Tractor & Farming Heritage
February 2009
Celebrating the history and development of the tractor
3 Welcome
6 Vickys Masterpiece
Vicky and Colin Hazlehurst tell our chief correspondent the story of the restoration of a very rare Lenfield Massey Ferguson 35 conversion - a star in the tractor line-up at the Massey Ferguson 50th anniversary event at the 2008 Dorset Steam Fair.
12 It takes two to tango
Donald Bowler unearths some tandem tractor curiosities in the scrapbook cuttings of Alec Worbey.
16 The David Brown fan club
Our Cumbrian correspondent visits Ronald Raines, whose beautifully restored David Brown 30D reflects a family passion for the Meltham-build tractors that goes back well over half a century.
22 Global Dynasty
With 2008 now behind us, our chief correspondent reflects on a glorious year for Massey Ferguson enthusiasts worldwide, who celebrated 50 years of Massey Ferguson in some style.
26 News
38 Knocked for Six!
Our chief correspondent takes a comprehensive look at the history of the Caterpillar D6 family, starting with the Diesel Forty of 1934.
44 More farming with a tank!
The military didnt do things by half when they got involved in design, writes Geoff Ravenhall.
48 A thumping good tractor
Our technical editor, Jerry Thurston, gets to grips with the Rumely Oil pull - a tractor from his most wanted list.
52 Christmas Events 2008
Tractor magazine provides a festive first with a round up of some of the road runs and events over the Christmas period.
56 Farming in the sixties
Back in the 1960s British farming was booming - but if a farmer could save a few bob by ingenuity and knowing what to buy second-hand, hed just set to and modify his buildings and equipment himself, writes John Blake.
60 Model World
66 Our Deerely Beloved
Our North Wales correspondent, Jo Roberts visits a carefully nurtured green collection of tractors on the Isle of Anglesey.
70 True red
Our chief correspondent visits the peak district of Derbyshire to meet dedicated David Brown enthusiast John Riley.
76 Letters and Reviews
78 All Around - comes around
Our chief correspondent, Peter Love takes a look at Derek Mellors finely fettled Fordson All Around.
83 Essential courting gear
Graham Hampstead reminisces how a Fordson Major flywheel played a part in his early courtship rituals back in Yorkshire.
86 Warm pigs and mass murder
Polly Pullar gets her pig hotel double-glazed and is shocked at the devastation a pine marten causes in her henhouse.
90 Industrial worker
The forgotten Fordson? Pete Henshaw finds an industrial tractor thats been restored by a man who rebuilds race car engines as well as Fordson injector pumps.
94 Heroic failure
Derek Mellors 1919 Garner might not fit everyones perception of an early post-Great War tractor, but it had quite a bit going for it, writes Jerry Thurston.
98 Keep on rolling
David Hunt invites our chief correspondent to Halstead, Essex, where vintage Caterpillar power is used to do the job.
102 Tractor Price Index
106 Subscribe to Tractor
108 Sales & Marketplace News
114 Sales & Auctions
115 Diary Dates
117 Tractor Marketplace
130 Rare Breeds Factfile
The Shire Horse, one of the largest horses in the world, is the subject of Marianne Thomas monthly column.
3 Welcome
6 Vickys Masterpiece
Vicky and Colin Hazlehurst tell our chief correspondent the story of the restoration of a very rare Lenfield Massey Ferguson 35 conversion - a star in the tractor line-up at the Massey Ferguson 50th anniversary event at the 2008 Dorset Steam Fair.
12 It ta....
