CTC Easter Road Run
17th April 2006



The day dawned bright and glorious. We all arrived at Sunny Corner for 10.30am. Basil and Ann had already set up a marquee with tea being poured to all attendees. After a lot of chattering and discussions about various parts of our tractors, we all fired up our engines for the off.

  The other end of the first row  Where can you get one of those?

(Click on the pictures to enlarge them)

Now where did I put that?  Getting ready  No t'was a false alarm

Yes this time we're going   

Basil took the lead on an approximate 21 mile road run. There were 53 tractors in all and quite a convoy we made. Scattered between us was the odd car (who had to wait to be able to remove themselves) and about four 4x4's, which were driven by devout tractor enthusiasts who wished not to miss anything.

Basil leads the way

David Payne TVO MF 35  26  Graham Trevaskis Fordson Major

28  Steve Vicary 19xx Minniapolis Moline  Clive Ould Super Dexta

David Ould MF 135  John Trethewey MF 65  Peter & Di Lobb with their 19xx David Brown Cropmaster 250

About halfway we stopped at Paul Gluyas's Pencoose Farm, Stithians where more tea and hot cross buns had been laid on for the weary drivers and passengers (ah). After we had refuelled  we progressed onto the second part of our journey. More lovely scenery was to be viewed before we got back to Sunny Corner where more tea had been laid on along with pasties, scones and cakes.

Chris Vincent Zetor  35  36

37  38  39

Leon Vanstone Marshall Mini  41  42

Everybody had more discussions about the run, our three minor casualties (diesel blockages in tractors, not people) and the lovely food spread. The raffle was drawn at this point by our Publicity  Officer Tracey "what a voice" Hutchings, whose son, Ashley Richards had helped organise the road run as part of his GCSE Coursework.

Geoff Buscombe 19xx Case  Bernard Lobb 19xx Chamberlain Super 70  Morley Beard 19xx Fordson Power Major

Douglas Trewern 19xx Fordson Major  David Houghton on his 1961 Fordson Super Major  Michael Hutchings with his 1953 Td 20 Fergy

Tommy Hutchings with his 1960 Fordson Dexta  50  51

Ashley gave thanks to Basil and Ann Coads for their part in organising the run and hosting the event. He also thanked all the drivers for turning up at which point they all joined in clapping.

John Ferkin TEF 20 diesel  Chris Perryman Fordson Major  Charles Ferkin Fordson Super Major

55  56  57

58  John Knuckey 19xx Ford 3000  Edward Kempe 1968 Nuffield 465 with trailer built by J S Penrose

There is still more sponsorship money to be collected and more donations to be handed in. When a final figure is reached we will inform you all through the CTC Newsletter and here on the website.

John Green MM  63  Geoff Buscombe Thames Trader

  a27  Chris Vincent Unimog

a29  a30  a31

a32  a35  a36

a38  a39  a43

a45  a46  a51

Thank you once again to all who drove a tractor, poured out tea, donated any money or just came along.
I am sure the Penrice Hospital will be delighted.

Tracey Hutchings
CTC Publicity Officer


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