Letters
Rust – what rust?
10 January 2012
STEVE White’s 1940 Case D was spotted by Donald Bowler at the Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre last September.
The carpet engineer!
10 January 2012.
“I CAME in from my workshop one cold December night for my supper after stripping down a Ferguson TED-20 engine,” writes Ben Phillips. “While I tucked into the feast my mother had prepared for me she asked if I could build a tractor up for her that evening on the lounge carpet!
Combining the future and the past
13 December 2011.
I ENJOY reading Alec’s cuttings each month and I see at the top of page 69 in your December issue 2011 a photograph of an Allis-Chalmers Allcrop combine taken in 1950.
A big thank you
13 December 2011.
AS THE dust now settles after the recent Newark Tractor & Heritage Show 2011, I would like to thank everyone for their help and assistance.
Cartoon connection
8 November 2011.
I CAN remember back in the 1950s when we were on the road threshing we always carried a couple of rolls of wire netting to put around the stacks so as to stop the rats bolting out.
On land and sea
11 October 2011.
ON A recent trip to Beaumaris, Anglesey, I stumbled across an M3 Submersible tractor unit. I have subsequently found out that there are many around the coasts of the UK and are used for moving lifeboats in and out of the water.
Tractor helplines
11 October 2011.
I HAVE a Fordson E27N tractor and would like to put a Perkins P6 engine into it. I know where I can get an engine but I need a conversion kit to unite the tractor with the P6.
Star letter: Diesel dilemma?
13 September 2011.
I WONDER if you could pass on this message to others regarding Graham Hampstead’s diesel problem reported in the September issue of Tractor magazine, issue 95.
Vintage model
13 September 2011.
RE the combine featured on the centre pages of Tractor, September 2011. The small combine harvester is a Massey-Harris 735, the yellow wheels show it is M-H.
Rare fruit of the UK vine
9 August 2011.
WHILE on holiday in the Bodmin area of Cornwall, my wife and I went to have a look at the Camel Valley Vineyard at Nanstallon.
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