Classic Massey & Ferguson Enthusiast

Building on the reputation of the great Grey Fergie, which saw more than half a million built, Massey Ferguson, with their red tractors, dominated the tractor market in Britain and many other places from the late 1950s to the 1970s. Classic Massey & Ferguson Enthusiast magazine celebrates this hey-day and also looks at the more modern and older tractors linked to the Ferguson name. From restorations to recollections and also hundreds of readers free-ads there’s something for everyone here Featuring models, articles and news to interest all collectors, owners and enthusiasts, each issue is packed with restorations and recollections as well as readers free-ads there’s something for everyone. Classic Massey & Ferguson Enthusiast magazine simply celebrates this iconic red and grey tractor.

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Classic Massey & Ferguson Enthusiast

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JONATHAN WHITLAM • This issue Jonathan looks at the Massey Ferguson 3680 which some would call rather a ‘White Elephant’ now what do you think of this model? In the meantime here are our columnist’s thoughts.

THE ULTIMATE MASSEY • The editor was kindly invited by MF ‘guru’ Ian Stevens to enjoy his rebuilt 1968 Massey Ferguson 1130, which he has kept in the now fashionable patina-style condition. He has just put the impressive machine up for sale, the ultimate in the DX at the time.

ORIGINAL STANDARD ‘FLYING 12’ EX-FERGUSON VAN APPEARS! • Allan Bedford says the highlight for me at the Somerset Festival of Transport, West Woodlands Showground, Frome on 23 September 2023 was the amazing Standard ‘Flying 12’ van, one of a batch supplied to Ferguson dealers.

WILLIAM FULLER’S OWN FOUR WHEEL TRACTION LTD MASSEY FERGUSON 165 MULTI-POWER • We look at a tractor that has so much history to it, which was used by the late William Fuller (the owner of Four Wheel Traction Ltd) as his research and development tractor on his Taylor’s Farm in East Sussex.

THE TRACTOR PLANT – ITS RISE AND FALL. • At its height in the 1980s around 8,000 workers made their living at Massey Ferguson’s Coventry ‘Tractor Plant’. Home to the iconic Ferguson TE-20, the site of a wartime shadow factory and a local institution, its closure in 2003 left a gaping hole in the manufacturing heartland of the UK.

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THE MF 35 STORY • Jonathan Whitlam continues his series on the development and production of one of Massey Ferguson’s greatest success stories: the 35. In Part 2 he looks at the grey and gold era.

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MASSEY FERGUSON 35 RESTORATION. • Ben Phillips turns his attention to the Zenith carburettor on the 1961 Massey Ferguson 35.

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WORKING MEMORIES. • Jonathan Whitlam looks back at the summer of 1985 and a Massey Ferguson 135 with loader that was working in Suffolk at the time.

SALES CORNER • THIS ISSUE THE EDITOR LOOKS AT THE BIG SPRING CHEFFINS VINTAGE COLLECTIVE, WHICH SAW A WHOLE RAFT OF FERGUSON BROWNS OFFERED.

SALES DIARY • Jayne Love gives you all an exclusive up-to-date list of sales you might to like to partake in. It could be just where that elusive part or first time tractor you have been looking for is within the lots. If your sale is not listed and want to be included please get in touch, tel:...