5 Welcome
The editor’s Fordson Major stars in an early-morning farce.
6 Headline News
£199,000 record for 1913 J I Case 30-60 at George Schaff sale in USA; Witty makes it four in a row at World Ploughing Championships in Lithuania.
8 Beet that!
A special sugar beet harvesting demonstration adds magic to the brilliant Little Casterton Working Weekend.
13 Big Bull roars in
Mike Kendall’s 1917 Big Bull tractor makes a sparkling debut at Little Casterton and Jerry Thurston is there to tell how it works.
16 That Bulldog spirit!
Despite threats from both the weather and foot and mouth restrictions, the Wessex Historic Tractor & Implement Club’s ‘Tracks Across the Field’ event proves another great success.
20 News
Festival of the Plough; ‘Farming Yesteryear’ at Scone Palace; Rhyader Road Run; Tractor contributor Mike Teanby in Everest expedition.
41 Sales & Marketplace News
All the prices from tractor and machinery auctions far and wide, and our regular new listings of forthcoming sales.
48 Mid-50s masterpiece
Stylish and capable, the McCormick Farmall 300 was one of the best tractors of its time, and Mike Teanby explains why.
52 Miniature marvels
Many people blink twice when they first see the superb half-scale tractors of Andy Willis and his late father, Malcolm. Pete Henshaw ventures into Lilliputian territory.
56 Hart-Parr Oliver Extravaganza
One of the biggest-ever gatherings of Hart-Parr tractors and their derivatives at the Great Dorset Steam Fair was a winner despite a tragic circumstance that occurred during its planning. Peter Love brings a highly-detailed report.
62 For sale – a farming lifetime!
Graham Hampstead traces a farm’s history from the objects laid out in a few rows in a field.
64 ‘Mighty Master of All Crops’ – but it wasn’t!
Arthur Tingley recalls a visit to East Sussex when he came face-to-face with a rather unsuccessful combine harvester that he’d used 57 years ago.
69 Letters
A reader remembers the day he demonstrated a David Brown 990 and offset forage harveter to former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
70 Reviews
A North American tractor book with dazzling photos- and that ‘thud factor’ - is reviewed this month
71 Photographic memories
Kim Parks, who has photographed a wonderful archive of farming pictures over the past 35 years, talks with Peter Love about the tractors and machinery he has known.
77 Iron Horses at large!
George Holt reports on the best-yet Iron Horse Ploughing Championships, that attracted a record entry of 21.
strong>78 Manx welcome
There was a great welcome for Europe’s top vintage ploughmen when they arrived on the Isle of Man for this year’s European Vintage Ploughing Championships.
82 Model World
All the latest in miniature in our new regular feature
86 News Extra
88 End of the Marshall dream
Ever heard of the JWD Fieldmaster? Or a Marshall made in Austria? Pete Henshaw tells what happened after the fading of Harvest Gold.
94 Just like that!
How the Howes family transformed a tired old E1A Fordson Major into a great restoration in 14 weeks flat.
98 Rust to rust – an International haven
Jock Ball visits 1960s rally supremo Andrew Cowan and his International tractor relics that are to be disposed of in the near future.
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106 35 years with a Massey-Ferguson 135
Ron White tells David Bowers about the escapades of a tractor that almost disappeared down a mineshaft.
108 Huw Williams remembers
Jo Roberts meets Anglesey’s Huw Williams, who still regularly competes in ploughing matches in his 80s, to learn about his long lifetime in farming.
111 Be seated, gentlemen, please!
Geoff Ravenhall looks at some of the surprising ‘add-ons’ that were once offered for Trusty horticultural tractors.
113 The crofters’ champion
Polly Pullar spends some time with the indomitable Isobel Campbell, who has moved mountains for the rural way of life.
118 Diary Dates
119 Tractor Marketplace
The place to buy tractors and everything associated with them.
131 Rare Breeds Factfile
In the 45th of her series, Marianne Thomas looks at the history of Indian Game poultry.
