Classic Massey & Ferguson Enthusiast

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

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WORKING 565 • The Massey Ferguson 500 Series range helped define agricultural machinery in the 1970s. Roy MacGregor from Dumfries and Galloway owns a tidy MF 565, as Bob Weir recently discovered.

FESTIVAL OF TRANSPORT CELEBRATES 50 YEARS

KEN CHAPPELL MBE, 1934 – 2026

SUPERB RURAL PAST TIMES

SHEPHERD HUTS WITH MASSEY CONNECTION

FERGUSON BROWNS SELL FOR A SNIP

2027 NATIONAL VINTAGE TRACTOR ROAD RUN PULLS OUT

KEITH SHERRELL

DAVID KIDD

DVLA ANNOUNCES FINAL TRANCHE OF REVISIONS TO HISTORIC VEHICLE REGISTRATION POLICY

FBHVC EXAMINING TWO CONSULTATIONS

NEWARK IS HERE!

WELLAND BEST

ROGER PENNY

JOHN WAKEHAM

ROGER EASTON

EVENTS DIARY • Jayne Love gives you all an exclusive up-to-date list of sales you might like to partake in. It could be just where that elusive part or first time tractor you have been looking for is within the lots. If your sale is not listed and want to be included please get in touch, pl@peter-love.co.uk tel: 01323 833125.

THE CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT LASTS ALL YEAR!

MASSEY FERGUSON AT THE FARM PROGRESS SHOW • It’s the biggest agricultural show in the world in 2026, and the editor took a group to enjoy the event and take a look at the AGCO MF stand.

PASSING ON THE PLOUGHING PASSION • Harry Bassett may be known to some of the readership as an up-and-coming Massey Ferguson ploughman in the Vintage Mounted class. He is 21 years old and a technician with a local John Deere dealership in Derbyshire, near to where he lives.

THE STORY OF THE MASSEY FERGUSON 100 SERIES PART 1 – CHANGING OF THE GUARD • Jonathan Whitlam runs through how the ever growing 100 series came into being.

FRUITFUL FERGUSON • Joseph Lewis discovers a young Devon-based restorer’s Ferguson High Lift MIL loader project, commonly known as the curved ‘banana’ M-UE20 loader.

FERGUSON TE-20 SEAT REPAIRS • In this issue Richard Lofting looks at the cracked and rusted seat on his Ferguson TE-20, which he sets to sort out, as only he can.

KEEPING THEM ORIGINAL • In this issue Ben Phillips gets down gets down to other jobs from the engine and transmission on the Massey Ferguson 35, including the front axle.

SALES CORNER • In this issue we have a bumper look at the latest sales starting with the H. J. Pugh, 31 July – 1 August sale, which took place at their HQ at Ledbury. It featured the Mourne Sale Part 2; the late David Leighton’s collection and Richard Sherratt’s MF items. We then travel to Harrogate for David Reed’s report on the Cheffins collective sale there on 15 August and follow this with the 19 August Euro Auctions Sale at Leeds. We then head to the Cheffins Randell sale in Norfolk on 1 September and, lastly, the Pugh Adkins sale on 3 September. All these sales featured many family machines.

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