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In July we were in Birmingham at the Livestock event, where we showcased How to Become a First-Generation Farmer by John Terry. Our travels are not complete yet as we still have the Spalding Model Tractor Show in October and Newark Vintage Tractor Show in November with our special show discounts. We really enjoy meeting our customers and authors and hope to see you soon at one of the shows. In the meantime enjoy browsing your new catalogue Patrick Dyer Stuart Gibbard Author - At Work Series Author - The David Brown Tractor Story Robert Hackford Author - Lorries of Arabia New Products THE PET DETECTIVES SERIES Are Rabbits the Right Pet for You: Can you Find the Facts? About the Author Are rabbits the right pet for you? You can find out by learning the Having featured on BBC’s Vets in facts and taking on detective assignments to investigate what rabbits Practice for seven years, TV vet and need and whether you are ready to look after them. author Emma Milne is heavily involved £9.95 | Paperback | 110 Pages | 9781910455050 | 1207 in animal welfare campaigning. In- between campaigning and writing books, Emma spends her days looking ARE GUINEA PIGS THE RIGHT PET FOR YOU: CAN after her two lovely daughters. YOU FIND THE FACTS? DUE OUT JANUARY 2016 GENERAL INTEREST OUT IN OUT IN OCTOBER NOVEMBER OUT IN NOVEMBER Sparks from the Smiddy: The The Farming Joke Book: A Life of a World Champion Farrier Collection of Agricultural Jokes, Aston Martin Engine David Wilson Amusing Stories and Anecdotes Development: 1984-2000 This book tells the story of champion John Terry farrier, David Wilson and sheds light Arthur Wilson This pocket sized book will provide on previously unreported aspects you with hours of enjoyment and is This book gives a unique detailed of working and shoeing horses. inside look into the Aston Martin the perfect tool for the farmer wanting factory, from 1984 – 2000. £12.95 to entertain friends and family. Paperback | 192 Pages £24.95 £7.95 9781910456057 Paperback | 200 Pages Hardback | 160 Pages 691B 9781910456088 9781910456057 698B 695B Old Pond Publishing / www.oldpond.com 3 NEW PRODUCTS FARMING AND MACHINERY Grassmen Wilson Farming Part 4 Moover The fourth and final disc in this DVD A Year Farming with Deere Part 1 A Year Farming with Deere Part 2 series with the family run business Chris Lockwood Chris Lockwood Wilson Farming follows the contracting Part one covers the period January to Part two continues the story from crews as their harvest season draws May with Reed Agriculture, a modern June to December, showing the to a close. The end of grass work sees contract farming operation from North harvesting of various crops and the the team stretched once again with Suffolk covering 3000 acres using autumn-establishment workload haylage needing to be baled as the predominantly John Deere Machinery ready for the following year. choppers get moving in wholecrop. £17.95 £17.95 £18.00 100 minutes | 2015 110 minutes | 2015 132 minutes | 2015 447D 448D 445D OUT IN OUT IN OUT IN SEPTEMBER DECEMBER NOVEMBER The Farming Year Europe: The Farming Year Europe: The Pea Files Part 2 Farm Machinery through Farm Machinery through the Tractor Barn Productions the Seasons, Part 1 Spring Seasons, Part 2 Summer The story of the FMC self-propelled Tractor Barn Productions Tractor Barn Productions pea harvester from the H-2 to the 679 – the world’s first pod picking self- This new series of programmes shows The Farming Year will transport you propelled pea viner. Both rare archive farm machinery at work through into a familiar but also surprising and contemporary footage make this the seasons in Europe. Part one world where modern tractors mingle a unique programme revealing the focuses on the busy Spring period. with as-new classics. Part Two story of the six wheeled pea viner. focuses on the summer months. £16.95 £16.95 120 minutes £16.95 120 minutes 453D 120 minutes 446D 454D 4 Old Pond Publishing / www.oldpond.com NEW PRODUCTS Living Off the Land - Country David Brown Tractors Box Set Archive Films from David People 1850-1950 Duke Brown Tractors Frances Mountford This is the complete David Brown Second Sight Productions Frances Mountford’s unique collection Tractors Film History, bringing together Second Sight Productions present six of rare photographs combined with all three volumes of producer David original David Brown films, produced her imaginative pen and watercolour Wood's definitive documentary series. in their heyday, that demonstrate illustrations have captured the £24.99 the company’s total commitment wonderful country characters. 3 discs, 181 mins to quality and dependability. £12.50 968S £16.99 Hardback, 160 pages 110 minutes 2013 5060058001065 9781906122584 401D P479998 Working with the Red Giants The MF Archive Special Land of our Fathers Second Sight Production – Ferguson TE20 Second Sight Production Massey Ferguson changed the agricultural Second Sight Production This film visits the award winning landscape for ever, not only in this In this fourth MFA Special Edition environmental farming cousins Brian country but all over the world. We’re using genuine archive films, we take and Patrick Barker who are on a mission taking this opportunity to celebrate a look at the impact Harry Ferguson’s to produce excellent quality, high those fifty years by paying tribute to tractors and implements made to yielding crops for a variety of markets. a champion of the farming world. the mechanisation of the farm. £16.99 £16.99 £16.99 100 minutes 90 minutes 120 minutes 2013 2013 2014 5060058000884 5060058001140 5060058001157 432D 400D 399D Old Pond Publishing / www.oldpond.com 5 NEW PRODUCTS TRUCKING OUT IN NOVEMBER ERF B, C, CP and E-series Patrick Dyer This book takes you on a journey with Trucks in the 1980s: The ERF, England’s last independent truck Photos of David Wakefield manufacturer, between the years 1975 Nick Ireland and 1993 with the B, C, CP and E-series trucks that the Sandbach based company This book presents some of the thousands produced in the face of overwhelming of truck photos David Wakefield took competition from foreign manufacturers. during the 1980s. Characterised by Beyond the Bosphorus: minimal text, it portrays the historical £19.95 British Drivers on the Hardback | 144 Pages value of truck manufacturers and Middle East Routes haulage companies of the time. 9781910456101 Dave Bowers 692B £19.95 Hardback | 176 Pages | 2015 This book tells the amazing stories 9781910456040 of people driving to Middle-East 689B destinations, battling against all the odds to deliver their loads. £29.95 Hardback | 248 Pages | 2015 9781910456026 688B OUT IN OUT IN SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER Where's Sharawrah? A Fifty Shades of Tarmac: Project D. Ford D Series Trucks Truck Driver’s Adventure Adventures with a Mack Duke across the Arabian Desert R600 in 1970s Europe In 1965 a new truck rolled off the Gordon Pearce Andy MacLean production line at Ford. It was a truck designed to meet the demands This is the true story of Gordon Pearce, This book tells the fictional story of drivers and the industry, a truck an English truck driver determined to get of how a naïve young British truck built and tested to withstand the the job done. With the help of Bedouins driver obtains his first job driving a harshest treatment. This was the D he crossed 300 km of unpredictable Mack on the continent of Europe. desert in the height of summer 1978. Series, a vehicle which launched a £14.95 quiet revolution in haulage design £14.95 Paperback | 336 Pages Paperback | 152 Pages £16.99 9781910456033 64 minutes 9781910456002 693B 690B 439D 6 Old Pond Publishing / www.oldpond.com NEW PRODUCTS Best of British Trucks Set Duke A nostalgic look at Britain's great commercial trucks. This comes with 4 DVD's covering different aspects of great British trucks. Extreme Trucks Sport Extreme Trucks, Big Rigs £14.99 Truck Special and Heavy Haulers 4 discs, 166 mins Duke Duke 349D In this DVD we examine the sport truck We've got big rigs from both sides of from all angles. We check out the big US the Atlantic, flat out at high speed V8 and V10 hot rods and heavy haulers; on the racetracks of Europe and desert and stadium track action and go crawling along axle deep in mud. testing with team drivers Dale White and £10.99 Brian Collins, then watch them race! 73 minutes £14.99 437D 73 minutes 438D Supertruck Review Truckin' Crazy Truckin' Crazy 2 1990 Duke Archive Duke Duke Duke Everybody, especially kids, thrills in Anyone who thinks that trucks are just This is the ultimate souvenir of the some way at the awesome sight of big workhorses grinding up and down our best race series in Western Europe for trucks.