Welcome
The Editor’s Fordson Diesel Major makes its first appearance at a working rally.
Pride of Peterborough
Jerry Thurston visits Barry and Pat Bruce for an enjoyable morning admiring a 1922 Ricardo-engined Peterbro tractor, and coaxing it into life.

Bonser’s bouncing tractor trials
Leslie Hutchinson unearths some amazing photographs from a series of safety-cab tests staged by Bowser Equipment Ltd in 1962.

It’s off to work we go...
First report from the second East Midlands Vintage Working Weekend at Morborne, near Peterborough, on 2-3 July.

A blazing romance!
New columnist Graham Hampstead reveals what setting fire to a shirt has to do with starting a reluctant Fordson Dexta, and how preparing Longwool sheep for showing sometimes demands a stiff constitution.

A reed shaken by the wind...
Jock Stewart comes across a reed-gathering operation beside the River Tay in Scotland, but is sad to discover that its future is as shaky as the wind-blown stands themselves.

Watch those electrics!
In the first of his regular safety columns, John Barker considers the electrical wiring hazards that can pose a threat to any tractor workshop.

The Devil’s own symphony!
With the raucous music of the meanest, nastiest, most beautiful International tractor he’s ever seen still ringing in his ears, Jerry Thurston describes a tractor pull in Yorkshire behind the wheel of the double V8-engined Sweet Sixteen.

William’s two-year MF35 challenge
William Chappelhow wondered what he’d let himself in for when he bought a Massey-Ferguson 35 for £350 - and with good reason, for what followed was a ‘ground-up’ restoration, he tells David Bowers.

The art of organics
Jo Roberts finds out what goes on behind the yard gate of a thriving organic farm in North Wales that specialises in Aberdeen Angus cattle.

Painting in Perthshire
Alan Barnes escapes the redecorating during a visit to his daughter’s cottage in Scotland and sets off in pursuit of a different kind of ‘art’ altogether - taking tractor pictures!

Large Whites and Englishmen...
Jane Brooks writes about life with her rare-breed pigs and chickens.

Funny Farm
The rams are on the rampage, and a new dog comes into Pete and Liz Kelly’s lives.

Bangers on the menu
Another of our new correspondents, Justin Roberts, brings a great report and pictures from the Single-Cylinder Tractor Weekend at Knightcote, Warwickshire.

The International Story - part 1
Mike Teanby begins his comprehensive history of one of the greatest names in tractor manufacturing by setting the scene of more than 100 years ago.

The Italian job
John Hobbs meets up with a neat little Italian-made Nibbi tractor - complete with three power take-off drives.
Moving with the times

The second part of Peter Small’s history of the Perth Bull Sales charts more than a century of change as the business adapted to more modern practices.

Rare Breeds Factfile
The famous horned Manx Loughtan sheep are the subject of Marianne Thomas’s regular column this month.

It’s what grandads are for, isn’t it?
Back from Benidorm after his charity tractor run, Peter Reid is now exercising the old adage that ‘charity begins at home’ in his latest project, writes Keith Langston.

The Scottish hills of home
Polly Pullar meets Mervyn Browne, a true countryman whose knowledge of the Scottish hills is unsurpassed, and to whom border collies have been a life-long passion.

Manx magic!
Pete Kelly reports from the Southern Vintage Engine & Tractor Club’s TT Mad Sunday working tractor event near Port St Mary, Isle of Man.

Welcome
The Editor’s Fordson Diesel Major makes its first appearance at a working rally.
Pride of Peterborough
Jerry Thurston visits Barry and Pat Bruce for an enjoyable morning admiring a 1922 Ricardo-engined Peterbro tractor, and coaxing it into life.

Bonser’s bouncing tractor trials
Leslie Hutchinson unearths som....