3 Welcome
‘Thank you’ – 200,000 times – as the fruits of last year’s fabulously successful Guinness World Tractor Record attempt are handed over to charity representatives.
7 Headline news
10 If the job’s worth doing...
David Bowers tells how Stephen Butler restored a Ford 2000 to perfection.
14 The art of Michael Herring
Pete Kelly visits one of Britain’s top countryside artists at his Norfolk home.
20 Tug of war
Pete Henshaw tries to work out the secret history of Tim Michell’s RAF-liveried David Brown Taskmaster.
24 That Darlington difference
Peter Love investigates a P6-engined Fordson E27N ‘upright Major’, fitted with a rare Darlington Engineering diff lock, that was recently bought by Suffolk-born folk musician Barry Seaman.
29 News
40 Happy 70th birthday D2 Caterpillar!
The Caterpillar D2 diesel tractor was launched in Kansas in 1938. Peter Love considers the huge contribution this ubiquitous crawler has made to agriculture, forestry and construction during its long lifetime.
46 Rebuilding a Fordson N
Harry Dodd completes some small repairs and prepares minor parts for fitting as the return of the Standard Fordson’s refurbished engine block is awaited from Andrew Davidson in Northumberland.
48 Weird - but wonderful!
In the first of a new series, Donald Bowler browses through the scrapbook cuttings and clippings from the post-WWII years saved by Hertfordshire farmer and collector Alec Worbey.
50 Gunged up and knocking!
The six-cylinder BMC-engined Nuffield looked sad and forlorn, and didn’t sound too good either - but closer examination revealed that it was far from the nightmare that had been feared...
52 Summat from nowt!
Graham Hampstead takes the dust covers off a home-built garden tractor that he put together from discarded bits on the scrap pile around 30 years ago.
54 Letters
56 A square deal all round
Donald Bowler reviews David Boulton’s long-awaited book on the history of Perkins engines.
58 A show-winning E27N
It might have taken a lot of time and effort to get Stuart Bailey’s Fordson into show-winning condition – but it’s been worth every minute, writes Peter Love.
62 Wake up from winter!
With the first vestiges of spring, it’s time to pull out the old tractor and give it a thorough health check for the season ahead. Jerry Thurston tells what to look out for.
68 Gainsborough legends
How two Marshall MP6s were brought back to life in South Africa. Part two next month.
74 Whisky galore - and tractors, too!
Polly Pullar visits the Hebridean island of Islay to savour its wild beauty – and a distillery that’s come back from the dead.
80 Model World
86 Moffett - Ireland’s own
Peter Love meets Ray and Ant Stokes in Herefordshire to learn all about their rare and remarkable Moffett tractor.
90 No time to lose
Ben Phillips has a rush job in sprucing up an International B250 for a neighbour’s wife just in time for Christmas.
94 Birth of the buckrake?
The winch and jib at the back of an ex-War Department Chevrolet seemed the perfect combination for a Hampshire farmer’s brainwave for a buckrake, writes Roger Hamlin.
96 Tractor Price Index
Five pages of tractor prices in five separate condition categories, from Advance-Rumely to Hofherr-Schranz-Clayton & Shuttleworth.
102 Sales & Marketplace News
110 When green turned mean
If you hear of a Dubuque-built ‘New Generation’ John Deere 1010 or 1020 coming up for sale, buy it while you can!
114 Harvesting the old-fashioned way
In these days of giant acre-gobbling combine harvesters, it’s good to go back to the old-fashioned ways of binding, stooking and drilling once in a while, as Donald Bowler discovered.
117 Long-distance Eicher
The Germans don’t trailer their tractors to far-off shows – they drive them!
118 Diary Dates
120 Subscribe to Tractor...
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122 Gentle giants
Jo Roberts crosses into Anglesey to meet Amanda and Dylan Williams and their Bodafon Shire horses.
127 Tractor Marketplace
The place to buy tractors and everything associated with them.
138 Rare Breeds Factfile
This month Marianne Thomas looks at the history and present status of Cotswold sheep.
