You are bidding for a video record of the long discarded 16mm film described below.   When the film  was made it provided a unique insight into its particular subject.  Over the last thirty years a number of ethusiasts realised that such films provided an untapped source of information on past techniques and methods At some time in the past it would have been rescued after being discarded as obsolete by the original owners .

Any money raised from the sale of this video will go towards offsetting the costs of more rescues. 

This DVD recorded during a showing of the short  films described.

Ferguson Films

Films  Ferguson training course at Stoneleigh.

John Arlott.  Cutaway Ferguson and examples with various implement. Workshop course  club downstairs in the Basement.

Gang mowing to improve the grass by regular mowing so that the in tine it will improve.

Train loads of tractors going for export. Show an tractors in Denmark. Smallholders formed a partnership to share a Ferguson between 7.

Flexible Farming. Showing actually a Ford Ferguson as this film was made before British built Ferguson. How to plough as at this time a mounted plough was a completely new.  Then setting for more awkward fields.  Hard, Stony  and trashy ground.  Ploughing uphill.

The tiller still use a US built  tractors.

The Disc Harrow and again a US built tractor.  These films were used to introduce the Ferguson  to British farms. I suspect this film was originally shot on the states.42 minutes  all films  Black and White.

Harry Ferguson  was an early advocate of 16mm  film  as a way to show farmers what they were missing  if they had not yet bought the Ferguson  System   

Technical Note. This is a DVD record of a private screening. Transfer quality is to enable the contents to be studied rather than to achieve the  high standard achieved by professional broadcast and commercial video  publishers

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Sectioned Line Drawing of vintage tractors, choice of makes, how they work.

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