Pink Ladies Tractor Road Run and fund raising

The Ferguson Clubs Area Rep for Norfolk (Pulham Market) – Victoria Tuck – is very active with the Pink Ladies Tractor Fund Raising team. Here is a summary of her activity this Summer. Please do support Victoria if you can:-

https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/victorias-2025-tractor-run

2025 will be my 3rd Pink Ladies Tractor Run, I will be doing the run on a very special grey Fergie tractor who is owned by Mr & Mrs Norfolk Mancave. Unfortunately Mrs Mancave has breast cancer and is currently having treatment. This is a very emotional journey for all who are part of this tractor’s 2025 run.
If you would like to see the tractor’s renovation please use the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/@NorfolkMancave

Our 2025 ‘Ladies Only’ tractor run, is on Sunday 6th July. Since 2004, the Ladies’ Tractor Road Run has raised over £1 million for Breast Cancer Research, receiving massive support from not only the local communities around Harleston, Norfolk, but from all around the world.

For more information about the Pink Ladies’ Tractor Road Run please visit

https://www.ladiestractorroadrun.co.uk

Many, many thanks.

Victoria

 THE FERGUSON CLUB AGM /AMW held over the weekend of 12^TH – 13^TH 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.

Photos will appear soon – please keep checking….. 🙂

An informative film about Ferguson TE20 tractors being used in 1958

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

Update to the Coldridge Collection – Jan 2025

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.

Book ; Harry Ferguson; The Man, the machines, the memories – A Memoir of life at Abbotswood- By Peter Warr

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 for details and to register your interest to purchase.

Bill Munro – Accomplished Author and Publisher

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.

Goodyear Diamond straight lug rear tyres – Remanufacture

There is an interest amongst many of our Club members to purchase a set of the above rear tyres for their TE20’s. A company is looking into the remanufacture but would like to get a feel for the demand.

If any other members read this and would like to show their interest please email……

lindsayhart@titaneurope.com

Thank you.

Ferguson Club AGM / AMW 2025

Notice of Intent to Attend AGM / AMW 2025 ; The Ferguson Club AGM and AMW (Annual Memebers Weekend) 2025 will be held on Saturday 12th April 2025 kindly organised by Harry and Adele Campbell, Area Reps for Northern Ireland.

The venue for the AGM and AMW will be The Ivanhoe Hotel, 556 Saintfield Road, Belfast, BT8 8EU.

TELEPHONE: 028 9081 2240.

Details will be in the Journal and on the club website as they are confirmed. All room bookings to be made through the hotel using Ref FERGUSON25. Current Agenda:-

The 2025 AGM / AMW 2025 will commence Friday 11th April 2025 to Sunday 13th April 2025.

If you require a booking pack, please complete the form below and send it to Harry Campbell, 2 Manse Hill, Newry, Co. Down, BT34 1ND. or email ga_campbell99@hotmail.co.uk

I……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. request an AGM 2025 / AMW 2025 pack

Number of persons attending…………………. Membership Number………………………..

Address…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
E-mail address if applicable……………………………………………………………………………………

Thank you.