Tractor & Farming Heritage
August 2008
Celebrating the history and development of the tractor
3 Welcome
Getting away from serious matters for once, the editor is invigorated when he visits a friends smallholding on a sunny June afternoon.
6 Knocked for six!
After visiting Australia, Simon Elliott came home with not just one, but TWO Chamberlain Countryman 6 tractors. Peter Love was in West Sussex at apple blossom time to tell the story.
12 Mister fix it
Although Fendt now has a modern, high-tech image, it started out making simple single-cylinder diesel tractors. Pete Henshaw unearths a Fendt Fix 1 - rare in Germany, and almost unheard of here.
16 Roadless on parade
Noel Bridgeman brings a full photographic report of the brilliant and comprehensively supported Roadless display at the Carrington Steam & Vintage Rally. 20 Variety the spice of life
Up in Derbyshire, plant contractor Neville Fox has a tractor collection with a difference, including some SAME and Zetor machines. Pete Kelly goes along to take a look.
24 News
30 Learning hard lessons
In Farming in the 50s, John Blake recalls a barbed wire fence causing serious injury to a cow looking for her calf, and some reliable and not-so-reliable farm machinery.
32 Never mind the weather!
Although the sunshine took a holiday yet again, the 49th Carrington Steam & Vintage Rally maintained its usual high standards with two cracking themes and plenty to interest the tractor enthusiast.
36 Ginger beer, weeds and a worn-out International
Germination is decidedly patchy on Graham Hampsteads mangel wurzel field, and he finds out what damage cow muck can do to an International 454.
41 Combine capers
Continuing to thumb through the scrapbooks of Hertfordshire farmer and collector Alec Worbey, Donald Bowler finds some clippings about weird and wonderful combine harvesters.
44 Still fiery at 50
As the first half century of Massey-Ferguson is celebrated in style, we look at the genius of pioneers Daniel Massey, Alanson Harris and Harry Ferguson that made it all possible, along with the developments of today and the challenges of tomorrow.
50 Whats all the friction about?
Pat Freeman follows the rebuild of Paul and William Engelmans 1917 Heider.
54 County style!
Our chief correspondent looks back to the time when County Commercial Cars of Fleet, Hants, led the way in class and style.
58 Nostalgia by the bucketful!
Oakham Treasures, a new bygones and rural agricultural museum near Bristol, offers so much atmosphere from days gone by that the visitor soon becomes lost in time, writes Peter Love.
62 The Land Girls faithful friend
In virtually original condition, a Fordson N that saw wartime service helping to construct an airfield in Warwickshire has now joined the collection of Gordon Cooper, reports Jane Brooks.
66 About time, too!
A unique art exhibition is to be staged to celebrate both the work of the Womaens Land Army and that of the artists who portrayed them.
68 That Innishannon touch
One of the warmest and friendliest vintage events of the year takes place in Co Cork at the beginning of June - and once youve experienced the unique Innishannon Rally, youll be hooked for life, writes our chief correspondent.
74 Model World
78 Tandem discovery
Peter Love brings the first pictures of a recently discovered Fordson E27N tandem tractor in Lincolnshire, and uses the occasion to recall a few more one-behind-the-other creations.
82 Life begins at 40!
The Great Dorset Steam Fair is 40 this year, and Pete Henshaw grabs an interview with Martin Oliver, who organises what is probably the biggest event of its kind in the world.
86 A lifetime on tracks
Jo Roberts interviews Sam Evans, the man they call Sam Pennal, who comes from a long line of Welsh hill shepherds but is best known for making furrows where no furrows have been before.
90 Outdated but clever!
Introduced in 1914, the Avery 8-16 soon became a tractor out of its time, but that in no way diminishes Gerald Gregorys wonderful 1917 example that Jerry Thurston came across at the Carrington Rally.
94 Murthly magic
Polly Pullar visits the breathtaking Murthly Estate near Dunkeld to meet John Melloy and learn about his life and his tractors.
98 Diary Dates
103 Finished at last
As he completes the rebuild of a neighbours Fordson N, Harry Dodd starts thinking about the work thats needed on the plough it will be pulling for its match debut in September.
106 Skirting the issue!
Back in the 1970s, a not-so-short back and sides was the answer for keeping the weather out of an open-structure safety cab. David Bowers comes across such a skirting arrangement on Derek Stobbarts immaculate Massey-Ferguson 165.
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138 Rare Breeds Factfile
Her 54th article in this series, Marianne Thomas looks at Shetland cattle.
3 Welcome
Getting away from serious matters for once, the editor is invigorated when he visits a friends smallholding on a sunny June afternoon.
6 Knocked for six!
After visiting Australia, Simon Elliott came home with not just one, but TWO Chamberlain Countryman 6 tractors. Peter Love was in W....