6 Campsite tractor auction
Some of the rarest Minneapolis-Moline tractors in Britain are going under the hammer on 26 August.

10 Ryan’s 50mph Express!
How Ryan Smyth of Armoy, Co Antrim, squeezed a 145hp Leyland turbo engine into his Nuffield 4/65.

14 Antrim tractor tour
Pete Kelly visits Northern Ireland as a guest of the Cloughmills Vintage Club.

21 News
Including a re-enactment of Harry Ferguson’s tractor drive down the stairs at Claridge’s almost 60 years ago.

31 Cork tribute
A Ford & Fordson Association gathering at Cork brings a timely reminder of the former Irish assembly plant.

36 Life at Starveall Farm
Mary Pimm recalls her service with the Women’s Land Army in Oxfordshire.

38 The final countdown
A final appeal for entries with only days to go to the British Tractor Challenge.

40 A full-sized Iseki
Jerry Thurston comes across a full-sized six-cylinder Japanese Iseki tractor.

43 Saved from the skip!
More fine tractor wallcharts that escaped destruction - thanks to John Barker.

45 Letters

48 Farming in the 30s
John Blake recalls childhood days on his father’s farm in Surrey.

55 Landini range launched
Our technical editor studies Landini’s new Powermaster and Landpower ranges.

59 Tractor Marketplace
The place to buy and sell tractors and everything associated with them.

75 Tractor Talk
Pete Kelly comes across a couple of interesting re-engined Nuffields.

76 An open-and-shut case?
Graham Hampstead makes a convincing argument for a society for the preservation of battered farm gates.

78 News Extra

80 Fresh air and fun!
Jo Roberts indulges in a spot of mounted ploughing at Llandudno.

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86 BR is here to stay
David Bate tells how he imported a 1944 John Deere BR from Canada.

88 Taking on the world
Mike Teanby traces the role International Harvester GB played in the ‘worldwide’ tractor concept.

94 The perfect paint job
Preparation, preparation, is the advice of master tractor painter Alan Davies to anyone thinking of taking on a respray job.

102 Pride of Switzerland
The tractors of Hans Hurlimann were noted for quality and innovation. David Bowers finds one at Tunstall Tractors in Cumbria.

108 News Extra

110 The AgRover experiment
Land Rover’s AgRover ‘fast-tractor’ concept soon fell from favour, writes Jerry Thurston.

113 Rare Breeds Factfile

114 Fun Farm

116 Life in a shepherd’s hut
The shepherd’s hut remained a vital part of farming culture for many years, writes Marianne Thomas.

118 Sunny side up!
Our technical editor comes across a neat little John Deere 1035 straight out of the olive groves during a recent visit to Mallorca.

122 650 miles with a thresher!
Sandy Adams’ generation was made of strong stuff, as Polly Pullar discovers in a remote corner of Aberdeenshire.

128 ‘I did that, me duck!’
Graham Hampstead discovers a mountain of nostalgia over an old potato-planting machine.

6 Campsite tractor auction
Some of the rarest Minneapolis-Moline tractors in Britain are going under the hammer on 26 August.

10 Ryan’s 50mph Express!
How Ryan Smyth of Armoy, Co Antrim, squeezed a 145hp Leyland turbo engine into his Nuffield 4/65.

14 Antrim tractor tour
Pete Kelly visits Northern Ir....