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Flash 600 & Tractorbob, Thanks so much for the great comments on our latest issue. It's always good to get feedback, positive or otherwise. I'm my own worst critic but I was generally pleased with how the latest issue turned out. Regards R Day Classic Tractor

Dear ford4ever, A lovely present for your brother-in-law (I would say that). He should get a reminder. Regards Rory

Archbarch I appreciate your comments. Don't let our County special put you off looking at our September issue, though, which contains much more than just Countys. There's lots of factual and informative articles on tyres, low-sulphur diesel, etc. Regards R Day

Archbarch & Tractorbob You make some very valid comments ref the advertising content of Classic Tractor. It is correct to say that the number of pages of advertising has increased as the years have gone by, but so too have the number of editorial pages. We are currently running in the region of 80 pages of editorial each month, a significant increase on the earlier issues. The number of pages of display advertising has remained fairly constant, but the number of pages of classified adverts has increased in recent years, especially in the past 18 months. Our readership had indicated that they would like to see more classified adverts in the magazine and we responded to this by making it easier to send them in and also signposting the section a little better. There is some good news for you in the September issue Archbarch because we have a special section dedicated just to County! Regards R Day Classic Tractor

Very neat and tidy Mr F. I am liking the MF Worldwide Catalogues....very nice. R Day

Thank you Flash 600, glad you are enjoying the issue. Thanks also to Robbo for providing some excellent background info that really helped with the theft feature in this issue. Regards R Day

I just hope it wasn't the one of you lying naked on a straw bale with a Triple Triangle badge (very small) carefully positioned to obscure your private parts. AGCO's photographer showed me that one about three months ago and to be honest I still have the nervous twitch that it gave me when I first saw it. R Day

Thank you for your comments, Gentlemen. It's always good to have some feedback, good, bad or otherwise. I'm glad you are enjoying the latest issue and thank you once again for your support. I will pass on these comments to the contributing team. Regards R Day

Powerrabbit, Yes, they are quite valuable, but seem to go up and down. I sold a couple of doubles from the 1960s on eBay about 18 months ago for just £30 each. However, they subsequently reappeared at Cheffins vintage sale 6 months later and made between £200-£300 each! At the more recent Cheffins sale, I bought a 1960s edition and a 1970s edition for, I think, about £160 each, for a friend who was terminally ill but loved collecting old agricultural books and magazines (he's since sadly died). So there's no rhym or reason, but the book in the T&M is reasonably priced at £60. R Day

Powerrabbit Your story sounds familiar. A lot of Green Books I have in my collection are ex-College libraries or organisations like the HSE, who would buy the latest edition every year. I once got about 15 from the HSE at Nottingham who were moving to new premises, couldn't believe my luck as it was a fantastic haul. They were also disposing of a about a filing cabinet load of leaflets dating back to the mid-1960s. It took me ages to process and file them away. Regards Rory

Dear RichardJW1, I am very familiar with the Green Books and have been collecting them for about 15-20 years. It was launched in 1951 and continued until about 1991/1992, as far as I can gather, at which point the price had risen to £125 (and I don't think there were any pictures in the later volumes, just spec. They are actually harder to find than the earlier editions, probably because of the price and limited circulation. There was a main Winter edition, published in time for the Smithfield Show, followed by a thinner Summer update. Each had its own Volume number. I am missing about half a dozen of the winter editions and quite a few summer editions. An excellent book packed with pictures of tractors and machinery. Regards R Day

Dear FNHIR, I think you may be correct, John Kearney is related in some way to the owners of Kearney Bros, the Deutz agents in the Fermoy area. This is but one of many stories John is working on for us in the Republic. After years of patchy coverage from the Republic of Ireland, I'm just pleased to have a regular contributor on board who can provide our many Irish readers with some features closer to home. Regards R Day

Ford Crazy, Those are lovely brochures, especially the French Super Major, Dexta and Super Dexta brochures, never seen any of those before. The Swedish Fordson Major brochures is a good one, too. Well done and thanks for sharing them with us. R Day

Lord F, Yes, you're right, madness comes with the job and also from collecting tractor brochures, as you well know! R Day

Dear Blue Man Thanks for the comments. You are absolutely right. The red County was built by County Tractors of Knighton who were owned by the Benson Group, who took over County Tractors of Fleet in late 1987. We've done our homework on this model and spoken to former engineers, etc, although in the absence of any production records it's difficult to say exactly how many were made, give or take one or two. Ref the Ford and Fordson expo, we've got a photographer and reporter at the event and will be running a report in the next issue, all being well. Regards R Day

MDFord, ref back issues, I know the feeling. Sundial Magazines have always sent me about 75 a month to distribute to people involved in the magazine. Usually about 50 get sent out, sometimes more, but I seem to have a massive stack of magazines now going back to the very early days of issues No.1 and No.2. I did purge a few some time ago but still have stacks and stacks. An earlier poster mentioned the red County 1184 at Cheffins on 24 April. Excuse the plug but we've got the full story of this tractor in the next issue, a good 5-pager. Plus our MF 390 makes its comeback, fully finished and looking good after an epic rebuild. Glad you are all enjoying the latest issue and thanks for your support. Regards R Day Classic Tractor

Lovely brochures, Marky. I've got the English/export ones, but the Australian brochures are all new to me. Never seen any of them before. Very nice, especially the MF 135/148 brochure. Want, want, as they say. I hope to be able to send you some pics of my latest finds at MF....some lovely export brochures and stuff I've never seen before, although obviously not ancient, probably back to the early 1990s. Regards R Day

Lord F Lovely MF 1805 brochure....one that I don't have but would like. Was watching it on eBay and it made good money. I am loving this thread....really good to see what other people are buying and have. I am hoping to collect a pretty big haul of recent MF product literature on Thursday, mainly from the past 5 years, but likely to include quite a lot of overseas material, so will try and get some pictures of that and post them up. I think there may be some Turkish tractor literature, possibly non-MF stuff, which sounds really interesting and just up my street, the more unusual the better. I'll keep you posted. Regards R Day

Lord, That would be incredibly good of you. I will take some pics of latest purchases. I will batch the brochures together so that there are say 8 brochures on each picture. Regards R Day

Great to see this post and everyone's latest tractor brochure purchases. Lord F....that MF 35 industrial is a rare one indeed. I've got it myself, but I've only ever seen the one I have before you turned up with the one from eBay. Can someone explain to me how I can get pictures of my latest brochure buys posted onto the site? I'm a novice at such things. Regards R Day

Simon, Buying two issues in one month, that's impressive......we need more customers like you! Thanks for your support and I'm glad you are enjoying the latest issue. Regards Rory

Nashmach, Ref the Case 2294, you don't miss much, do you? Neil Threadgold, the owner of the Case 2294, has just bought a NH TM175. I think he faniced a bit more comfort and is hoping that the TM175 behaves itself. As for the Ford 6630, not sure about that. I'll see if anyone at New Holland knows the details. It has certainly been a talking point, though, so perhaps it has worked well as an advert? Regards Rory

Dear Barry, Jordantaylor, Toolbox Tam & tractortim, Glad you got your copies of the latest issue. Thank you as ever for your kind words and comments. I'm really pleased you liked the May issue. Regards Rory Classic Tractor

Robbo, The Nuffield 126 you refer to is a 110hp IMT 5106, painted in Harvest Gold colours. I 'uncovered' the existence of these tractors (there were five of them) back in 1995/96 and wrote about them in my T&M days in the same year. There's a full length feature on the tractor in the issue of Classic Tractor published at the end of April. Regards R Day

I will put you out of your misery Lord F. Your MF 135 feature is indeed in the latest issue of T&M and is even flagged up on the cover, rather strangely under the title of 'MF 135 variants'.