Tractor & Farming Heritage

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.

Welcome

Contributors this issue

Tractor & Farming Heritage

Pride of waterloo • The John Deere A Model was introduced as a replacement for the popular Model GP and is one of the great American tractor success stories.

A league of its own • This restorer went looking for a present for his partner and found it in a Ferguson TE-F20 which he used to own and originally bought from a football club.

CHATSWORTH CHAMPS

MIDLANDS MACHINERY SHOW UPDATE

NVTRR CHARITY BOOST

GRAND SUMMER RAFFLE

Snippets

Old timers come up trumps • Old Timers Tractor Rally, Woofferton, Shropshire, August 6-7

Newark Vintage Tractor Show • In the build-up to this year’s Newark Vintage Tractor and Heritage Show on November 5-6, some young enthusiasts share their love of vintage tractors.

Marshall Oil Tractors 1906-1914 • A preview of the booklet just completed by Ian Palmer, Head of the Marshall Club on Marshall Oil Tractors.

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CHARLES WILKINS SCRAPBOOK • The Wilkins brothers were famous Oxfordshire farmers and were early preservationists and collected a wonderful array of veteran, vintage and early classic tractors that today are dotted just about everywhere across the UK. They are now forgotten. However, their pioneering work is at least recognised in this series of articles Peter Love has put together thanks to Charles Wilkins’ work.

FOREIGN FIELDS • PART TWO: More recollections from Nick Baldwin of the tractors he encountered on the continent back in the Sixties.

Labour of love • Shawn Barrick from the countryside of York, Pennsylvania, tells us all about the stunning nut and bolt restoration of his 1949 Farmall Super A.

THUMPING GOOD TRACTOR • We meet a reader with a passion for Field Marshall tractors and see his ground-up restoration of a Field Marshall Series 1.

The Jones Minor Self-Propelled Baler • The Jones brothers became well known for their balers, and this rare model is an example of their work.

Ripping yarn…

MEMORY LANE • I went to the 2022 Honiton Agricultural Show in East Devon on Thursday, August 4. There was quite a good vintage and classic tractor display, so I thought they might interest you. I particularly liked the diesel Fordson E27N with Bamfords mower, also the David Brown tractor and mower.

vintage scene

GREAT ESCAPE • The drought conditions force some of Graham Hampstead’s sheep to escape under the wire in an attempt for freedom and food.

DAVID BROWN ELECTRICS • The David Brown 780 is under scrutiny again and it’s time to make sense of that “spaghetti junction” of a wiring system.

What’s on

TEIFI VALLEY VINTAGE SHOW • Glanllyn Fields, nr Penrhiwpal, Newcastle Emlyn, Cardiganshire, May 29.

STOKE ROW STEAM RALLY • Hill Bottom, Whitchurch Hill, Reading, Berkshire RG8...