Ransomes and the Tractor Share Ploughs, Anthony Clare. Hardback book 246 x 189 mm, 100 pages inc.120 photographs. ISBN 978-1-903366-12-7. Now available from Old Pond at £15.95.
Aimed at tractor and ploughing enthusiasts, this is the first book to classify, describe and show the wide range of ploughs produced by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies. It is ‘a requirement for every Ransomes library’, in the words of Old Glory magazine.
After a brief introduction to the company’s history, Tony Clare gives an account of the ploughs which dominated the horse era of farming and were then adapted to be trailed behind tractors and mounted on them. He covers in detail the development of tractor plough design as well as ploughs for special purposes, market-garden use and export.
He deals with Ford-Ransomes manufacturing as well as the rationalisations of the 1960s and the final links with Dowdeswells.
Analyses of plough identification codes, the ‘TS’ classifications and a glossary complete a comprehensive and very usable book for the many people who value their Ransomes ploughs for matches and at work.
Ransomes and their Tractor Share Ploughs was first published in 2001. This 2013 reprint includes a number of minor amendments.
Tractor and farm machinery enthusiast Tony Clare is also the author of The Nuffield Tractor Story Volume One.
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