During a pretense of doing a bit of pre-xmas work I was clearing out my inbox and stumbled across this image emailed in by FWi fan, Adrian Shingler.
The story is that Adrian's father was a farmer for many years, a one day in 1956 he took delivery of a Massey 65 (the first 50hp tractor in the country) and more interestingly a Claas combine - the first self propelled german combine in the country.
Apparently, once the vehicles arrived, Farmers Weekly contracted Illfords photograghers to go to the farm and photograph the new machine working.
The photographer informed Mr Shingler that the picture would be on front cover of the next issue of Farmers Weekly, and sure enough it was.
Attached is the one of the images but we'd love to hear if anyone still has a copy of the actual issue.