Tractor & Farming Heritage
February 2006
Celebrating the history and development of the tractor
Welcome
Its a Happy New Era indeed as Tractor & Farming Heritage announces plans for a bigger, better magazine starting with the next issue.
Paying dividends!
Jerry Thurston gets behind the wheel of James Bradshaws American-built Co-op No 3 and is so impressed that he asks: Is this the tractor General Motors should have built?
Friends for life!
Pete Kelly travels through the night for a breakfast-time meeting with James Nisbet, and a memorable morning with his two Fergies, grey and red.
Tractors at Yuletide
We follow a Cheshire Christmas holiday tractor run.
News
You cant beat those old English varieties
Alan Barnes visits the beautiful Weald of Kent to find a successful fruit-juice producer whose appreciation of the old English varieties extends to the tractors he still uses around the farm.
Letters
Fordson Major winter check
Graham Hampstead gives a Fordson Diesel Major a close inspection after the autumn ploughing season.
The big sell!
Thumbing through a heap of old sales brochures kindly sent in by John Barker, Pete Kelly describes how, with catchy phrases and brilliant technical illustrations, tractor manufacturers got their message across to potential customers.
Fun Farm
An old-fashioned log fire has its merits, especially at times of rising gas and electricity prices and winter power cuts!
Rare Breeds Factfile
Marianne Thomas focuses on Shire horses in the 24th short article of her series.
Family favourites!
David Bowers returns to the home of Lancashire tractor enthusiast and restorer Stephen Taylor to look at more gems in his collection.
The right gear for the job
Jo Roberts discovers the amazing versatility of the Unimog - Mercedes ultimate jack-of-all-trades thats neither tractor nor truck.
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Tractors of the Central Highlands
Alan Barnes sets off on another tractor safari in some of the most beautiful parts of Scotland.
Think of a letter...
Continuing the International Harvester story, Mike Teanby looks at the letter-series Farmalls, the 100 series and the first of the Doncaster-built two-toners.
Reviews
Mannheim Express arrives in Salop
A 1938 Lanz Bulldog Express, recently acquired by Shropshire single-cylinder tractor enthusiast Alistair Evans, leaves a mighty impression on Keith Langston.
Ploughing a straight furrow
Polly Pullar meets Allan Thomson, one of the great characters of Scottish horse-ploughing.
Irish report
Leslie Hutchinson brings news of a Ford & Fordson Association meeting in Northern Ireland, and the end of an era as a much-respected dealership just over the border in Donegal closes its doors.
They call it progress
...but Graham Hampstead calls it something else after wrestling with the complexities of a relatively modern 4WD tractor.
Surprise, surprise!
No wonder the Hampsteads ram had a twinkle in his eye when they took him to the Norfolk Show!
The Metcalfes of Cheshire
Keith Langston visits a Cheshire family with steam as well as vintage tractors in the blood.
The best days of my life
Mary Johns meets former land girl Sheila Brooks, whose father said shed never make it when she joined the Womens Land Army at the age of 17.
Paint your wagon!
Pat Freeman follows two historic farm wagons from an Essex museum to their new home where they are being restored like the rest of Peter Webbs remarkable collection.
Wendy: the life of a herdswoman
Claire Biggin tells the story of her Aunt Wendy, who took her National Certificate of Agriculture exams after reading a feature in the Girl Guide magazine about becoming a dairymaid.
Advintage
Nine pages of classified advertisements for the vintage enthusiast.
Welcome
Its a Happy New Era indeed as Tractor & Farming Heritage announces plans for a bigger, better magazine starting with the next issue.
Paying dividends!
Jerry Thurston gets behind the wheel of James Bradshaws American-built Co-op No 3 and is so impressed that he asks: Is this the tractor General Motors should ....