7 Welcome
Christmas greetings from the editor, who looks back over a year to remember.
8 Yellow Fever!
Theres only one word to describe Henry Dixons John Deere 1010 industrial thats been restored to perfection in the USA - dazzling!
14 Bigger, better, brighter!
With an attendance of 10,000, and special Nuffield and Fordson Dexta displays, the fifth Newark Vintage Tractor & Heritage Show, sponsored by Tractor magazine, was the best yet.
21 News
32 County duo
Peter Henshaw comes across an intereesting pair of County crawlers at the Newark Tractor Show.
34 Dialled in?
Tractor gauges - we rarely give them a passing thought but, as Peter Henshaw shows, they range from the comprehensive to the virtually non-existent.
36 Awesome threesome
Once again, John Hayward has produced a technical tour de force in the shape of a fiendish, three-engined, Doe-inspired monster. Jerry Thurston finds out how it all works.
42 Spares galore!
David Bowers finds an Aladdins cave of spare parts, second-hand tractors and restoration projects when he visits the family firm of J Charnley & Sons near Chorley, Lancs.
48 Reviews
Including two more superb DVDs from Second Sight Productions in the Massey Ferguson Archive Series.
48 Letters
50 Rebuilding a Fordson N
Taking a petrol/paraffin Fordson Standard apart and rebuilding it is an acquired art and, as Harry Dodd discovers, often presents unexpected challenges along the way.
54 Sales & Marketplace News
Whats made what at tractor and machinery auctions all across the land.
60 Ride-on Trusties
With some rare archive photographs, Geoff Ravenhall looks back at the horticultural tractors Trusty made with comfort in mind.
62 How farming used to be
Jo Roberts completes her interview with Anglesey ploughman Huw Williams as he looks back at his years of working on the land.
66 Tractors, tractors everywhere...
If European tractors take your fancy, the French town of Caussade on Tractormania weekend is definitely the place to be, write Mike and Julie Blenkinsop.
70 Sale of the century
The Malcolm Beaton tractor sale of 10 November promised much - and the punters were not disappointed.
76 The tree feller
Pat Freeman comes across a woodland operation near Framlingham, Suffolk, where three old tractors are still at work.
77 All on a full English breakfast
Tracy Wilkinson describes the North Yorkshire Vintage Machinery Societys Vintage Rally & Working Weekend at Tancred Grange, Scorton, through the eyes of the unsung heroes who make it all happen.
80 Diary Dates
81 A year to remember
Graham Hampstead looks back at an eventful year on and around his Lincolnshire smallholding when everything that could happen invariably did- including a lucky escape from a falling tree by his daughter, Lucy.
84 Just in time!
The new £8m exhibition centre at Peterboroughs East of England Showground was completed just in time for the second National Tractor Show at the venue. Peter Love reports on another successful event.
89 Model World
Five pages of the latest model tractor news including some of the most interesting lots of the season.
94 Fiat Allis FD31
Robert Howell describes the long, difficult and painstaking restoration of a giant crawler tractor that spent its last working days in agricultural use after pushing coal at a power station.
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102 FW60: leader of the pack
Michael Hoeys impressive Ford FW60 is the star of the familys collection of classic Ford tractors in the Republic of Ireland. Peter Love gets up close and personal.
106 Tractor Price Index
Tractors 10-page index of all the latest tractor prices is a must for anyone thinking of buying or selling a veteran, vintage or classic machine.
116 Hebridean interlude
Our regular Scottish correspondent Polly Pullar comes across a peat-cutter and the owner of a flock of hardy Hebridean sheep as she revisits the island of Coll.
119 Tractor Marketplace
The place to buy tractors and everything associated with them.
131 Rare Breeds Factfile
This month Marianne Thomas focuses on Devon and Cornwall Longwool sheep.
