Thousands attend Shropshire Vintage Show in Shrewsbury

Every year, the two day vehicle extravaganza, which has its roots in the farming community, celebrates a featured tractor and this year it was the turn of British make Ford & Fordson.

The show is organised by the Mid Shropshire Vintage Club and took place across the weekend at the Greenhous West Mid Showground.

Fordson was a brand name of tractors and trucks used on a range of mass-produced general-purpose tractors manufactured by Henry Ford & Son from 1917 to 1920.

There were about 50 Ford & Fordson tractors on display, together with about 100 tractors of other makes.

Roy Edwards, one of the show's organisers, brought along two of his own tractors, including a David Brown winch tractor built in 1943.

The 74-year-old semi-retired farmer, of Windmill Farm, Halfway House, said: "It has gone really well. There were 50 tractors in the Ford & Fordson section.

"The earliest was from 1929 and it went right up to the brand new tractors.

"They have been one of the most popular makes. We do a different make every year.

"They have changed in comfort and design. You used to have to start them with a starting handle and now it's done with the push of a button.

"There's been a few thousand people here on both days.

"They come from all over. Some travel from over 100 miles away. We have been quite pleased with the weather.

"There's a lot of like-minded people who come here and a lot of families.

"Parents come and show their kids what farming used to be like in the old days."

As well as dozens of the historic tractors being on display from collectors all over the UK – the event also featured vintage cars, military machinery, motorbikes, lorries, steam engines, camper vans and even shire horses and the Pony Club.

There was also an auction of vintage machinery and tools by H J Pugh & Sons.