Classic Massey Magazine Classic Massey Sept-Oct 2013 Back Issue

Hello and welcome to the September/October issue of Classic Massey & Ferguson enthusiast – a narrow and vineyard special born out of the many positive comments we received about Wes
Wolfe’s MF 25 vineyard and David James’ MF 35X vineyard in the June 2013 issue. With your praise ringing in our ears we sent a crack team to find some of the more interesting and unusual variations of your favourite models and were pleased when they returned with a bumper haul of
narrow tractors. As always, I won’t talk about the contents of the issue here, but I would like to point you in the direction of the photographs chosen from the AGCO archive. Once again, Ted Everett has come up trumps by managing to find some cracking shots from yesteryear and I’d personally like to thank him for his time and dedication in sourcing them. As I write, the barley is being harvested in East Anglia – by both modern and classic machinery – sometimes on the same field. Sadly, on the occasions that I’ve spotted things of interest, I haven’t had my camera with me – so I urge you to carry yours wherever you can and make up for my inadequacies! We always love to see
your photographs. On one of said recent excursions, I came across a wonderfully-original tractor
at work and, thankfully, I did have my camera with me. I was all revved up to take hundreds of photos of this time warp gem in action, when I was reined in by its owner. He was concerned that a story on his tractor would leave him open to attack from light-fingered individuals and he had no intention of surrendering his pride and joy to anyone, yet alone criminals. I explained to him that the photographs could be taken with a neutral background, so as not to reveal the location, and for
significant names, addresses and other important details to be omitted from the feature – so that there was no way of determining who the owner was and where he lived.