Forestry Memories

Fordson Roadless tractor ploughing at Ascot

Fordson Roadless tractor ploughing at Ascot

Date Added: 16 January 2014 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1952 Picture No: 2162

Forestry Commission copyright image of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin. A83

Part of Machinery Deveolpment Committee programme of work being undertaken at Ascot in 1952 namely the use of a Fordson Roadless tractor to pull several ploughs fitted to the hydraulic lifting system. Here it is pulling a single furrow Forson Ransomes Deep Digger plough. This report was ciculated in Scotland. See HQ MDC report No 22 elsewhere on this site.

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Groups: Forest Research, Forestry in Action, Other Vehicles and Machines, Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines

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