This year’s AGM/AMW is near Glasgow at the Holiday Inn, East Kilbride. G74 5LA. From Friday 17th to Sunday 19th April 2026. All members are welcome.
Area rep Kevin Britton has put together an amazing itinerary. Please use the link below to read all the details and to access the booking form:-
Please click on this link to access the digital copy to include the booking form:-
AGM 2026 – Information & Booking Form.docx
Two interesting YouTube video that have emerged:
The Ferguson Club Shop is now online! Please see the Merchandise section of this website. It’s in time to get your orders in for Christmas. Plenty of stock being added – keep looking in.
On Sunday 3rd August BBC showed a repeat item on Countryfile.Whilst the first 40 minutes of so is about the Wensleydale railway in Yorkshire, 43 minutes in it has a section about HF and features Peter Warr on the Drinkwater Farm in the Cotswolds back in 2015. Looking at the dates of the other Countryfle recordings, it should be available until 3rd August 2026 or therabouts …
You can find it here on iPlayer
THE FERGUSON CLUB AGM /AMW held over the weekend of 12TH – 13TH April
Another excellent weekend was had by all attendees of this annual event. Adele and Harry Campbell (Area reps for Northern Ireland) put together a tremendous Agenda. It was centred around The Ivanhoe Hotel just south of Belfast. The hotel itself provided great food and wonderful service.
After the Saturday morning AGM we all went off on a mystery tour coach ride. The tour took in points of interest of Harry Fergusons early life. We saw his birth place and home where his family lived. The place of his first flight in his own aircraft in 1909. Finishing at Newcastle beach where Harry Ferguson completed the first full flight over 3 miles, winning a prize in doing so.
A full three course dinner in the evening at The Ivanhoe included a raffle and auction prizes, all proceeds going to charity. On Sunday 13th April we all went down to Lusk just north of Dublin to see a most amazing tractor collection. This collection has been put together over many years of hard work by Mr Michael Hoey. It was a really great way to end a spectacular weekend.
An interesting 30 min video filmed in 1958 of Mr Evans’ Gilfachwyth Farm near Llandysul in Cardiganshire, West Wales. It was a model of organised and efficient modern farming methods – it was selected to be highlighted for the 1958 Royal Welsh Show. This information film offers a plethora of detail about farming methods using Ferguson TE20 tractors. From fertilisers, ploughing and grazing to reaping, hay making and sheep shearing – but it’s far from a dry instructional. Wonderful colour views over the farmland blend with the choral soundtrack to offer a romantic look at postwar Welsh rural life. Click on the link below to view:-
Watch Stori Gilfachwyth online – BFI Player
(On MS Windows computers, BFI Film Player needs Microsoft Edge browser, doesn’t work in Chrome or Firefox)
A STATEMENT FROM THE TRUSTEES OF THE DUNSFOLD COLLECTION
As some of your members will know, the late Michael Thorne bequeathed The Coldridge Collection to The Dunsfold Collection (a registered charity) and we want your members to be formally aware of this, now that Mike’s Executor has submitted the application for Grant of Probate.
Mike and our founder, the late Brian Bashall, were friends for many years and Mike was also a friend of one of our trustees, Richard Beddall.
Until the Probate process has been concluded it would not be appropriate to discuss the matter in detail, but it is our intention to preserve Mike’s name and achievements for future generations as best we can.
Richard Beddall
on behalf of the Trustees of the Dunsfold Collection, Philip Bashall, Richard Beddall, Andrew Munden and Gary Pusey.
The Dunsfold Collection, Registered under the Charities Acts No. 1156848.
The Ferguson Club have supported the above book and it is now in print and available to purchase through this website. Please go to the Merchandise section Club Shop.
Bill was principally well known for being the published expert on the history of the London taxi, after having spent most of his life driving one. He was the official historian of the London Electric Vehicle Company Ltd, makers of the TX purpose-built London taxi and its commercial vehicle variant, the VN5. Another of his interests was Ferguson four-wheel drive and Bill researched Harry Ferguson Research Ltd. and FF Developments extensively, ending up writing the excellent book – “Traction For Sale” with Pat Turner in 2019.
Bill really embraced the Ferguson Club and committed to writing an article on Ferguson vehicles in every Journal. For the last 12 months Bill worked closely with me on behalf of the Club, taking Peter Warr’s detailed story of working with Harry Ferguson to the book it is about to become. Sadly, Bill passed away just before the book went to print. Peter’s and Bill’s legacy will live on through this book – “Harry Ferguson. The Man, the Machines, the Memories”
Gary Anderson.
Hi it’s Niall Martin here at the Nationwide TV programme in RTE . Just to let you know the item we filmed at the Ferguson work day at the Ulster Folk park and subsequently at the ceremony for the Black tractor being loaned to the Ulster Transport museum will be broadcast on 16th September 2024.
It was broadcast on 16th September at 7pm on RTE1. And is now available on www.rte.ie/player.
It stays up on the Player for 3 weeks and you can publish a link to it on your social media and website .
The Sheldon family are interviewed on the item. Hope you enjoy it
Regards; Niall Martin ; Producer RTE