The vintage ploughing scene has no shortage of fascinating characters, and Keith Atkinson is one of these - friendly, polite, and always willing to stop for a chat. He is one of the true gentlemen of the ploughing world.
Keith is usually to be found at ploughing matches quietly competing in the Ferguson Classes on his 1955 TE-F, which he has owned for the last eight years. However, he has been attracting a lot of attention wherever he goes recently, and this new-found fame is something that the ex-agricultural machinery fitter is rather unfamiliar with.
Attraction
The reason for all this attention is the little grey tractor that Keith has recently been appearing with. From the tinwork, this tractor looks like yet another Ferguson tractor, but the tinwork is about all that’s normal about this tractor! In place of the usual Standard Motor Company petrol engine, there is under the bonnet a series of large batteries which completely fill the gap where the engine would once have sat.
Before any purists jump up in alarm thinking that an original and perfectly good Ferguson was sacrificed for a
