We all keep an eye open for some of the scarce books that cover our machines, always hoping that one will turn up at a car boot sale, and sometimes we get lucky, if not we have to guess what they contain.
On that well known auction site a couple of weeks ago, a chap was offering a copy of “British Tractors and Powered Cultivators” by Ashby 1949 . I was curious and ordered a copy from my local library, if it is not stocked in their area, you have to pay £7.00 to borrow it, it took a couple of weeks, but they found a copy for me from Devon, what a very good book, it covers just about every machine you can imagine in the Horticultural world, right down to the Lloyd Sickle mower, it contains full specifications and prices of all the bits in 1949. I have ordered other books like this from the library in the past, if it is from the British Library, then you have to agree to a £100. fine if you lose it, which seems fair enough, given the light fingered brigade out there, Well worth it, if you cant get hold of a copy for yourself.
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