3 Welcome
Why its important to ensure that next years National Vintage Tractor Road Run is one of the most successful ever.
5 A perfect Ploughmaster
Faultless attention to detail has made David Kerrigans 1964 Roadless 6/4 Ploughmaster a worthy show winner, writes David Bowers.
12 Electric ploughing, Soviet style
Donald Bowler highlights more curiosities from the scrapbook cuttings of Hertfordshire farmer and collector Alec Worbey.
16 David Brown 50D is Cheffins star
Despite the recession, prices held firm at the 18 October Cheffins collective sale, with a top price of £31,200 paid for an original looking David Brown 50D.
21 News
30 Welsh celebration
The All Wales Ploughing Championships returned to their roots near Presteigne, mid Wales, for a 50th birthday to remember.
38 Caterpillar centenary
Some of the most historic heavy metal on earth strutted its stuff at a tractor extravaganza at Woodland, California, to celebrate the centenary of Benjamin Holts first caterpillar crawler.
44 Case C dream that came true
Jerry Thurston tells how a dream came true for Dan Bartle when he finally acquired an unrestored 1935 Case C with a cleverly made cab from the remains of a coach-built Alvis car.
48 County Durham, here we come!
Pete Kelly enjoys a tractor road run through the wonderful scenery of County Durham, where next Easters National Vintage Tractor Road Run will take place - and theres an entry form as well!
52 A Christmas carol - Highland-style!
With some stunning wintry photography, Polly Pullar revisits some of the ghosts of Christmas past, and wonders what this years festive season will bring.
56 Saved from the grave!
David Bowers tells of the remarkable restoration by Will and David Charnley of a Leyland-based Bray Four 70 that was written off in an opencast mining accident in Scotland.
62 Help! Were being strangled!
With good reason, Graham Hampstead goes into Victor Meldrew mode this month - but at least hes uplifted at the thought of being able to buy a good old non-metric pound of Brussels sprouts and take them home in a proper brown paper bag this Christmas!
66 Last of the line
Pete Henshaw discovers that history could have been very different as he uncovers one of the last Lanz Bulldogs to be made.
70 Letters
72 Big stuff in Essex
Fifty years of Steiger were celebrated at the Maldon District Vintage Tractor & Engine Clubs Working Day & Rally in September - and the result was the best turnout of big tractors in the UK this year.
76 Farming with a tank!
Geoff Ravenhall comes across more fascinating archive photos as he learns about the Vickers light tank that was tried out as an agricultural tractor between the wars.
78 Model World
85 Christmas reviews Three pages of Christmas gift
ideas with a tractor and farming heritage slant.
92 Big? Youve seen nothing like it!
Chief correspondent Peter Love visits the event that has become the biggest of its kind in the world - the Irish Ploughing Championships.
96 Out and about in Dorset
Some tractor-related memories of this years Great Dorset Steam Fair.
98 Class acts in Kent
This years British National Ploughing Championships at Marden, Kent, on 11-12 October brought fine weather, great performances and some interesting machinery. Peter Love and Donald Bowler report.
104 Attention to detail, and no short cuts!
Jo Roberts is impressed by her near neighbour John Appletons scrupulous attention to detail in his restoration of a Massey-Ferguson 35.
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110 Tractor Price Index
114 Sales & Marketplace News
122 Sales & Auction List
123 Diary Dates
125 Tractor Marketplace
138 Rare Breeds Factfile
This month Marianne Thomas tells the story of British White Cattle.