Letters
Special worms
13 April 2010
SEEING the Rotary Hoe trencher (Alec’s Cuttings No 21, March Tractor) took me back to about 1943 when I repaired one for the Glos War Ag in the North Cotswolds. This machine was fitted to a Fordson and had Rotaped tracks as on your picture.
Letter of the month
9 March 2010.
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Royal interest
9 March 2010.
PLEASE find attached a picture of one of our club members Edwin Arblaster being introduced to Prince Charles on his recent visit to Cwmdu, Carmarthenshire.
Devil to get out
9 March 2010.
I AM reading the March issue of Tractor and in the article ‘All time high’ by Ben Philips, he talks about the diesel feed to the heater plug coming from its own reservoir. Well this is correct for tractors of this age and the parts list clearly shows the system.
Sea Horse 2?
9 March 2010.
DURING the 1960s, a modified Ford County, known as ‘Sea Horse’, became the first tractor able to travel on water as well as on land.
Drayton Diesel head gasket
1 March 2010.
GREETINGS from Confignon, which is a village of 4000 people 7km from the centre of Geneva, Switzerland. I received a call from a village mate who is a great fan of things mechanical. Much of his retirement is taken up with restoring machinery, including a variety of ageing/ageless agricultural implements.
Cubs in the snow
8 February 2010.
WINTER’S here and when the snow arrives Justin Hokinson is doubly prepared! With the temperature dropping to freezing Justin (15) of Portland, Maine, in the USA woke to find a good 2-3 inches of fresh snow on the ground.
Tractor cemetery
8 February 2010.
MY husband and I took these photos when we took a break on a journey back from Esperance to Perth, Western Australia, in November last year.
Bomford Ploughs
8 February 2010.
RE: Alec’s Cuttings No 20 in your February issue of Tractor magazine.
After recently having retired from working on farms for 50 years and having read your magazine for many years I was interested in the article on ploughs in the early 1960s.
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