Regulars

3 Welcome

11 News
What’s going on in the world of tractors.

25 Countdown to Newark

44 Costa Del Dorset
The 42nd Great Dorset Steam Fair brought (mostly) dry weather, lots of happy people and a fascinating line up of tractors.

62 Tractor Talk
Your views and product reviews.

77 Model World
Henry Smith reviews what’s going on in the model scene.

80 Porous blocks, maybe a cure?
Graham Hampstead revisits the problems he has encountered in the past with older Ford engines that were leaking water into the sump.

84 A sparky family
Behind every great man there is always a great woman, but in this case John Cumming is the great man behind two brilliant women - his wife Morag, and daughter Heather.

128 Farming Focus: Everything but the squeak
Peter Small charts the slow rise of pig keeping in Scotland from the 19th century to the modern state of the art business it has become.

129 Rare Breeds
No. 80 British White Cattle.

130 Next Month
Preview of the December issue of Tractor magazine.

Your tractors

6 Styled for success
Pete Kelly travels to Shropshire to take a closer look at Steve Robinson’s beautifully-styled Massey-Harris 101 Super Twin-Power tractor.

16 A favourite classic
Although Russell Denyer’s 25-year-old International Harvester 956XL still works hard for a living - it’s still his pride and joy.

20 Up for the challenge
A familiar sight around the lanes of Ashford in Kent is Denis Bishop gently chugging along on his Field Marshall.

26 Start of a new era
The Ferguson Brown Type A had a brief chequered history, Matt Foreman of Co Antrim, talks about this with help from the various models in his collection.

32 As narrow as can be
Peter D Simpson looks at a recently restored David Brown 885 Narrow in Northern Ireland.

35 Muir Hill 121
We take a brief look at some of the most memorable tractors produced starting with the Muir Hill 121 - sold from 1972-1982.

40 An engine apart
In part two of his restoration of an Allis-Chalmers ED40, Ben Phillips gets to grips with sorting the engine.

48 A faithful family servant
Dave Prentice’s 1941 Oliver Standard 80 looks extremely good for its age; owned by the family from new it is now enjoying retirement as part of his collection of classic tractors.

54 From the ashes
Although most of Cyril McGuinness’ working life has revolved around commercial vehicles, his agricultural background is strongly reflected in the choice of vintage and classic machines he keeps at his home in Rush, Co Dublin.

58 A complex conversion
We meet Trevor Robinson who made his Perkins conversion much more difficult by his insistence that it should be possible to refit the original engine.

Farming heritage

36 One car went to mow...
There’s nothing new about recycling. In the 1930s, one Somerset farmer-engineer converted old cars into mowers, and even tractors...

66 A glimpse of the past - Les Waudby
With this year’s National Ploughing contest to be held in Lincolnshire, who better to interview than the county’s first World ploughman, Stow’s Leslie Waudby.

72 From Snaketrac to Gyrotiller
In Alec’s Cuttings we track the development of Fowler crawlers, this month following the origins of the Gyrotiller.

88 Special hand me downs
It’s a great thing to hand our treasured items down to the younger generations, but it’s not just our old collectables that can be handed down, it’s also our skills, our love of the great outdoors and our knowledge of our unique rural history.

In the workshop

52 Village fair and Fordson fountain
When a fault on Harry Dodd’s Fordson N announced its arrival in a shower of black rain, he knew it was time for some serious investigation.

Marketplace

22 No recession in tractor sales?
A good show of over 400 bidders at the vintage car and tractor sale in Omagh makes it hard to believe we are in the grips of recession.

92 Road runs, rallies and ploughing events roundup.

106 Sales & Marketplace News
Around the auctions.

Front cover

Not all orange tractors are Allis-Chalmers - Paul Price brought this French Vendeuvre to this year’s Great Dorset Steam Fair. Turn to page 44 for the full report.

Regulars

3 Welcome

11 News
What’s going on in the world of tractors.

25 Countdown to Newark

44 Costa Del Dorset
The 42nd Great Dorset Steam Fair brought (mostly) dry weather, lots of happy people and a fascinating line up of tractors.

62 Tractor Talk
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