Indholdsfortegnelse for December 2023 i Tractor & Farming Heritage

David said: “Back when Dad started the collection in 1993, he drove the Fergie to local shows and as time went on I brought the Fordson Major. I passed my tractor test at 16 and started towing the Fergie on a trailer that we built from a caravan chassis. “After many years of doing this and my passion for the rallies became stronger, the collection had started to grow, and I wanted to go to shows further away. So, I decided that I wanted a lorry and set about finding a project. I found an advert for the Scania that had come very close to being sold for export. I then promptly bought the lorry. Once home I set about a restoration over many months stripping it right back to…

Over 800 pieces of Ferguson memorabilia will go under the hammer at the Cheffins Machinery sale ground at Sutton, near Ely on November 25. Put together by the late Jim Russell, an enthusiast from Warwickshire, this represents one of the most comprehensive Massey Ferguson collections worldwide, formed over 50 years. The sale has the potential to see some very significant prices and comprises models, toys, paraphernalia, and a 1936 Ferguson Brown Type-A tractor. One of the most important lots is the final signature written by Harry Ferguson, dated April 6, 1954 (pictured), before his resignation as Honorary Chairman at Massey-Harris-Ferguson Engineering Ltd on July 20, 1954. In addition, there is a Ferguson Sherman Plough catalogue, which was used by Harry Ferguson to set out headings for a proposed tractor catalogue,…

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This time it’s after the Second World War and the marvellous Majors. The converters who made a living out of kitting out Fords for special uses always fascinated me and quite a few of those appear here. Back in the Seventies and Eighties, I was lucky enough to visit both County and Roadless and see the amazing vehicles they were producing. Ven Dodge at Roadless in Hounslow, Middlesex was a tireless advocate for his firm, and very knowledgeable about its long history. He helped me produce a pictorial article for MHB’s Vintage Tractor Album 2 almost exactly 40 years ago, which ended with the news that they were moving to a new factory at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire on the strength of their £1.5m annual order book. Sadly, things didn’t work out,…

LETTER OF THE MONTH WALTER WILDER AND SONS An article you published in the October 2023 TFH, page 35, Rural Relics made me cast my mind back to 1955 when I worked for 37 years for Walter Wilder and Sons Ltd Crowmarsh, Oxon. The Wilder family extends as iron founders from 1760 burning charcoal to heat the furnace. Many descendant sons set up foundries in villages and towns in order, Ipsden village and adjacent Hailey. Crowmarsh village then in the towns Reading, Guildford, Henley, and Wallingford. One of them, Walter Wilder, set up his foundry in Crowmarsh, which he rented from the Howbery Estate farm. The old barn in the attached image (from the booklet Men of Iron compiled by memories from the Wilder family and archives) is where he…

NUFFIELD 10/60 AT 60 The Nuffield 10/60 gave Ford and Massey Ferguson a good run for their money in the Swinging Sixties, and 60 years later, it is still popular with restorers and collectors. SHEEP SHEARING TACKLE When Ferguson meets Lister. We find a Ferguson fan who has a special interest in sheep shearing history and has a collection of sheep shearing equipment from the earliest days of hand shearing through to the Sixties. FORDSON & FORD – THE WARTIME YEARS With material shortages biting hard during the Second World War on both sides of the Atlantic, austerity versions of agricultural tractors had to be produced using fewer features than standard. HOW TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE JANUARY 2024 ISSUE CALL: 01959 543747 and quote TFH1 VISIT: shop.kelsey.co.uk/tfh1 ON…

One of the biggest and most popular shows in the calendar, the traditional season opener, Tractor World, returns to the Three Counties Showground in Malvern on February 24-25, 2024. The two-day extravaganza is celebrating its new date with even more exhibitors, trade stands, displays, and bargains than ever before. Expect to see hundreds of vintage, veteran, and classic tractors, vans, stationary engines, classic commercials, lorries, trucks, Land Rovers and vintage vehicles, historic farm machinery, and agricultural heritage displays. You’ll be spoiled for choice with a wide range of regional and national club stands and displays, trade stalls, model and toy retailers, tools and garage equipment, tyres, workwear, clothing, books, and gifts. There’s also a wide range of horticultural and gardening equipment, including classic and modern ride-on mowers. Organiser Kelsey Media…

This I believe was the third time this site has been used for the Championships and it’s an area of the UK which ensures a good crowd for the Championships, especially on the Sunday. It all started on Thursday when the heavens opened. On Friday afternoon, the rain was back in vengeance and carried on most of the night, making the trade stands’ area a mess and in places not passable. Luckily, it stayed dry overnight, and the sun came out on Sunday. However, it was still not easy to walk in the static tractor section and the trade stands area. To the plots But it was a different story with the ploughing plots. The ground and the walking area were perfect. I headed to the Hydraulic Ploughs area. Champion…

Buyers from Ireland and across the UK flocked to North Shropshire on October 28 for leading regional auctioneers Halls’ latest and potentially last farm dispersal sale of 2023. The sale at Kenwick Farm, Kenwick Springs, Cockshutt, near Ellesmere followed the retirement of Mark and Pam Edwards after a 60-year family link to the farm. A selection of good quality farm implements, machinery, vehicles, and workshop tools, which had all been well maintained, went under the hammer. The quality of the lots was reflected in the excellent prices achieved, including £45,000 for a 2011 Massey 6480 tractor and £42,000 for a 2014 Manitou 634-120 PS Elite Loadall, which both sold to Irish buyers. A 1996 Massey 390, with low hours and in mint condition, sold to a collector from Cheshire for…

YORKSHIRE SHOW ➤ Tickets for next year’s Great Yorkshire Show are now on sale. Tickets for the 165th Show, on Tuesday 9 to Friday 12 July 2024, will be sold in advance only, with visitor numbers capped at 35,000 a day. Visitors can expect to see the best animals in the country competing, including national breed shows and machinery, food, and first-class entertainment to celebrate the very best of farming, food, and the countryside. More information at greatyorkshireshow.co.uk NEW AGREEMENT ➤ As part of strategic plans to expand representation throughout the UK, Garford Farm Machinery has announced a new distributor agreement with Ben Burgess & Co, substantially increasing its territory across the East of England. Developing and manufacturing technologically advanced mechanical weed control products, including its range of Robocrop Precision…

■ Reversible Final Plough-Off: 1 William Tupper, Pulborough, W Sussex; 2 Thomas Sutton, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs; 3 Alan Critchlow, Scropton, Derbys. ■ Conventional Final Plough-Off: 1 Ashley Boyles, Market Rasen, Lincs; 2 Nigel Vickers, Sarn, Malpas, Cheshire; 3 Stuart Vickers, Sarn, Malpas, Cheshire. ■ Vintage Trailing Final Plough-Off: 1 Trevor Johnstone, Wigton, Cumbria; 2 John Crowder, Sturton-by-Stow, Lincs; 3 John Milnes, Sheffield, S Yorks. ■ Vintage Hydraulic Final Plough-Off: 1 Richard Ingram, Atherstone, Warks; 2 Ian Berriman, Driffield, East Yorks; 3 Charlie Nicklin, Congleton, Cheshire. ■ Classic Final Plough-Off: 1 Jon Cole, Ross-On-Wye, Herefords; 2 Ray Alderson, Bolam, Co Durham; 3 Carl Wright, Chesterfield, Derbys. ■ Classic Reversible Final Plough-Off: 1 Stephen Watkins, Maltby, S Yorks; 2 Graham Sutton, Nuneaton, Warks; 3 Martin Williams, Kings Caple, Herefords. ■ Supreme Champion –…

William Edward Martin, who was born in 1869, founded Martin’s Cultivator Co in Lincolnshire. He is described as an “inventor of a great many improvements in agricultural machinery”. Little is known about the history of this company. However, we do know that before establishing Martin’s Cultivator Co, which was based at Lincolnshire Ironworks in Stamford, Martin served an apprenticeship with the agricultural engineers Messrs James Ashton & Sons of Huntingdon. Following his apprenticeship, Martin became a manager at the iron and brass founders Bayliss & Thackrays, who were also based in Huntingdon. Range Records show that Martin’s Cultivator Co exhibited cultivators, swath turners, rakes, horse hoes, harrows, potato diggers and mowers at the Smithfield Club Show in 1911. As time went by the range expanded to include implements like side…

It’s got to the time of year when logs are needed. Although I use a chainsaw to cut the trees and fallen branches into manageable chunks, I use a Ferguson saw bench on the back of our 1947 TE-A20 Ferguson. I find this a lot more efficient than chain-sawing the lot! Perhaps this may seem strange as I have to lift the lengths onto the saw bench. Bending over constantly with a chainsaw in hand plays havoc with my back, but each to their own. Since the Covid lockdown, none of our tractors have been insured for road use and are currently ‘sorned’ so the tractors have had little regular use lately. The tractor in question has been driven around the yard by my grandaughter a few times during the…

CLASSIC DAVID BROWN TRACTOR From their base near Huddersfield in Yorkshire, David Brown began producing tractors under their own name in 1939. By the Fifties, they were building some of the most technically advanced machines in the world. Using mainly promotional films, this programme looks at what made a classic David Brown tractor focusing on the tractors built during the Sixties and Seventies, particularly the Selectamatic range and the tractors produced when the company was merged with J I Case in 1972, as well as looking at the roots of those machines in earlier products. The Classic David Brown Tractor, DVD. Due to be released in late November 2023. RRP £16.95. Tractor Barn Productions www.tractorbarnproductions.com KELMARSH BOOT Country fashion and footwear brand, Ariat, has a new Wellington boot range, the…