The Iron Maiden

The film follows Jack Hopkins played by Michael Craig an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines His boss played by Cecil Parker is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher Alan Hale Jr The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly and tensions only heighten after Fishers daughter Kathy Anne Helm damages Jacks 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 Jacks plight and joins him in driving the engine the two soon become firm friends