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Tractors on display

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Tractors on display

Potential customers inspect tractors displayed by local firm Andrews & Beaven at the annual Christchurch show, probably in the 1920s. Such displays at agricultural and pastoral shows and field days helped inform and persuade farmers about the benefits of farm machines.

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James Watson, Farm mechanisation – Reasons for mechanisation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18346/tractors-on-display (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by James Watson, published 1 March 2009.