END OF AN ERA
While there’s ever-growing interest in the modern-looking, straight-edged styling of Massey Ferguson tractors from the 100 Series and beyond, it’s good to know that there are still many enthusiasts with plenty of time for the more curvaceous, earlier models. Machines such as the MF 35 hark back to a more traditional era of rural life, punctuated by harvest festivals, village cricket and Saturday night dances in the dusty village hall. Things were simpler in the years following the Second World War, life was lived at a slower pace as people settled back into their normal lives and, in some respects, the tractors of the period reflected that.
Nevertheless, manufacturers like Massey Ferguson fully appreciated the way things were heading, and could foresee the revolution that was set to transform agriculture over the coming decades. The arrival of its Red Giants range in the mid-1960s was to herald the start of a significant change in the way in which the British countryside was farmed. Fields were to get larger, implements became bigger and heavier and Massey Ferguson busied itself delivering the more powerful and weighty tractors that would enable farmers to boost productivity and efficiency.
