Books

Description: Full Roadless history. A lot of background information and details about the development of Roadless, including the cooperation with Selen. Well illustrated with primarily original archival material.  

Description: Part two of a very wide review of ten van Massey-Harrisand Ferguson products. Small tools like grinders, earth scoops but also hay making equipment, combines, balers and other harvesting equipment. Also a wide review of undustrial machines and a review of collectors items such as advertising signs, pins and cast iron lids. Extensive appendix containing serial numbers, years of production, numbers produced and sales figures.

• Writer: John Farnworth
• text in english 
• 400 pg. 
• Hard bound

Part one of a very well illustrated review of Massey-Harris and Ferguson products and companies that were related to Massey such as Landini, Ursus, TAFE, Eicher and Minneapolis Moline. Reviews the outlets and factories worldwide for tillage implements and tractors. Extensive appendix containing original price lists. 

• Writer: John Farnworth
• text in english. 
• 400 pg. 
• Hard bound

Historical document about the development of the grey Fergie. Includes a lot of background information, also about prototypes and special versions of the Ferguson tractor. Also information about the implements including the lesser known ones like the Ferguson beetharvester and wrap around combine. Contains many photo's and information from people that worked with Ferguson that has never been published before. Includes an overview of serial numbers and years.

• Writer: Stuart Gibbard
• text in english 168 pg. 
• Well illustrated, black and white as well as color photo;s. 
• Hard bound.

Massey Ferguson Prospekte der 100er serie. Description: Massey Ferguson sales literature of the 100 series as marketed in Germany from the model 130 up to 1100. The literature is typical for the German market from a time that both the sales literature and tractors for the German market were different. Partly due to different legal requirements.Even some model numbers were unique for Germany like the model 177.
Also a separate chapter on four wheel drive versions of models like the 165, 168, 188 and 1080.

• Publisher: Klaus Rabe.
• German 239 pg.
• Photo's both color and black and white.
• Hard bound.

The book discusses the different factories all over the world. Also the assembly operations such like South Africa. The book is based on archive material from all over the world. There is specifications of over 250 different tractors listed, accompanied with a photo. There is also attention for the introduction of tractors in deffent parts of the world. For instance with a separate chapter about the introduction by the American division of the MF 1100 and 1130 to customers.

• Writer: John Farnworth
• text in english
• Hard bound
• 325 pg
• Photo's color and black and white

Description: Full review of in chronological order with technical data of the Fendt tractors of 1974 to 2009. Photograph of each of the tractors included.

• Writer: Peter Schneider
• Text in German. 
• 128 pg. 
• 110 black and white photos. 
• Soft bound.

Description: Full review in chronological order and technical data of the Fendt tractors. Color photograph of every tractor included.  

Description: Extensive history of Fendt from the early beginnings in 1927 up to 2015. Background information about the development of the Dieselross, the toolcarrier and the development of the Vario transmission. Chronological review of models and their years of production. Illustrations primarily from original archival material.

• Writer: Klaus Hermann 
• Text in German. 
• 232 pg. 
• 155 color photo's
• 44 black-white photo's
• Hard bound.

Description: This book contains the main technical specifications of all Fendt tractors from the very first selfpropelled mower of 1928 up to the Vari TMS tractors of 2002-2003. The book is compiled in chapters per series of tractors and every chapter is preceded with a brief story of the main features of the serie. The first 118 pages of the book consists of a rather detailed history of the company and all of it's activities including things like caravan production and forklifts. Also information on prototypes and studies.

Description This book is written by Lothar Fritz, a person who was involved in the development of the Deutz Intrac tractor from day one. The book describes the development of the Intrac in all it's details, including many photographs of prototypes and early developments. The book also pays attention to rather unknown projects and their prototypes like the Deutz 200. Joint developments with tractor makers like Steiger in the USA, Steyr in Austria and Renault in France. The book starts with a brief history of Schmotzer, the company where Lothar Fritz started his career.

• Text in German
• Contains many photographs, primarily in color
• 142 pages
• Hard bound

• German written
• 142 pages
• Hard bound 21*28 cm (A4)

Description: First part of a series of 3 books about the history of David Brown.

The author Gibbard gives an in depth history of David Brown's activities, including the gear production that David Brown originally started with and still runs today. Tractors are the major part of the book and cover the period up to the Crop Master.
Many original factory photo's including information and photo's of prototypes.

• Writers: Robert N. Pripps & Andrew Morland
• Text in English. 
• 208 pg. 
• Hard bound.

Description: Caterpillar crawlers and bulldozers in all kinds of applications, agricultural as well as construction. Original factory photos from the 1904 -1963 period.

Description: Historical document about the history of the American agricultural program by Allis Chalmers. It incudes background information about the development of prototypes that never went into production. Well illustrated with original factory photos. Includes Nebraska test data and a review of numbers produced per year.  

• Writer: Norm Swinford
• Text in English. 
• 900 photo's of which 250 in color. 
• 384 pg. 
• Hard bound.

Description: Photo galery with extensive commentary on the prime American tractors of the 60's. The period of time that performance of the agricultural tractor was quickly rising. The book is built of separate chapters per brand, John Deere, International Harvester, Case, Allis Chalmers, Massey Ferguson, Ford, White and others like Versatile, Steiger, Big Bud and the less known MRS.

A Century of Farm Tractors 1904-2004 is published in New Zealand to celebrate 100 years of tractors in this country. The first tractor in New Zealand, the Kinnard Haines Flour City was demonstrated in May 1904 near Christchurch on the South Island.
The book is compiled by Richard Robinson, New Zealand's prime tractor expert on farm tractors.

The book consists of 10 chapters, each covering 10 years of tractors in New Zealand. Every chapter dicusses all brands that were sold in New Zealand that year and are extensively illustrated by photo's. Many of the photo's are in full color, some are original photo's, others are photo's taken at private collections of tractor rallys. The book gives a lot of interesting information, both by text and illustrations.

Traktor Spezial is a German quarterly magazine dedicated to the classic tractor. Very well illustrated and with a lot of background information with a good eye for the unusual tractor.

Main focus in this edition is on

MB Trac 1800

Poppy harvest in France

Case IH Maxxum from Neuss

LI-Trac (MALI)

Fendt 926

Deutz Fahr Agrotron 6140

• 68 pages
• German written
• A-4 format