Interest has grown in classic tractors and I think that it's because most people have a fondness for things they remember from when they were growing up -whether that be people, places or machines. That fondness has a name, of course - nostalgia. I am a bit nostalgic myself this month, a feeling induced in no small measure by the sale at auction of a tractor I knew well when I was growing up. The farm nearest to my parent's house ran a large fleet of Leyland tractors but by the beginning of the 1980s these were gradually giving way to the white machines built by Lamborghini.
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