Ferguson Club AGM 2024 – 20th April 2024

Booking information in the Events Calendar

Chiltern Vintage Tractor Run – 19th May 2024

Thank you to all those that took part it was an amazing day raising funds for the Air Ambulance.

Chiltern Vintage Tractor Charity Run
Sunday 19th May 2024
(18th Anniversary)

This year we would like to thank our key sponsor – Knight Frank Estate Agents in Henley-on-Thames

The (mostly) took place on the Sunday of the
NTT Fawley Hill Vintage Weekend extravaganza
The supported Charity will be the Thames Valley Air Ambulance, with donations via Justgiving.

Thank you to all those that took part – an update to funds raised will be shown when available.

Any questions, Gary Anderson, website@fergusonclub.com

Harry Ferguson: the Man, the Machines, the Memories.
A memoir of life at Abbotswood,
By Peter Warr

Peter Warr’s name is known to many of you as the man who was the curator of the Ferguson Family Museum on the Isle of Wight. Peter spent his early adult years working for Mr Ferguson at his country estate, Abbotswood, near Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. He continued to work for the family right up until his retirement.
Now in his nineties, Peter has written a personal memoir of his time spent at Abbotswood, from 1950, to the time of Mr Ferguson’s death in 1960.
This was the period during which Ferguson won his monumental court case with the Ford Motor Company, sold out to Massey-Harris and acquired what was Dixon-Rolt Developments Ltd, which he reformed it as Harry Ferguson Research Ltd, the company that developed the unique Ferguson four-wheel drive cars.
Part of Peter’s work at Abbotswood was to demonstrate these cars and their remarkable capabilities to the motor industry and press, whilst the other part involved testing tractors and implements and general work on the estate, some of which created the landscape features that are still in place to this day.
In his recollections, Peter gives a unique, personal insight into Harry Ferguson’s character in the last decade of his life. They show that at this time, with his physical and mental health in decline and the blunt refusal of the motor industry to take up his four-wheel drive car, Ferguson still retained his charisma, personal kindness and consideration to others that endeared him to all who knew him and worked with him. Includes a Foreword by Mr Ferguson’s grandson, Jamie Sheldon

The book can now be purchased through the Club Shop

Ferguson Event 19th May 2024 – David Brown Museum – Meltham

There is a Ferguson Day being organised at the David Brown Museum on the 19th May 2024 between  10.00am  and 3.00pm.  The theme will be “what happened after the Ferguson Brown”.

We are looking for about a dozen interesting Ferguson/Ford, Ferguson tractors  to be there on the day and help tell the story.

This day is being organised by Peter Smith and Julie Browning. Please contact Peter and Julie on this email  ford9n404@gmail.com if you can support with a Fergie to exhibit. This will enable numbers and tractors to be managed. All visitors  are welcome.  They have cafe on site.

Meltham Mills Industrial Estate, Gate 4, Unit J2, Knowle Ln, Meltham HD9 4DS

Thank you.

2024 Chiltern Vintage Tractor Charity Run

The Ferguson Club supported 2024 Vintage Tractor Run ; Sunday 19th May 2024 – this is the date that we are planning for this years Charity (mostly) off road tractor run. The plan is to run the event on the Sunday of the NTT Fawley Hill Vintage Weekend extravaganza. Please contact Gary Anderson – club website address – for further details. website@fergusonclub.com

It’ll be a great day.