This is one project which really was restored from a pile of bits, as Peter Simpson explains... Over the past few months, CVC has featured a few recent projects completed by Norfolk-based duo Neal and Nigel Davis. As we’ve seen, the Davis brothers have a definite tendency to take on stuff that’s a bit unusual or a bit ambitious. Or, as we saw back in December with Neal’s Allen-Grove H2564 self-propelled mobile crane, extremely unusual AND extremely ambitious!
Anyway, to round up this short series – for now, anyway – we come to Nigel’s
1948 Fordson 7V. This was acquired as, quite literally, a pile of bits. It has, though, been finished to the standard seen here in not much more than a year, which is impressive, especially considering that…