Tractor & Farming Heritage

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Neil Reid from Angus is a qualified engineer and was brought up in the Tayside area. Where he lives is a rural community, and tractors play an important part in everyday life.

DB dealership

“When I left school in the early Eighties, I served my time at a local David Brown dealership,” he recalls. “The tractors were popular, and I learned about them from the bottom up. I then worked on other types of vehicles for the next few years, including Volkswagen and Audi. Then I decided to specialise in hydraulics. I started my family engineering business Reid Hydraulic Services LTD (RHS) in

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