Tour Scotland Video Massey Ferguson T135 Tractors Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally Strathmiglo Fife

Tour Scotland video of Massey Ferguson T135 tractors on visit to the Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally at Corston Mill, by Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland. One of the events at the Fife Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club Rally. Massey Ferguson was founded in 1847 in Newcastle, Ontario by Daniel Massey, as the Newcastle Foundry and Machine Manufactory. To begin with it made some of the world's first mechanical threshers, at first by assembling parts from the United States, but eventually designing and building its own equipment. Daniel's eldest son, Hart Massey, renamed the enterprise the Massey Manufacturing Co. and in 1879 moved it to Toronto, where it soon became one of the city's leading employers. The massive collection of factories, consisting of a 4.4 hectares, 11 acres, site with plant and head office at 915 King Street West, now part of Liberty Village, became one of the best known features of the city. Massey expanded further and began to sell its products internationally. Through extensive advertising campaigns it became one of the most well known brands in Canada. A labour shortage throughout the country also helped to make the firm's mechanized equipment very attractive.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph Hairpin Bend Rest And Be Thankful Road Scotland

Old travel Bog photograph of a vintage car on a hairpin bend at the Rest And Be Thankful road in Argyll, Scotland. A stone commemorates the completion of this military road built by General Wade in 1750. The section is so named as the climb out of Glen Croe is so long and steep at the end that it was traditional for travellers to rest at the top, and be thankful for having reached the highest point. The current road no longer keeps to the floor of Glen Croe but steadily climbs across the southern slopes of The Cobbler, on the north side of the Glen, to the highest point of the pass. The westward descent to Loch Fyne is through Glen Kinglas. At Cairndow the A815, the main road down the Cowal peninsula , south to Dunoon and finally Toward at the A815 roads end, both on the Firth of Clyde. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive Through Abernethy Perthshire To Whisky Distillery Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of a Winter morning road trip drive East on the A913 road through Abernethy in Perthshire, on visit to where the Lindores Abbey Whisky Distillery is located on Abbey Road in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. The earliest record of scotch whisky cited by the exchequer roll for 1494 is a commission from King James IV to Friar John Cor of Lindores Abbey to make about eight bols of malt or 580 kg of aquavitae. The abbey is now the location of Lindores Abbey distillery.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Sunny Winter Morning Drive From Rhynd To Bridge Of Earn Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Sunny Winter morning road trip drive to from Rhynd on ancestry visit to Bridge Of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland. Bridge of Earn is a small town in Perth and Kinross. Often referred to simply as The Brig, Scots word for bridge. The village grew up on the south bank of an important crossing of the River Earn, whose sandstone bridge existed from at least the early 14th century, when it is known to have been repaired by order of King Robert I of Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Sunny Winter Morning Drive To The Hamlet Of Rhynd Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of a Sunny and misty at times Winter morning road trip drive on ancestry visit to the hamlet of Rhynd in Perthshire, Scotland. Rhynd lies between the River Tay and Moncreiffe Hill, 4 miles south east of Perth. The Tudor Gothic parish church dating from 1842 replaced an earlier church whose ruins can be found at Easter Rhynd, near the confluence of the Earn and the Tay. The church is now a private home.

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