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    Postbag LETTERS, E-MAILS, TWEETS & POSTS

    Jun 19, 2020 4 minutes
    WRITE to the editor: Scott Lambert, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL

    EMAIL: tm.ed@kelsey.co.uk

    SAFETY CABS

    Dear T&M,
    Having read the May edition about tractor cabs, it reminded me of my temporary attachment as an agricultural engineering student to the Research & Engineering section of Ford at Basildon, in the summer of 1968.

    Jonathan Whitlam’s description of a ‘noisy, vibration-ridden metal box’ brings back memories! As he wrote, cabs were in their infancy and one of the projects I was involved with was researching how to make them quieter.

    This involved the following process: Padding would be placed in various places in the cab and then I would drive a tractor around the test track at Dunton with a microphone

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