Tractor & Farming Heritage
December 2005
Celebrating the history and development of the tractor
Welcome
As two tractors make a cool £112,000 between them at Cheffins October vintage sale, we take another look at spiralling tractor prices.
£66,000 - for a Doe Triple D
Jane Brooks witnesses new heights in tractor prices as she visits Cheffins record-breaking October Vintage Auction.
Weird but wonderful!
Noel Bridgeman and Pete Kelly report from a record-breaking Glinton Working Weekend celebrating 60 years of sugar-beet growing and harvesting.
Ornery, cantankerous and ruddy marvellous!
Jerry Thurston hitches a ride on John Bownes 1916 International Mogul 12/25 at the recent Little Casterton Working Weekend - and comes away all the richer for the experience.
News
Can Simon make it three in a row?
Noel Bridgeman and Pete Kelly soak up the atmosphere at the British National Ploughing Championships.
Readers Letters
...not forgetting Pete Wilfords latest Wurzel & Gripper cartoon strip.
Pioneering genius
The breathtaking appearance of a 1929 Holt combined harvester at Little Casterton brought yet more proof of Ron Knights remarkable restoration skills. Noel Bridgeman had been following progress since the work began.
Ere the winter storms begin
Justin Roberts reflects on harvests past as he attends a well-organised working demonstration in Northamptonshire.
Fun Farm
Pete Kelly flogs his old Diesel Major to death by trying to turn over a huge, sticky 22-acre field on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds with a £50 Ransomes two-furrow plough - and manages about two-thirds of it!
Rare Breeds Factfile
British Saddleback pigs are No 22 in Marianne Thomas popular series.
Finding a tractor to fit the engine!
David Bowers visits Peter Dean to learn about the rebuild of a Massey-Harris 744D whose Perkins P6 engine was the only surviving part of a combine harvester destroyed by fire many years ago.
How many more farm sales like this?
Graham Hampstead visits a fenland farm sale where the treasured remnants of a life with working horses come under the auctioneers hammer.
Tractors in their blood
Despite initial discouragement, Patrick Edwards quickly realised his dream of running a successful tractor and spare parts business in Oxfordshire - and its become a magnet to enthusiasts from far and wide.
In for a penny, in for a pound!
Graham Hampstead tries to save a bit of brass by purchasing a Fordson Dexta water-pump kit, and finds hes still quids in after having to buy two!
Putting beauty into Christmas
Pete Kelly reviews the outstanding wildlife Christmas cards of Robert E Fuller.
More tractor art from Trevor Mitchell
Two new prints have been added to Bradford tractor and farming artist Trevor Mitchells wonderfully nostalgic portfolio - and the original of one of them is up for sale.
Just what the budding ploughmen ordered!
Edited by Brian Bell MBE, one of the most important books about ploughing to emerge for many a year was launched at the recent British National Ploughing Championships.
Silsoe tractors bring mega-money
Jane Brooks reports on the eagerly-awaited auction of former working tractors from the Silsoe Research Institute in Bedfordshire.
Those interim Fordsons
John Hobbs reopens a topic thats intrigued Fordson vintage tractor owners for years.
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Now that makes a refreshing change!
Richard Lofting and friends join the Belgian boys in a vintage tractor road run on their home territory.
Tell me a Field-Marshall story
Any tractor thats been in the same family for almost six decades will have a story or two to tell, as David Bowers finds out when he meets the owner of a 1947 Series II Field-Marshall.
Dont lose your sight!
John Barker brings some sound advice about the removal and refitting of ploughshares.
The P6 Perfectionist
Jo Roberts meets North Wales tractor enthusiast John Appleton, who restored a P3-engined grey Ferguson the hard way!
Advintage
Hundreds of classified advertisements for the vintage enthusiast
Welcome
As two tractors make a cool £112,000 between them at Cheffins October vintage sale, we take another look at spiralling tractor prices.
£66,000 - for a Doe Triple D
Jane Brooks witnesses new heights in tractor prices as she visits Cheffins record-breaking October Vintage Auction.
Weird but wonderful....
