March 2024

Tractor & Farming Heritage

Celebrating the history and development of the tractor

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Sounds Of The Countryside
If I think of a vintage rally, one of the first sounds I associate with these events is the sound of a Field Marshall tractor. The distinctive sound could be heard all over the showground as one of these tractors powered a thrashing box as part of a
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Contributors This Issue
Professional heritage writer based in Wales. Roving reporter and technical writer. Editor of your favourite Tractor magazine. Author and agricultural industry journalist. Also, thanks to Ben Phillips, Nick Baldwin, Peter Love, Bob Weir, Graham Hampst
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Nuffield Legacy
These days, Nuffield means an Oxford college and numerous healthcare institutions rather than agricultural machinery. Lord Nuffield was a generous benefactor thanks to the fortune he had made as plain old William Morris in the Twenties. His Morris ca
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Landmark Call For Evidence
JCB has called on industry leaders to get behind the Government’s call for evidence on how non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) might be powered in the future. Evidence is being sought on how NRMM might decarbonise as part of the Government’s wider net z
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Shropshire Celebration
Sunday, March 17 will see the 25th Shropshire Vintage Tractor Run, writes David Spruce of the Bridgnorth Vintage Machinery Club. Around 150 vintage tractors will take on a route in and around Bridgnorth and end up in Bridgnorth High St at lunchtime,
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Bigger, Better
One of the biggest and most popular events on enthusiasts’ calendars, Tractor World, returns to the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 February 2024, with this year’s show seeing even more exhibitors, trade stands, dis
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Snippets
The Eriskay Pony Society has been gifted a stallion, Cnwc Ainsley, by his breeder, Jo Evans, for him to be used for the good of the breed. society chairman Steve McMinn says: “The society is very grateful to Jo for this generous gift, and we will be
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Welcome
In this issue, I am pleased to showcase more diverse elements from the world of heritage. The first of those I would like to point out is Nick Baldwin’s article on Nuffield tractors (page 12), delivered in his own inimitable style. Sadly, Nick passed
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Stebbing Vintage Tractor Run
The 11th Stebbing Vintage Tractor Run is set to take place on Sunday, May 12. Once again, the run will be raising money for Essex & Herts Air Ambulance says organiser Dick Hughes. Last year, the magnificent sum of £11,662.82 was handed over. The run
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Classic Canadian
Philip De Quincy from Shropshire has been collecting tractors since 2010 and owns one of the few surviving Thirties Cockshutt Hart-Parrs. “The family has lived here for many years, but we stopped farming in the Eighties,” he explained. “Although we h
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HIGH & NARROW
When I first met Steve Watts, he had a collection of “random” tractors. Although this eclectic collection was extremely interesting and full of variety, Steve has since changed his tactics and now focuses on collecting Ferguson and early Massey Fergu
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THE DALES & FELL PONIES
I feel blessed to have walked many thousands of miles across the moors and fells of Northern England without serious incident yet cannot claim to have seen more than a handful of ponies during all my travels. When I did, it was merely a glimpse of th
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Ferguson/culverwell Sack Lifter
We know that part of Ferguson’s success in the agricultural market was achieved because he offered an entire “package” and, alongside his tractors, he also supplied a vast range of implements, accessories, and attachments. This extensive range of add
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New Site For High Weald Steam
The big hit rally-wise in 2023 had to be the mid-June High Weald Steam Working at Danehill, Sussex. In just two years, the event had outgrown the site, and it was time to find a bigger site. The Ian Langley-Dave Mansi team has found Pippingford Park
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In the FARMING 1950 NEWS
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 Fer
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Nick Baldwin An Appreciation
I first came to know Nick Baldwin through others as he was part of the Old Motor team, the UK’s pioneer transport preservation magazine, starting in the mid-Sixties. In the late Seventies, I first met this cool, knowledgeable character when I was the
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Winds Of Change
Each day I walked through the allotment, checking how far my new wellies had sunk into the mud. And each day they sunk a little less. I fitted in the welly/mud test in with my mole-catching campaign. I carry all my mole-catching kit in an old plastic
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Farewell David Brown
This month I should have been sorting out some bits and pieces on the David Brown, or should I say more than I have. The ignition/starter switch needed changing because a certain “numpty” broke the key off in the switch barrel the last time I used th
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2024 Sales Diary
13-23 - Timed Online Auction of John Deere Tractors, Telescopic Loader, Balers, Grassland Machinery, Trailers & Implements. Worcestershire. Cheffins, www.cheffins.co.uk 13-26 - Timed Online Vintage Auction of Ferguson Tractors, Implements & Spares.
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Next Month
It was a bold idea to change the look of the Massey Ferguson tractor forever and it also set the standards for what would follow when the 100 Series, was finally launched towards the end of 1964. The Ford Motor Company had planned for 1964 to be a ve
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Product Reviews
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