Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Tractors at Work Richard Sturdey visits Salop Steam Rally at Onslow Park & shows us some of the more unusual machines from the 1920 s in action including a 1927 Caterpillar & a Huber & Runeley also from the US In the next programme Richard Sturdey continues to describe the attributes of some of the vintage working farm machinery in action at the Salop Steam Rally Today s machines include 1920 s & 30 s Nuffield Caterpillar International Mogul International Crawler & the Fordson Super Major with a combination of propane gas & diesel powered engines In the final programme from the Salop Steam Ralley Richard Sturdey looks at the vintage big-boys machines designed for tractor-pulling ie peforming under extra loads Tractors at work include Leyland Fordson Nuffield Livery Allis Lance Bulldog & Case Working Tractors The first programme finds us in Sussex watching vintage tractors from the 1930 s & 40 s hard at work still doing real jobs on the farm mowing ploughing & hedgecutting Machines include Fordson Massey Ferguson David Brown Nuffield & Marshall Back on the farm in the second episode with some more 1940 s tractors this time they are ploughing drilling & muck-spreading! Machines include those made by Case Ford Fiat Claas John Deere & Leyland The final on the farm programme looks at some of the powerful tractors of the 2nd half of the 20th century working in the fields Manufacturers include John Deere Fendt Ford New Holland Massey Ferguson DOE Challenger Lamborghini & Marshall David Brown Tractors The first programme features the story of David Brown Tractors a key name in British Tractor history
- from their early beginnings through to the 1960s We then pick up the David Brown story in the 1970 s in the second installment when the use of these well-loved tractors expanded from working on the farm to the production of industrial models for use on the highways We look at a number of models hard at work in a variety of situations In the final installment of the David Brown story we come up to date with numerous purchasers including CASE IH & the subsequent development & production of new machines Leyland Tractors & Farming Moves Forward In the first programme we look at working machines from another well known British firm Leyland Tractors Leyland had their heyday in the 1970 s but originally grew out of Nuffield Universal which was the first tractor launched by Morris Motors in 1948 We then conclude the Leyland Tractor story looking at their final years during the 1970 s before the company was sold off in 1982 The final programme looks at some of the engineering developments in the 21st century in order to ensure farming methods keep moving forward We see some of machines employed in removing hedging & spreading slurry
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Writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions Without it there would be no history & no civilization as we know it But how when & where did writing evolve? In a succinct absorbing & well-illustrated text Andrew Robinson discusses the history of decipherment & then each of the major writing systems in turn from cuneiform & Egyptian & Mayan hieroglyphs to alphabets & the scripts of China & Japan An invaluable guide to the worlds major writing systems The Story of Writing is a book to read for both pleasure & enlightenment ...

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