Tractor & Farming Heritage
August 2006
Celebrating the history and development of the tractor
6 Victory is sweet!
Pete Kelly, Jo Roberts and Roger Hamlin report from the brilliantly successful British Tractor Challenge at Hullavington, Wilts.
14 Tomorrows transmission today!
That was the bold claim when Massey-Ferguson introduced its 35X Multi-Power in the early 1960s. Former MF dealership apprentice Jim Hall, who found one to restore, tells his story to David Bowers.
18 Oliver Super 99
Jerry Thurston explains why the General Motors two-stroke diesel at the heart of one of Olivers best-loved tractors packs a punch well above its weight.
22 The shrinking oil seal
Graham Hampstead gets to the source of a serious oil leak on an International BTD6 crawler.
26News
An event-packed 11 pages of it this month.
40 Birthday tractor shapes up
Jo Roberts brings a progress report on the restoration of her David Brown 25.
45 Letters
48 The start of something big?
Harry Dodd gives some sound advice if youre thinking about taking up match ploughing seriously.
54 Eeny, Minnie, miney, Mo
Our technical editor is spoiled for choice when he visits North Wales to take a close look at Ray Baileys tractors.
59 Tractor Marketplace
If youre buying or selling tractors and everything associated with them, this is the place to look.
75 Gone to Nebraska
Mike Teanby tells how the North American tractor performance tests came into being, and how they continue to influence manufacturers to this day.
80 Farming at Cregneash
Pete Kelly meets his namesake to go turnip-drilling the old-fashioned way at a Manx village where time stands still.
86 Workshop
A much-needed brake check is carried out on a Fordson Diesel Major.
88 Our farm in the 30s
John Blake concludes his memories of life between the wars on his familys farm in Surrey.
94 Brilliant failure!
The concept behind the Minneapolis-Moline was brilliant, but the conservatism of North American farmers brought about its downfall, writes Jerry Thurston.
99 MF 1200 rebuild
The latest on Paul and David Howes attempt to restore a 1973 Massey-Ferguson 1200 in record time.
100 A bright grey day at Fergie Johns
Barry Ross Mackenzie spends a day with a Dorset collector with an impressive range of Ferguson tractors and machinery.
102 A decade of making tracks
Jim MacFarlane looks back over ten years of the Wessex Historic Tractor & Implement Clubs Tracks Across the Field event.
108 Fun Farm
Pete Kelly receives some good news as the new registration document confirming his tractor as KTL 62 finally arrives.
110 Booming great!
Andy Watsons efforts in organising a superb line-up of single-cylinder tractors for the Belvoir Castle Steam Festival shine through despite a bout of singularly wretched weather.
116 All in a flap about nothing?
Polly Pullar wonders whether weve all gone a bit scatty over this bird flu thing.
120 Antrim tractor tour
Our editor concludes his report on a memorable trip to Northern Ireland as a guest of the Cloughmills Vintage Club.
126Luck of the draw at Builth Wells
A regular world-style ploughing competitor describes a day at a popular spring match.
128 Diary Dates
130 Rare Breeds Factfile
