spent five hours touring exhibits and competitors before performing the opening ceremony, September 27. With Governor of Kenya Sir Evelyn Baring and other officials, he had arrived at the Mitchell Park Showground, Nairobi, on the footplate of "Mount Lengai", a 59-class locomotive, largest and most powerful on metre-gauge in the world.

During his morning and early afternoon tour of the ground, Sir Roy saw judging of farm exhibits and livestock and visited many colourful stands, including the Central African Federation stand. During lunch in the President's tent, he met officers of the Royal Rhodesian Air Force who later took part in a combined RAF-RRAF aerobatics display.

A total of more than 12,000 people were expected to attend the four-day 1958 show, sixth to be held at Mitchell Park and only the second in Kenya to have been opened by a Rhodesian statesman.

There was a spectacular pageant depicting the colony's history and Governor Baring paid tribute to the success of the show and the increasing participation of the African population. He remarked upon the country's good stock and high farming standards, noted that African farmers had "done well" with coffee and believed they would do well with tea in the future.