The show was the penultimate chance for the club to celebrate this anniversary. The final show for members to celebrate this landmark year will be the Newark Vintage Tractor & Heritage Show on November 4-5.
Early Marshall products
The exhibits at Haddenham outlined the Marshall story and here we concentrate on the tractor development. By 1856 William Marshall’s two sons James and Henry Dickenson had entered the business and pestered their father to build portable steam engines to provide power for their thrashing machines and saw benches.
The first Marshall oil tractor was built in 1908 for the UK market and this was followed by larger tractors for export to the Colonies, but production ceased in 1914,
