CASE COMPLETE READER’S RESTO

I bought the Case R in 1974, the same week I started courting my wife. It stood behind the Fox and Hounds Pub just outside Thaxted (now an old people’s home). I noticed it when I drove past on a tractor and could see the Case over the hedge together with a saw bench. The tractor looked in a very rough condition.

Quite rare

The next Saturday afternoon, I went to see the landlord, Jim Saunders. Besides keeping the pub, he worked for the local earthmoving contractor, Mr Bent Marshall, Stebbing, where he spent most of his working life driving Caterpillar tractors. I asked Mr Saunders if he would be interested in selling the tractor, as I knew it was a Case R and quite rare at the time. He was