WARTIME FARMING LEGENDS

Now the Second World War is a safe distance behind us, some of us have begun to see this period in history in a romantic light. Rather than focussing on the genuine horrors of war, we look through rose-tinted spectacles at the way people pulled together during this time, and how hardship brought out our strengths and united us.

Mechanisation

We see the old vehicles of the war in a romantic light too and have a soft spot for any tractor or truck that served us through our darkest hours. A vehicle which served its country during wartime has achieved the status of a veteran. This doesn’t just apply to military vehicles; it also applies to those tractors that tilled the land and helped feed us during those lean times. It is no wonder then that we Brits have a fondness for the Fordson Model N. By the time war began, the Model N was the most popular tractor in Britain, and it is generally thought of as the tractor that kept Britain farming during wartime.

Of course, larger lowland farms had been using tractors long before the