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.
Classic Massey & Ferguson Enthusiast
Welcome!
Meet the contributors
PLOUGHING CELEBRATIONS
BODLE STREET’S OFF!
THE HERITAGE TRANSPORT SHOW
BIG END-OF-SEASON EVENT
NEWARK SHOW NEWS
A RARE SIGHT
FANCY AN MF 590?
BACK ISSUES
JONATHAN WHITLAM • … casts his mind back to a 1980s oddball, the Massey Ferguson 1200, and wonders if this ahead-of-its-time articulated leviathan was actually any good
ORIGINALITY IS EVERYTHING! • Patina or polish? The pretty or the plain? Andy Hayes explains to William Carson just how he likes his collection of Banner Lane tractors to look
INDUSTRIAL APPRECIATION • Bob Weir went to the Clyde Valley, near Glasgow, to meet Bill Orr, and his Massey Ferguson 2135 Industrial
MARKET GARDENING IN THE CLYDE VALLEY
YOU WRITE…
WORKING MEMORIES • Jonathan Whitlam shares some fond recollections of a Massey Ferguson 165 from his youth
MASSEY FERGUSON 3000 SERIES • Jonathan Whitlam spotlights the influential, trend-setting and electronics-embracing Massey Ferguson 3000 Series of farm tractors
LOST AND FOUND • John Selley pulls together another collection of news, views and stories from in and around The Ferguson Club
A FERGUSON LOVE AFFAIR
A BRILLIANT RUN!
HADLOW DOWN HISTORIC VEHICLE RALLY • Chris Graham has been out and about at some of the tractor events, steam rallies and road runs that went ahead this summer. Here's a flavour of what he saw
MAD JACK FULLER ROAD RUN
OLD TIMER TRACTOR RALLY
WEALD OF KENT STEAM RALLY
MF135 RESTORATION • Tractor restoration specialist Ben Phillips gets down to business with this new project, as the strip-down begins
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2021 AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS DIARY
BIGGEST FESTIVAL OF TRANSPORT • Peter Love spotlights some of the road runs, shows and other events that have attracted Ferguson and Massey Ferguson machinery in recent weeks
THAMES VALLEY ROAD RUN
MARSTON STEAM & VINTAGE WEEKEND
SUCCESSFUL MARSHAM RALLY
RE-ARRANGED WOODCHURCH
CROMFORD IN THE MUD!
RICHMOND LIGHT RAILWAY EVENT
LANCASHIRE’S BIGGEST!
SALES CORNER • Our resident sales and auctions guru, Peter Love, offers a snapshot of the Ferguson and Massey Ferguson movers and shakers changing hands in the past month or two
HINMAN SALE
WILLETTS FARM
A FERGIE BROWN RECORD!
MF 135 SELLS WELL IN SURREY
GEORGE PRICE SALE
RECORDS AT YARCOMBE
FRENCH MF RECORD SET AT CHEFFINS
PRICE GUIDE
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