Tractor & Machinery

GOURNAY-en-BRAY and back!

A large group of tractor road runners from Gournay-en-Bray, Brittany, France are visiting the UK with their machines over 17-18 June. They are to twin with colleagues from the Chailey Tractor Club at the High Weald Steam Working Show at Heaven Farm, Farmers Green, Danehill, East Sussex TN22 3RG.

make a date and visit the rally and its special French tractor feature. It just might inspire you to take part, with your tractor, in the 2024 road run to France, you would be very welcome. In the meantime, Adrian Vaughan tells us about the Chailey Club’s amazing visit to the Gournay-en-Bray rally last year.

It was 2019 when an idea was borne. It immerged out of a mere mention, in passing, that Hailsham’s twin town was Gournay-en-Bray and they held a tractor run at their bi-annual town market. Next thing you know, Morna Cox on her little grey Fergie,

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