5 Welcome
Hands off that homemade food at vintage rallies.

6 Bring me Sunshine!
The Little Casterton Working Weekend had a special Massey-Harris/Sunshine theme.

10 Irish beat the world - again!
Leslie Hutchinson brings a four-page report about the recent successful combine record bid at Girley, Co Meath.

14 The perfect starter classic
With the help of a superb original-condition David Brown 995, our technical editor tells how to get the best starter classic for your money.

18 Season-end spectacular
Make a date with the Newark Vintage Tractor & Heritage Show on 11-12 November.

20 News
Eleven pages of it this month - including tractors at the Great Dorset Steam Fair.

34 The green ‘party’
Graham Hampstead describes the messy results of letting a group of Greyface Dartmoor rams get in among the windfallen, half-ripe cooking apples!

36 The old shepherd’s hut
Restoration begins on the Hampsteads’ 100-year-old shepherd’s hut.

38 Festival of the Plough
Jeff Bloom reports on a hardy annual.

42 Biennial success
First impressions of this year’s successful Berwick St John Country Fayre.

44 Check those brakes!
Jerry Thurston looks at the operation and maintenance of tractor brakes.

48 Letters

50 If it isn’t blue, it just won’t do!
Malcolm Beaton’s yard is teeming with Ford tractors and their mainly County derivatives. Roger Hamlin reports.

54 Pearl of Scotland
The Scottish Vintage Tractor & Engine Club’s ‘Farming Yesteryear’ rally at Scone Palace, Perth, continues its winning ways.

59 Tractor Marketplace
If you’re buying or selling tractors and equipment, this is the place to look.

76 Bigger and better
Mike Teanby looks back at the impact of mass production and the move towards the diesel tractor.

80 Our farm after the war
John Blake continues with his memories.

86 Winter wonderland!
Polly Pullar tells how to take magical photographs in the snow.

90 £200 anyone?
That’s what Steve Thornell paid to save a John Deere 2140 from the scrapman.

94 Reviews

96 Another Newman!
Pete Kelly comes across David Reid’s Coventry Victor-engined Newman three-wheel tractor.

100 Who’s a pretty boy?
Jerry Thurston describes Mike Kendall’s 1917 Parrett Model E.

104 Ploughing step-by-step
Harry Dodd gets into the work itself this month.

106 Snow had fallen, snow on snow...
Rural artists turn on the Christmas nostalgia yet again with this year’s Society Cards collection.

108 Tractor Talk
Pete Kelly reports from the tractor-working field at this year’s Onslow Park Steam Rally.

112 Heyday of the ‘thumper’
Jeff Bloom concludes his history of single-cylinder tractors.

114 John Deere 3130
Memories of tractor-driving days led Shaun Hargreaves to buying and restoring a John Deere classic.

118 Ford’s big daddy!
That’s how Barry Ross-Mackenzie describes Colin Cloude’s impressive Ford FW-30 articulated tractor.

120 A breath of fresh air
Albert Nobel has so much faith in his air-cooled Deutz D8006 that he drove it all the way from Holland.

124 Vintage harvest
When it comes to bringing in the thatching straw, old-fashioned machinery still does the job best.

126 Happy birthday Ffergi-bach!
Jo Roberts attends a North Wales event with a big Ferguson following - especially in the little grey tractors’ 60th anniversary year.

130 Rare Breeds Factfile

5 Welcome
Hands off that homemade food at vintage rallies.

6 Bring me Sunshine!
The Little Casterton Working Weekend had a special Massey-Harris/Sunshine theme.

10 Irish beat the world - again!
Leslie Hutchinson brings a four-page report about the recent successful combine record bid at Girley, Co Me....