LEGACY LIVES ON

Their interest stems from their father, Fred Jackson, who had a keen interest and was an early preservationist. Alan has a photograph of himself, aged two or three, posing against the front wheel of one of Beeby’s single-cylinder ploughing engines at the 1955 Rempstone Rally.

The Jackson family have owned four engines over the years, but Alan and Frank have undertaken restoration work on the two they presently own, Wallis & Steevens No. 2489 of 1900 and Marshall No. 17328 of 1889.

The Marshall was found by Fred and three friends who clubbed together to purchase it in 1961, because he could not afford the £60 purchase price! “It was in a very poor condition and, as a small boy, I could remember standing at the back of it and seeing daylight out of the front,” recalls