Tractor & Farming Heritage magazine celebrates the development of the farm tractor from its historical roots, right up to the present day. Presenting an unrivalled combination of in-depth technical features along with monthly news and reports on developments within the industry. Tractor & Farming Heritage is aided by an expert team and enthusiastic contributors – transporting readers back to days gone by, while keeping them up to date with spectacular restoration projects. Meet the owners and restorers and discover all the latest from vintage and modern scenes. Led by an expert team of enthusiast contributors, Tractor transports readers back to days gone by, while keeping them up to date with spectacular restoration projects. All this is topped off with a burst of in-depth technical features and monthly reports on the many developments in the tractor and farming machinery world.
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SOUNDS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE • To a tractor lover one of the memory evoking sounds of days gone by is the unique thump of a Field Marshall in motion.
NUFFIELD LEGACY • Nick Baldwin provides us with a brief glimpse of Nuffield history in images of Nuffield tractors and earlier Morris conversions that he’s snapped over the years.
STEBBING VINTAGE TRACTOR RUN
SHROPSHIRE CELEBRATION
LANDMARK CALL FOR EVIDENCE
BIGGER, BETTER
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FROM THE SCRAPBOOK • Our correspondent Peter Love has a vast collection of pictures that he or his late father and other family have taken over the decades or have collected along the way. Here Peter just looks at a handful he just literally grabbed.
CLASSIC CANADIAN • We meet an enthusiast with a rare tractor from a Canadian tractor manufacturer.
HIGH & NARROW • We meet a collector who focuses on collecting Ferguson and early Massey Ferguson tractors, particularly two tractors which are helping complete the collection - the MF 35 Vineyard and High Clearance versions.
THE DALES & FELL PONIES • At one time long lines of ponies could be seen on the skyline hauling minerals to the foundries and workshops of towns and cities on the coast: limestone from the northern dales, and iron ore from the mines on the North York Moors.
FERGUSON/CULVERWELL SACK LIFTER • The iconic Ferguson brand spawned a plethora of implements which were in the most part universal across the range.
NEW SITE FOR HIGH WEALD STEAM
In the FARMING 1950 NEWS • The 1950 Smithfield Show & Agricultural Machinery promised to be of record proportions.
NICK BALDWIN AN APPRECIATION • A tribute to Nick Baldwin who sadly passed away on Wednesday, January 10, aged 77.
WINDS OF CHANGE • At last, the rain had stopped and as the wind blew, the ground slowly began to dry up and Graham Hampstead was getting itchy feet to try out his newly bought plough.
FAREWELL DAVID BROWN • A swift change of plan for this month’s tasks as Richard Lofting’s David Brown is sold on and he decides to work on the BMB engine block.
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