Friends of ours started farming around the same time our family was allocated a ‘War Service Land Settlement Scheme’ farm back in 1949. Machinery, and especially tractors were hard to come by and the choice was limited. Through the scheme, we were lucky to get a McCormick Deering WD9, which was a superb machine in its day. Our friends managed to get a KL Bulldog, a copy of the Lanz.

Money was pretty short and savings were taken where they could be found, an