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6 Oude Trekkers
Peter Love reports from a cracking rally in Belgium - and some British visitors roaded it with their tractors the whole way!
11 The roar of a Leone
Up in Derbyshire, Jerry Thurston takes a close look at Neville Fox’s four-wheel drive SAME Leone – and its wonderful air-cooled V4 engine.
14 Crawling small!
Don’t have room for a vintage or classic tractor? Peter Henshaw meets a man who might have the answer in the shape of two small crawlers – a Bristol 20 and a Ransomes MG6.
20 Farming in the 50s
An orchard is grubbed up after being destroyed by a flying bomb, and John Blake recalls some of the crops that were grown on the family’s Surrey farm.
24 Kath’s Gem
Peter Love is given the first opportunity to enjoy Kath and George Yarwood’s recently restored and immaculate Thomas Ninety-Five-100 tractor.
30 News
Including a two-page tribute to the late John Moffitt CBE by our chief correspondent, a big Fordson gathering at Cork, ploughing matches and a Scottish road run.
44 Oh no, not another one!
As one Marshall MP6 is completed just in time for a big show in South Africa, Chris Wilson gets to grips with another example of these rare and desirable tractors.
49 Moving ‘house’
the hard way!
When John Barker moved some of his tractors and implements to a new home 25 miles away, the only way to get his 1940 Marshall there was to drive it all the way – at a steady 4mph!
52 The Cat that
took the cream
Peter Love looks back at the history of the iconic Caterpillar 60 crawler, and the changing fortunes of CL Best’s great rival, the Holt Manufacturing Co.
58 The £5 Fergie Brown
Ben Phillips tells the story of a 1938 Ferguson Brown that, although offered for £10 in the 1960s, was bargained down to a mere fiver. Talk about investment!
60 An Aberdeen-
Angus tradition
Polly Pullar visits the self-made James Drummond, whose old-fashioned Aberdeen-Angus herd keeps old-fashioned values alive – and tasty.
64 A farmer’s life for me!
Graham Hampstead gets to work at last on his 12-acre field – and discovers that this farming lark isn’t as easy as it might seem!
68 Jim’s transatlantic treasures
Run-of-the-mill they certainly aren’t – and the mainly transatlantic vintage and classic tractors of Co Antrim’s Jim White bring pleasure to rallygoers wherever they’re shown.
72 Fingal action
for Doe 130
Visitors to this year’s Fingal Rally in the Republic of Ireland will be treated to the stirring sight of a recently restored Doe 130 in action.
74 A ‘push-pull’
Ford 7610
The idea of a powerful tractor working ploughs front and back was once thoroughly demonstrated in Europe – and Michael Hoey is about to show just how it was done.
77 Harvesting by Hurricane
Leslie Hutchinson tells of the discovery of a David Brown Hurricane harvester in Northern Ireland, and traces the history of such implements.
80 Conaty’s tractor ‘emporium’
Tractor scrapyards are fascinating places to visit – and John Conaty’s premises in Co Meath are no exception as Peter Love takes a look around.
85 Farming in the blood
Our chief correspondent visits Andrew Hinman, one of Gloucestershire’s most colourful farming characters, to talk about his business and his varied tractor collection.
88 Glory in Prairie Gold
Peter Henshaw comes across an American giant of the wheatbelt in the shape of a rare Minneapolis-Moline G900.
92 Nostalgia unlimited
Peter Love takes a first look at a brand new bygones museum in Bristol that boasts many vintage tractors, farming memorabilia galore and much more besides.
93 Model World
96 The ‘X’ tractor
Ben Phillips is delighted with the result as he completes the rebuild of a battered Massey-Ferguson 35X.
98 The daily grind…
One of the handiest tools for the tractor restorer to have around is an angle grinder, and in our ‘Workshop’ section David Stokes compares a load of them.
100 Rebuilding a Fordson N
Harry Dodd sees progress at last in his rebuild of a Standard Fordson – until the unwelcome discovery of fuel tanks corroded beyond redemption.
102 Reviews
104 Pride of Annan
David Bowers concludes his visit
to Stuart Barbour’s amazing
tractor collection near Annan, Dumfries & Galloway.
106 Running their own show!
Jo Roberts meets a family of tractor fanatics who organise an annual charity gathering on their own land and an accompanying tractor road run.
110 Diary Dates
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119 Sales Previews
123 Sales & Marketplace News
129 Sales & Auction List
130 Tractor Price Index
135 Tractor Marketplace
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146 Rare Breeds Factfile
Fell ponies are the subject of Marianne Thomas’s 53rd entry in this popular series.
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