Front cover: Cheshire ‘National’ proves a winner!
IN THIS ISSUE:
Inside Tractor magazine, May 2008 - Issue 55
■ Ten pages of sales & marketplace news
■ National vintage tractor run
■ New Zealanders take world crawler record
■ Mullahead Ploughing Match
■ PLUS: Farming in the 1950s,
What are biofuels,
Massey-Harris
GP 4x4 pioneer
■ Tractor Marketplace
- private ads
■ Tractor Price Index -
International Harvester To Zetor
■ Full current issue contents list >>
FROM THE EDITOR:
An Easter weekend to remember
Phew! That was some Easter weekend! After meeting up with the understandably depleted number of hardy souls who braved the cold winds, hail and snow showers to complete the Carrington Rally Road Run on the Saturday, it was up at 3.30 next morning to head for the National Vintage Tractor Road Run in Cheshire just as the first flurries of an arctic blast swept across the Eastern Counties and the Midlands.
This month's news
Kiwis establish new crawler
world record
At last the New Zealanders have something to smile about! After a gallant attempt at the Guinness World Record for working tractors a few years ago, they have come back with a bang by fielding 470 tracklayers and 33 excavators at Tapanui in celebration of the West Otago Club’s 50th anniversary.
The song remains the SAME
Our technical editor finds a four-wheel drive beauty that had once been much the worse for wear after a hard spell of woodland duty.
The 1973 Same 80 seen here is a credit to its owner, ex-haulage contractor Brian Blackburn, who now spends his time restoring tractors in his spacious workshops next to his home on Humberside.
Variety performance!
Our Cumbrian correspondent visits High Bentham, North Yorkshire, to catch a final glimpse of a load of rare tractors bound from Northern Ireland for Germany, and to look at the non-David Brown element of haulage contractor Doug Taylor’s impressive tractor collection.
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