Ashprington Tractor Fest 2026 was an absolute joy to attend with an incredible variety of machinery on show with classic bikes, cars lorries and military WW2 stuff around but this Fowler 4 pot petrol engined ploughing tractor caught my eye - a glorious BEAST of a thing with a really lovely owner driver who uses it for demonstrations locally.

I spotted the brake pads were wooden and they are fashioned from Poplar as it is least likely to catch fire !

We had a lot in common engineering wise and his wife has a factory MGB with Rover 3.5 which he can't get in he chortled, he was a marvelous Fowler sized man well capable of steering the beast.

He'll be here on the 08/08/26 but we will be touring Eire so will miss this years event.

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Phoey - power steering on a Morgan rofl somestick

Did I mention the Otter on sale in the Horsebox..