Behind the history of Tractor Sales & Service (March) is the story of George Miller, my father, who was a Fordson tractor enthusiast. George (1898-1995) came from humble beginnings; he was born in Wimblington, Cambridgeshire, into a farming family and left school at the age of 11 to be a chaff-carrier. During the First World War he fought at Ypres with the Royal Horse Artillery.
In 1923 he purchased a smallholding and his first Fordson tractor. Working as a ploughing contractor until 1927, he then joined the Fordson