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Product Description:The theme for the Tractor Display at
Hope Show this year is “The Potato”. Farmers
have been growing the potato as a staple of our diet for hundreds of years. At
this year’s Hope Show on august Bank
Holiday Monday, we want to draw attention to this product and hope to
demonstrate the machinery employed in the planting, cultivation and harvesting
of the crop. Think
of potatoes and your mind turns to potato crisps. That is why we are featuring
Pipers Crisps. This company has kindly donated to the Show samples of its
product to demonstrate the tasty potato in one of its forms. No doubt, in
another form, at the varied catering outlets at the Show, one will also find the
potato in its other guises, the jacketed and the fried potato. Pipers Crisps
are a good fit with the tractor section: the company has historical links to
the very first farm tractor used in Britain, The Ivel, invented and
manufactured at Biggleswade in Bedfordshire by Dan Albone, whose family are
still involved in the manufacture and sale of Pipers Crisps today. Caterpillars
too… One
thing you would not want to find in your potato is a caterpillar. However, you
will see at least two caterpillars at Hope
Show this year in the form of the Caterpillar D7 and the D8 belonging to Mr
Andrew Bettney of Tideswell. The D8, painted in the camouflage livery of the
American Army, has been a visitor to the Show for several years now and it is
coupled to a Le Tourneau scraper used to level ground in the Second World War
for runways and road accesses. The D7T3 is only slightly smaller than the D8
and is making its debut at Hope Show this year. These two Caterpillar Tractors
will be quite a sight in the Show ring when they parade at midday. Entries
are rolling in for the Tractor and Engine Section and there will be a varied
selection of machinery on display in both parts of the Section. So why not come
along and view all of these splendid machines, speak to their owners and learn
a little more of the history of mechanised agriculture in England. Hope
Show is on August 26th, Bank Holiday Monday and takes place in the Hope Valley
in the Peak District. | |||