MARSHALL MANSFIELD MEET
The Marshall Club held its inaugural working weekend at the Bates family farm at Mansfield on September 4-5, 2021, writes Ian Palmer. Club members John Bateman and Andy Parker, who had held an impromptu working day at the Bates’s farm in 2020, had suggested the idea. Mansfield was an ideal location as it is situated more or less in the middle of England and was easily accessible to most club members.
In 1983, the Bates family had collected a brand new harvest gold Marshall 804 direct from the factory at Gainsborough, but the tractor was traded in some years later. Recently, they
