No.2 finished!
It has been a very long and arduous process to complete a tractor that started out as an expensive, hopeless wreck, but David Aylward and his team in Hampshire have triumphed! It all began in 2018 when Pam and Graham Towndrow took a call from Exmoor Farmers Livestock Auctions Ltd. regarding what turned out to be the second Nuffield tractor off the production line in December 1948.
They recognised the Nuffield M4, serial number NT502, as the most important tractor that any Nuffield fan could own and decided that, as they run The Nuffield and Leyland Tractor Club, it would be the ultimate machine to have on display wherever they go.
Unfortunately, others recognised its importance too and despite it being a wreck it was hotly contested at the auction. It finally saw the hammer fall at £5,800, which made it the most expensive Nuffield M4 ever sold, even before the restoration had started!
Even the original wheels were rusted out, but David Aylward managed to find a used set to enable it to be shown on the club’s stand at the Newark Vintage Tractor & Heritage Show in 2018, where it created great interest.
Graham asked David if he would restore the tractor for
