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How many of you have longed to know where a favourite old tractor went, how it spent its working life, where it is now or whether it could be tracked down and bought back somehow? Perhaps it’s all about luck; being in the right place at the right time, or noticing some detail on a tractor that ‘rings a bell’.

One day, each of these factors fell into place for FFA member David Harvey, when he happened to be in Jock Paterson’s yard, near Kirkoswald, in Cumbria. What follows is his story about the Ford 5610 that his family first bought back in the mid-1980s, and which he’s since located and restored beautifully.

David writes…

It was way back in 1964,

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