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===Thornycroft 'Nippy' lorry===
[[File: FoKTS_Thornycroft_20150214.jpg|thumg|300px|right|Thornycroft 'Nippy' information poster]]A Thornycroft 'Nippy' lorry and a collection of spares were originally purchased by Paul Fathers, Mick Osborne and Mick Yarker from a scrapyard in Shrewsbury on the late 1970s, with a tree growing through the cab by way of a bonus. It came into the possession of the [[Friends of Kidderminster Town Station]] in 2003.<ref>FoKTS website via Internet Archive Wayback Machine</ref> The information poster shown was displayed by the Friends in 2014, at which time it was still in the course of restoration.
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===Scammell Mechanical Horse===
[[File:Scammell ELH 490.jpg|thumg|300px|right|Scammell ELH 490 at Kidderminster. Photo: SVR]]
[[File: FoKTS_Scammell_20150214.jpg|thumg|300px|right|Thornycroft 'Nippy' information poster]]Scammell Mechanical Horse ELH 490 is maintained by the [[Friends of Kidderminster Town Station]]. This type of three-wheeled tractor unit was used with a detachable open trailer. They were a common sight at main line stations such as [[Kidderminster mainline station|Kidderminster]] where they were used to move goods around the station yard and to make deliveries to local customers.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205182426fw_/http://www.kfriends.org.uk/projects/scammel.htm FoKTS website via Internet Archive Wayback Machine]</ref>
The concept of the Mechanical Horse tractor unit, with an easily detached articulated trailer, was conceived in the early 1930s by Napier & Son. The London and North Eastern Railway had approached Napier's, the quality car and aero-engine makers, for an answer to the problem of replacing horses for local haulage purposes, while retaining the flexibility of changing the wagons and the manoeuvrability of the horse and wagon.<ref>SVR Facebook, 3 June 2018</ref>
It was first restored in 1974. The information poster shown was displayed by the Friends in 2014, at which time it was receiving a major overhaul.