Tractor & Farming Heritage

SHOOTING THE FE 35

In March 1956, I reported for work at Fletch (the Massey Ferguson Fletchamstead Highway site) early one Sunday morning for the first viewing of the FE 35 tractor with three of the engineering team. This was led by Bill Beattie, the foreman, and engineers Norman Dorrans and Johnnie Gore. The photographic team was led by Bill Felton, my boss, Tony Whitehead, the senior photographer, and myself as the junior photographer.

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