David Cooper on Tractors

They had two tractors, two Fordson Major tractors and they also had a 1940’s Fordson standard tractor, which was a smaller thing, one of the original … tractors and they all started, they weren’t diesel, they all started on paraffin or tractor vaporising oil and then when the engine warmed up you switched over to petrol and that was quite common in those days, TVO, tractor vaporising oil.

Yes, so they had three tractors. I didn’t do much in the tractor driving line except at cultivating time, I used to do a bit of ploughing with the standard tractor and also disc harrowing, breaking the soil down so it could be sown with corn or whatever.