5 Welcome
Water, water everywhere, so will we have an Indian summer of rescheduled events?

6 £56,000 Doe
Jane Brooks brings a full report from the Cheffins Vintage Sale of 14 July, when the top price recorded was £56,000 for a 1966 Doe 130.

10 News
The biggest news section yet in Tractor includes a gorgeous skirted 1938 Massey-Harris orchard tractor in Northern Ireland; a new owner for Roadless; the Ladies’ Tractor Road Run in Norfolk; and a Ballymena debut for an ultra-rare Avery.

28 Sales and Market News
This brand new section brings details of tractors and agricultural machinery coming up for sale.

31 Sales and Auction Listing
Where hammers will fall in August and September.

32 Shropshire delights
Vintage tractor enthusiast Lewis Weaver had a surprise or three in store when David Bowers visited him at his home near Craven Arms.

38 Trusty’s golden years
Selling inexpensive tractors around the globe was the noble ambition of the Trusty horticultural tractors’gifted designer - but sadly for Tractors (London) Ltd, a certain Ulsterman with a fondness for grey had exactly the same idea.

40 Case Q combine comes up for sale
A rare 1936 combine that will soon come under the hammer has a long and interesting history.

44 Volks tractor!
Built in Germany in the late 1950s and restored in Kent, Geran Iles’twin-cylinder McCormick D217 diesel is as rare as it is so beautifully proportioned, writes Pete Henshaw.

48 4WD Lanz surprise
A 1923 four-wheel-drive Lanz recently bought by Mike Kandall springs a surprise at Paul and Julie Badger’s Morborne Vintage Working Weekend.

52 Mists of time and tide
In the third feature describing her visit to Northumberland, Polly Pullar pictures a daybreak to remember,and visits a couple with an amazing collection of agricultural bygones.

57 Letters
58 Small is beautiful
Not all American tractors were monsters of the prairie, and Pete Henshaw proves the point when he comes across Mick Jarvis’s superb 1939 Allis-Chalmers Model B.

63 Tractors at Melford Hall
Pat Freeman chats to the vintage tractor owners at the Farm Machinery Preservation Society’s Annual Rally in the grounds of historic Melford Hall in Suffolk.

64 ‘It’ll be a grand fight
That’s what Harry Ferguson predicted as he launched his epic battle with the giant Ford Motor Co in 1948, but little did he realise it would last four years. Jane Brooks brings the third part of The Ferguson Story.

70 Ivor’s tractor treats
John Hobbs visits Wrantage tractor enthusiast Ivor Grant,whose Marshall products and fine trio of John Deere classics are often seen at events in the south-west.

74 Farewell to Fun Farm Cottage
Editor Pete Kelly bites off just about as much as he can chew when he decides to move house - lock, stock and kitchen sink - with his 1955 Fordson Diesel Major.

76 Anglesey’s International Ploughboy!
Jo Roberts meets Glynn Jones the island man with an International mentality.

80 Big wheels in the forest
When Clarence de la Cour and his son, Christian, rebuilt two Nuffield Bray conversions, they had work as well as rally attendances in mind,writes Roger Hamlin.

82 MF 135 makeover
Ben Phillips begins the restoration of a tired Massey-Ferguson 135.

84 Subscribe to Tractor and make sure you never miss another copy of your favourite tractor and farming heritage magazine.

86 Diary Dates

90 Just William!
Graham Hampstead stirs a tear as he remembers a show-winning tup who had a disarming habit of looking you straight in the eye.

92 A real Chelsea tractor well, Bromley actually
! Jerry Thurston comes across a Lanz Bulldog road tractor that’s a credit to its owner.

96 Cooke of Lincoln ploughing day
A dream comes true for Lincolnshire artist Robin Wheeldon when a pair of horses is hitched to his superb competition-winning Cooke & Son plough.

100 Giant Allis is here!
Only 24 hours before Tractor closed for press, Jerry Thurston caught up with a huge Allis-Chalmers crawler in the nick of time.

103 Tractor Marketplace

5 Welcome
Water, water everywhere, so will we have an Indian summer of rescheduled events?

6 £56,000 Doe
Jane Brooks brings a full report from the Cheffins Vintage Sale of 14 July, when the top price recorded was £56,000 for a 1966 Doe 130.

10 News
The biggest news section yet in Tractor includes a g....