Archive Article: 2002/08/09

9 August 2002

Vintage performance…an amazing 1812 tractors plough a 20ha (50-acre) field on the Cooley peninsular in Co Louth, Ireland, in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records. Organisers needed to attract 900 tractors to the event to beat the existing world record of 730 working vintage tractors, but double the number turned up and the record was well and truly smashed. The event raised over k100,000 (£63,000) for hospice charities.