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We all remember the first time we were let loose behind the wheel. Harry Keenan can recall his early driving experiences and how they inspired his passion for David Brown tractors of the early 1960s.
“I always had a love for David Brown tractors. When I was a child I learned to drive on an 880 four-cylinder. My legs were so short that I had to balance on the edge of the seat to reach the pedals and when I wanted to come to a stop, I had to jump onto the brakes and pull down on the steering wheel,” says Harry, recalling experiences that will be familiar to many.
“I grew up on a small mixed farm with about 40 Hereford-cross suckler cows, 10 acres of barley and 30 acres of spuds. Mechanisation was very basic in those days. We didn’t have a loader, so the Salopian ground-drive muck spreader was filled by manpower.
“Spraying potatoes to protect them against blight was done using a barrel where we mixed the copper sulphate or ‘blue stone’ and then pumped it by hand to nozzles on a boom that covered just three drills.
“At harvest time we had a spinner digging the spuds out and four or five gatherers working from Monday to Friday. On Saturdays there could have been another 20 or 25 people who were happy to
