Friday 22nd September 1972
A Minniapolis Moline Z tractor, No. Z.T.V. 570972, owned by G.R.A. Pickford of Stourton, near Warminster, is one of the exhibits in the Vintage Tractors section of the Fourth Great Working of Steam Engines at Stourpaine Bushes, near Blandford Forum, which takes place on Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th September 1972.
Built in 1942, the tractor was purchased by its present owner’s father, Allan Pickford, in August 1942 from S. Braddick & Son, Gillingham, Dorset. Supplied on steel wheels, it was converted to rubber tyres in 1948. It has been in regular use. For the last two years it has been used mainly for belt work. The tractor came to this country from the U.S.A. under “lease-lend” and was allocated by the then Dorset W.A.E.C. for use at Hardings Farm, Buckhorn Weston.