Tractor & Farming Heritage
October 2006
Celebrating the history and development of the tractor
5 Welcome
An Irish tractor assignment to remember..
6 Tractor trials re-enacted
Bank holiday exotica at Onslow Park as the 1921 Shrawardine Tractor Trials come back to life.
10 Bigger and better
Mike Teanby continues to chart the progress of tractor development.
14 Our farm after the war
John Blake brings a flavour of British farming at a key stage in its history.
18 News
Ruabon tractor auction results; new Lincs venue for National Vintage Tractor Road Run; Irish smash Guinness combine record.
30 Rare beasties
Pete Kelly takes a close look at three rare tractors a Newman, Jowett and Rushton.
38 Just as we remember them
Some of the tractors John Graham has restored have important family connections, as David Bowers explains.
42 Irish showpiece
This years Fingal Vintage Society Show near Lusk, Co Dublin, easily maintained its reputation as one of the best.
46 Norfolk Combine pioneers
The Gressenhall Farm Museum & Workhouse is to put on display a 1929 International No 8 combine that was the first of four different models to be used by pioneering farmer RC Sherar.
48 Marvellous in maroon
Theres no keeping an old performer down - and when a circus-liveried Hanomag R455 came Mike Kendalls way, he resolved to have it looking like new.
67 Hay days - and Villiers engines!
Graham Hampstead looks back fondly to his introduction to haymaking on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.
71 Which tractor tyre for you?
Hugh Hartley gives the lowdown on the ever-confusing subject of vintage tractor tyres.
74 Fun Farm
More everyday stories of country life...
76 Ploughing step-by-step
Harry Dodd explains how to tackle the crown, or start, at any ploughing match.
78 A turn for the better
Having restored a Massey-Ferguson 35 to perfection, Ben Phillips goes hay-turning with it.
80 Snap! Another one!
In Tractor Talk, we meet former Cumbrian farmer Bill Steele and come across a self-cleaning grass harrow of the type a Manx reader had a query about.
83 Chinese workhorses
The worn-out Dong Fang Hong tractors of central China face a daily struggle as they play their own small part in the development of a superpower. John Brajdic reports.
86 Kings of the castle
Although Scotlands 14,000-acre Glamis Estate has to be forward-looking and innovative, it still finds room for tradition with three grey Fergusons.
90 Oil - the slippery questions
A tractor engine is only as good as its oil - but how many of us know the first thing about it? Our technical editor comes up with the answers.
95 Heyday of the thumper
In the first part of a two-part article about single-cylinder tractors, Jeff Bloom explores the development of a plethora of European models.
98 A binding arrangement
A McCormick T7 binder is unveiled in fully restored condition. John Hobbs reports.
102 The chill factor
Polly Pullar meets Willie Grieve, a successful contractor who finds nothing more relaxing than driving an old tractor.
106 Festival of the Plough
Jeff Bloom tells what gives the Lincolnshire event its special appeal.
110 Vintage comedy harvest
Things go bang in duplicate when our North Wales correspondent Jo Roberts decides to get on with the baling.
113 Diary Dates
114 Rare Breeds Factfile
The Hackney horse is featured this month.
