The Ayrshire Vintage Tractor & Machinery Club’s 30th rally is to take place at Craig Wilson Ltd, Whitefordhill Agri-Centre, Ayr KA6 5JW (on A70 next to the Livestock Auction Market) on Sunday, 22 July, 2012.

Following the Club’s record-breaking road run on Sunday 15 April, when 107 tractors took part and raised £800 for charity, all exhibitors are welcome to enter this event, (avtmcnews@gmail. com), which is set to be an even bigger success.

The Club’s Harvest Road Run will be held on 19 August, 2012, provisionally leaving from the Dalry area in the north of Ayrshire.

After the successful championships in Somerset last October, the 2012 event moves to where it was held in 1976, even in the very same fields!

This will be courtesy of JF and BM Gray at Sheepwash Farm, Whittington, near Litchfield, Staffordshire on 13-14 October. The event was very wet in 1976, so let’s hope history will not repeat itself.

It has also been announced that the 2013 European Vintage Ploughing Champs will take place at Market Warsop, near Mansfield, Notts on 7-8 September, thanks to John Townroe. Further information from Brian Curties, tel: 01246 823407, or Mike Watkins, tel: 01709 790046.

CAPTION: Mike Watkins is one of the organisers of the 2013 European Vintage Ploughing Championships.