Welcome
After a whole weekend ploughing with a 50-year-old machine, it’s ‘up the workers!’ in appreciation of that ever-faithful servant, the tractor.

Massey-Harris magic
Pete Kelly travels to North Yorkshire to meet Neil Hutchinson and admire the sparkling Massey-Harris 203 that took him almost three years to restore for its proud owner, Ron Hughes.

Let the old times roll!
The ‘golden oldies’ invited to the Little Casterton Working Weekend constituted one of the finest tractor spectacles in Britain - and Noel Bridgeman was there to take the photographs.

Back in the family!
A chance encounter in a farmyard near Lockerbie reunited Des Scott with the Fordson Major that his grandfather George had bought brand-new in 1956. David Bowers tells the story.
News
Ten pages of news and events.

Counties in Northern Ireland
Leslie Hutchinson reports on a Co Antrim working event featuring many four-wheel-drive classics, and much more besides.

Rare Breeds Factfile
This month Marianne Thomas looks at the breeding history of Orpington poultry.

Diary Dates

Greyface Dartmoors’ long trip ‘home’
Graham Hampstead tells of a long trip to the West Country with three Greyface Dartmoor shearling rams.

Slim Swede!
Justin Roberts seeks out Alistair Evans’ handsome 1951 Munktells BM10 two-stroke tractor in a lush region of Shropshire.

Buy one, get one free!
John Hobbs visits Mike Doidge near Looe, Cornwall, to learn about the restoration and operation of his vintage Massey-Ferguson combine harvesters.

Reviews
Small hole, big problem
In ‘Technical Talk’, Graham Hampstead removes the cylinder-head from a Fordson Dexta to discover that a tiny hole in one of the piston crowns reveals much greater horrors below.

Suck, squeeze, bang, blow!
Jerry Thurston explains the workings of four-stroke petrol, petrol/paraffin and diesel tractor engines, then on a different note altogether unveils the mysteries of the two-stroke.

Restoring an Allis
John ‘Diesel’ Rideout brings the first part of a restoration feature about his 1960s Allis-Chalmers ED-40.

Battered but beautiful
En route from Croatia, John Brajdic came across a rusty 1957 Porsche diesel tractor that, despite appearances, still does an honest day’s work up in the thickly-wooded hills.

A farming Christmas
Pete Kelly reviews this year’s farming and countryside-themed Christmas card collection from Society Cards, and tells of the rural charities they support.

Tasty Scone!
Pete Kelly visits another great ‘Farming Yesteryear’ event at Scone Palace, Perth, and Jock Stewart keeps an eagle eye on the static tractors section.

The Farmall phenomenon
Continuing his history of International Hervester, Mike Teanby focuses on the mass-produced tractors built between 1930 and 1939.

Readers’ letters
...not forgetting Pete Wilford’s latest ‘Wurzel & Gripper’ cartoon strip.

A summer to remember
For Jane Brooks and her classic tractor enthusiast husband, it’s been a long, hard summer down at the smallholding, with many moments to savour along the way.

Rush job!
In ‘Fun Farm’, Pete Kelly fights the clock to get his Fordson Diesel Major ready for a long weekend’s ploughing.

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Blast from the past!
Jo Roberts checks out a ferociously fast ‘Fordson bach’ with the heart of a lion - or at least a Perkins P6 diesel!

Manxland - from a tractor!
Chris Clegg reports on a summer tractor run through the glorious Isle of Man countryside.

Dinnae disturb the ‘forkies’!
Polly Pullar meets Hugh Reid, one of Scotland’s great characters and a dyker (stone-waller) supreme.

Fred’s Restoration Problem-Solver

Those single-minded Belgians!
Alan Barnes meets up with members of Belgium’s Oldtimer Tractor Club and their brilliant single-cylinder tractors.

Tractor Talk

Advintage
Hundreds of classified advertisements for the vintage enthusiast.

Welcome
After a whole weekend ploughing with a 50-year-old machine, it’s ‘up the workers!’ in appreciation of that ever-faithful servant, the tractor.

Massey-Harris magic
Pete Kelly travels to North Yorkshire to meet Neil Hutchinson and admire the sparkling Massey-Harris 203 that took him almost three years to restore ....