5 Welcome
Observations on the Cooley Festivals magnificent Guinness World Record.
6 Headline News
8 Classic success at Onslow Park
With a special working class for classic tractors, this years Onslow Park Steam Engine Rally had something for every kind of tractor enthusiast.
12 W4 that came to stay
In the first of our Friends for Life features, Pete Kelly visits Charles Pick to learn all about the International W4 Standard thats been in the family since it was bought new in 1941.
16 The Dreyfuss effect
Back in 1937, John Deere wasnt known for its cutting edge styling - but, writes Pete Henshaw, a bespectacled gentleman who wore only brown suits soon changed all that!
21 News
29 Tunnicliffes nature
Inspired by the Cheshire countryside of his childhood, Charles F Tunnicliffe became a prolific illustrator of childrens books, farming and other publications, not to mention several series of Brooke Bond tea cards, Suzanne Kelsey tells of a forthcoming exhibition of his work.
31 Sales and Market News
Our brand new news section includes a comprehensive list of forthcoming tractor, machinery and farming memorabilia sales dates.
38 MF 135 makeover
Ben Phillips works on the cylinder block of a Massey-Ferguson 135.
42 Fastrac to success
Pete Henshaw visits JCBs magnificent Landpower assembly plant to watch the latest Fastracs coming together.
48 Scandinavian Beauty
Shoehorning a six-cylinder turbocharged Volvo diesel engine into a Massey-Ferguson 35 is a big enough job in itself - but Nigel Budd has also managed to turn the finished article into an unblemished and smooth-flowing whole.
54 A genius on Coll
In her unapproachable style, Polly Pullar describes the beauties of the Hebridean island of Coll, and meets a man of many talents who hates to throw anything away!
60 From Mini to...?
John Barker follows the progression of the BMC Mini through its various guises and labels, and wonders whether a long lost descendant is still being produced somewhere in the world.
63 Season of floods and broken gearboxes
Smallholder and travelling tractor mechanic Graham Hampstead sets about repairing the gearboxes from two Renault 90/34 four-wheel-drive tractors within the same fortnight.
66 The odd couple
When Eddie King decided to restore a couple of classic tractors, he plumped for something different in the shape of a 1965 Renault Super 5D followed by a 1968 55. David Bowers reports.
72 Letters
74 Janets fabulous Fen dt
Take a slip of a woman from Wales, a big chunk of German engineering and a lorryload of grit and determination...Jo Roberts interviews Janet Vickers, and finds out at last what that weird green tractor she keeps seeing at ploughing matches really is.
77 Reviews
79 Model World
All the latest tractor models are described in our brand new regular feature.
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86 Resentments and resignations
In the final part of The Ferguson Story, Jane Brooks follows developments after the so-called merger between Ferguson and Massey-Harris in 1953, and describes how Harry Fergusons mind continued to buzz with ideas right until his death from a barbiturates overdose in 1960.
92 Diary Dates
94 Rare Breeds Factfile
This month, Marianne Thomas looks at the long and difficult recovery of the beautiuful and quiet-natured Eriskay pony.
95 Tractor Marketplace
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