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The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
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Michael Craig
Jack Hopkins
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Anne Helm
Kathy Fisher
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Jeff Donnell
Miriam Fisher
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Alan Hale Jr.
Paul Fisher
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Noel Purcell
Admiral Sir Digby Trevelyan
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Cecil Parker
Sir Giles Thompson
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Roland Culver
Lord Upshott
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Joan Sims
Nellie Trotter
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John Standing
Humphrey Gore-Brown
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Brian Oulton
Vicar
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Sam Kydd
Fred Trotter
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Judith Furse
Mrs. Webb
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Richard Thorp
Harry Markham
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Jim Dale
Bill
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George Woodbridge
Sid Ludge
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Ian Wilson
Sidney Webb
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Brian Rawlinson
Albert - Village Constable
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Douglas Ives
Charlie
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David Aylmer
Thompson's Salesman
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Peter Burton
Thompson's Salesman
