BORDERS VETERANS

Roy MacGregor lives in Dumfries and Galloway and has been collecting tractors for many years. Apart from his pair of old veterans, he owns a Massey-Harris Pony, a Case DC4, a couple of post-Second World War Renaults, and an International B-275, which was his first in the collection back in 1999.

He said: “I’m old enough to remember the days when farms brought in steam traction engines at harvest time. Things were different back then, and there was probably more of a community spirit. My family was allocated one of the Lend-Lease tractors during the war. As I recall, it was a Fordson N. A lot of farms were still using horses to work the land, but a change was on the way.”

Roy eventually stepped back from farming and got