Tractor & Machinery

Ploughmaster pilgrimage

It was a pleasure for Tractor & Machinery to be invited to John Sheppard and friends’ Blakesley Show Vintage Working Weekend on 10-11 September at Poplars Farm, Greens Norton, Northamptonshire, says Peter Love.

This was an excellent working event featuring a 1962-2022 Roadless Ploughmaster 6/4 and Ploughmaster 90 appreciation section. It was staged by Billy Wood with the help of Sam Chapman and Gary Rutter. It turned out to be a very well-organised event for these famous, pioneering four-wheel drive machines and everyone had a good time.

As a backdrop to the fine site there was

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