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OLD TIME ENGINES

It would have been no surprise to the assembled guests that the wedding tradition of ‘something old’ would be some form of bygone transport.

Adam Horrocks’ red David Brown 990 tractor, which in later years was a guest at the company’s 50th and 60th anniversary celebrations, was his transport of choice which he drove, along with the trailer transporting his groomsmen, to the church for his nuptials at Wragby Church in the stunning surroundings of Nostell Priory near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in June 2015.

Adam explains the 1962 tractor had previously been pulled out of a hedge bottom before coming into his possession.

Its restoration has been a real family contribution as

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