7 Welcome
Looking back on an Easter weekend to remember.
8 Vintage performance!
On a fine spring day, the National Vintage Tractor Road Run in Cheshire on Easter Sunday turned out to be one of the best to date.
14 A wheelchair-friendly Fordson Dexta
Pete Henshaw comes across a Fordson Dexta that was converted to a wheelchair-lift special in 1961 and is still going strong.
18 Kiwi crawler record
After a gallant attempt at the Guinness world record for working tractors a few years ago, the New Zealanders have regained their pride by fielding a record 470 tracklayers and 33 excavators at Tapanui.
26 Malvern magic
Peter Love is delighted by what he finds when he revisits the Tractor World Show at Malvern that he started with Michael Hadley of the West Midlands NVTEC seven years ago.
32 Italian beauty
Jerry Thurston takes a close look at an immaculately kept four-wheel drive classic SAME tractor.
36 Alecs cuttings
More highly unusual tractors from the scrapbooks of Alec Worbey are described by Donald Bowler.
38 What are biofuels?
With the launch last autumn of the first tractors designed specifically to run on pure unprocessed vegetable oils, Jane Brooks puts these fuels under the microscope.
42 In partnership with nature
Peter Love visits Lower Pertwood Farm, on the Wiltshire Downs, where organic cereals, working horses and a rare vintage tractor collection can all be found.
48 Too little, too late...
Thats the story of the four-wheel drive Massey-Harris GP, a tractor out of its time and bedeviled by incomplete development. Mike Teanby tells the story.
50 History with a rusty hue
Robert Holts Hart-Parr 12-25 might be rust-coloured, but it runs like a watch, writes Pete Henshaw.
54 Farming in the 1950s
When John Blake took over the running of a Surrey farm from his late father in 1954, the outlook was daunting. He recalls the ups and downs of managing an attested Red Poll dairy herd along with pigs and poultry.
58 All in the family
Restored Zetor Crystals are a little thin on the ground, but down in East Sussex Peter Love comes across a small cluster of them.
62 Zetor implements
We look at the current line-up of implements for Zetor tractors, along with some of the machinery that was once offered, and some useful spare parts for the Czech classics.
64 Variety performance
David Bowers visits High Bentham, N Yorks, to catch a final glimpse of a load of rare tractors bound for Germany, and to examine the non-David Brown element of Doug Taylors impressive tractor collection.
70 Pigs might fly...
...and believe it or not, they sometimes do if their destination is Islay, writes Polly Pullar as she paints an exquisite picture of a Hebridean paradise.
76 The 39 steps - one forward, 38 back!
Harry Dodd checks the magneto and fuel system on a Fordson Standard N as the waiting game continues.
79 Letters
82 Crawler mayhem!
A bit of detective work quickly leads our smallholding correspondent Graham Hampstead to the reason behind a string of crawler tractor breakdowns.
86 Diary Dates
92 Model World
A French auction, a great show at Spalding and some superb new releases are described in our regular tractor modelling section.
98 Off the beaten track
If any fencing needs putting up in Snowdonia, there arent many parts that Elgan Metcalfes Scot-Track cant get to, writes Jo Roberts.
101 Reviews
Including a major new book by John Farnworth about the Massey-Harris-Ferguson merger and its aftermath.
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104 Mullahead delights
Peter Love brings our first report on the ever-growing Mullahead & District Ploughing Championships in Northern Ireland.
107 Wintry going
This years Carrington Rally Road Run was a test of endurance at times as snow, sleet and hail showers lashed Lincolnshire. Noel Bridgeman brings the first pictures.
108 Sales & Marketplace News
All the tractor auction prices - and theres been a lot to cram in this month!
120 Tractor Price Index
127 Tractor Marketplace
The place to buy tractors and everything associated with them.
138 Rare Breeds Factfile
Marianne Thomas describes the hardy Roussin sheep.
