The official magazine of the Ford & Fordson Association. Ford & Fordson Tractors magazine covers ACthe early Fordsons to the last of the Fords, and the latest news with New Holland. Each issue of this quality glossy magazine is packed with reader stories, buyers’ guides, news, reports, technical advice and parts for sale. The old Fordson and the Ford that followed were incredibly versatile tractors and were arguably converted by more specialist companies like County, Doe, Roadless and many others. We celebrate all this in our magazine with features on restorations, collections, recollections. Tractor collectors may also find that rare part or tractor for sale in our reader’s free ads.
Ford and Fordson Tractors
Welcome!
Meet the contributors
TECHNICAL DRAWINGS TO LEND?
GDSF REPLACEMENT?
MIKE MARSHALL SALE
SEVAC TO HOST NVTRR
THE FRENCH ARE COMING!
GLAMORGAN PLOUGHING CHANGE
SALES DIARY
BACK ISSUES
JONATHAN WHITLAM • … spotlights a strange hybrid model from the early 1970s, the 4100, which relied on the best bits of two other models from the Ford tractor range
MAJOR ADVANTAGE! • The Fordson Major E27N was introduced at the end of the Second World War and was a very important tractor in its day. Ian Russell owns a superb example, as Bob Weir discovers
PERKINS DIESEL ENGINES
THE MUIR-HILL STORY • Part 5: Jonathan Whitlam continues his fascinating account of the Muir-Hill development story with a look at the impressive Series III machines, launched in 1978
CRANK HANDLE RUN, 2023 • Chris Graham reports on this year’s Crank Handle Run, which saw participants enjoying some of the best rural countryside that Surrey has to offer
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A SELECTIVE CHOICE • Chris Graham meets Edwin Hughes, who, after first trying the Select-O-Speed system 58 years ago at Ford’s Boreham House Training Centre, finally has his own tractor fitted with that transmission
SUMMER EVENTS: June-July
A LIFE WITH TRACTORS • David Woods shares his memories of a working life spent with Ford Tractor Operations, this time focusing on the Series 40 launch in the early 1990s
FORDSON DEXTA • Ben Phillips introduces our new restoration project in which we’ll follow the renovation of a 1960 Fordson Dexta
Ford & Fordson Association Round-Up • Association chairman, Pat Pawsey, offers another essential selection of news and views from in and around the everenthusiastic FFA.
REGISTRATION NEWS
TRACTOR WORLD
CANADA CALLING!
THE BERWICK BASHERS
Stradsett Park Vintage Rally
BRITISH NATIONAL PLOUGHING CHAMPIONSHIPS
FFA MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
ALBERTA FIRE UPDATE
LLANDUDNO TRANSPORT FESTIVAL • Peter Love, with help from Davis Reed and Anne Bates, spotlight some of the events that enthusiasts have been enjoying over the past month or two
STRADSETT PARK VINTAGE RALLY
IRISH INVASION!
DRIVE IT DAY
EASTER VINTAGE FESTIVAL
NATIONAL AT STRANRAER
CHEFFINS VINTAGE COLLECTIVE • Peter Love spotlights the recent Cheffins Vintage Collective and the interesting Ford, Fordson and popular derivatives that came under the hammer at the sale
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