A full-page advert in the December 1950 issue of the Farm Implement & Machinery Review proclaimed in huge, bold type that 150,000 Ferguson tractors had been sold since 1946. No flowery nor eye-catching images could capture the effect Messrs Harry Ferguson, Ltd of Coventry was having on farm mechanisation at that time.
Indeed, FIMR stated that “the extremely comprehensive scale on which present-day mechanised farming problems are tackled by, will be convincingly demonstrated.” Although the Ferguson stand featured TE-A20 and TE-D20, tractors, implements and attachments were to the fore, demonstrating the full scope of the company’s range.
These included a relatively new 13-row universal seed drill,
