Consisting of four titles - Tractor Insight, Vintage Tractors and Vintage Tractors at Work Vol.I & Vol.II – this is a comprehensive insight into the world of agricultural machinery. 

Today, tractors are a common sight when driving through the countryside. However, the first commercially successful tractor design was only created in 1902 – so tractors have only been in use for just over 110 years. 

The first engine-powered farm tractors used steam and were built as small road locomotives; these programmes explore the evolution into what we know today and the many different uses the tractor has been put to.

From the humble 'grey Fergie' and David Brown Cropmaster to the monsters working today's farms this collections covers all the bases.

TRACTOR INSIGHT

Since the dawn of internal combustion engine technology one of its most important applications has been in the agricultural tractor. 

The development of reliable and powerful tractors led to huge changes within the farming industry and significantly reduced the labour and time involved.

This programme discusses the development of tractors from these early days around the beginning of the 20th century through to the 1960s. 

Many preserved tractors are shown including examples produced by some of the most significant manufacturers such as Fordson, Ferguson, International Harvester, John Deere, Marshall and many more. 

The cameras visit some of the biggest gatherings of vintage agricultural machinery such as the Great Dorset Steam Fair.

VINTAGE TRACTORS

Tractors are an everyday part of many lives up and down the country. In 1902 that certainly wasn't the case. 

We go right back to the first commercially available British tractor in this programme to trace the development from small powered steam engines to gasoline-powered internal combustion engines.

On the way we look at everything in between as well.

VINTAGE TRACTORS AT WORK

The most common use of tractors is agriculturally – they can often be seen ploughing and harvesting the fields, hay baling, and transporting of heavy goods. 

Vintage Tractors at Work explores the uses and development of tractors at work from the earliest steam powered locomotive and how they were used at time of release as well as how the tractor models were developed with the changing times around them.

VINTAGE TRACTORS AT WORK VOLUME TWO

Tractors are one of the most important tools to a farmer due to its ability to have various attachments and implements giving it lots of different uses for different jobs such as ploughing the fields, planting the seeds, smoothing the soil and much much more.

 Following on from Vintage Tractors at Work, this programme explores the many different uses of the tractor on the farm – it does a lot more than just plough the fields!