Old Pond publishing days

Best in Show at Malvern

We are delighted that the Overall Best in Show - and also winner of the industrial class - at the Malvern Tractor Show is Mike Eacock's newly restored JCB III3.

Several other of Mike's machines are featured on Old Pond's 2008 DVD "JCB's Backhoe Loader".

The traction engines in 'The Moon and the Sledgehammer'

Three steam engines feature in the film: the Allchin; the Fowler in the wood; and the Fowler in the last scene on the road.

Peter Love (ex-editor of Tractor & Machinery magazine), who knows a lot about steam traction engines and a lot about the film, says that whereas the Allchin belonged to the Page family, the Fowlers were 'borrowed' for the sake of the filming. The Allchin is apparently now in preservation in Ireland.

Peterborough Tractor Show 2009 cancelled

At the Malvern Tractor Show today Kelsey Publishing announced that there will be no autumn tractor show this year put on by them at the Peterborough Showground. Our blog of 18 November stated that there was an unfortunate clash of dates with the Newark Show. This is how it has been resolved.

Does this mean that someone else will seize the initiative and try to run an alternative autumn tractor show at a venue farther north?

Meanwhile, we also hear that, following their outstanding success this year, the LAMMA organisers are investigating the possibility of extending their 2010 show from the current two days to three....