ONE OF A KIND
It’s not often that I come away from a visit with more questions than answers buzzing around in my head. But that was the case recently, following a trip to the Worcestershire farm that’s managed by tractor enthusiast extraordinaire, Jonathan Boaz.
I first came across the subject of this feature at last year’s Old Timer Tractor Rally, but knew nothing about its owner. As it turns out, Jonathan’s unusual, cabbed Fordson N is just the tip of the iceberg, in terms of the interesting machinery he owns.
He presides over a fantastic collection of more than 100 tractors – some of which are in his own museum – plus a fascinating assortment of hand tools, implements and other period curiosities, an ex-racing AJS motorcycle, a stationary engine with three-tonne flywheel, a Perkins diesel-engined Armstong Siddley limousine and much else besides. His farm is a mechanically-themed Aladdin’s cave, with a wonderful variety of tractors dominating the content.
"It was an old relic that I bought at one of the Cambridge vintage sales, probably 10 years ago"
TVO-powered N
However, I’d visited to focus on just one machine; Jonathan’s 1935, TVO-powered Fordson N, and began our conversation by asking when and where he’d found it? “It was an old relic that I bought at one of the Cambridge vintage sales, probably 10 years ago,” he
