Black and white photograph entitled Land Army Girls reap Britain's Golden Harvest

P FW PH2/W48/2

Undated [1939-1945]

Women's Land Army (Great Britain), Farmers Weekly, Florence Sewing Machine Company

Womens Land Army girls with Fordson tractor-drawn binder, harvesting corn during wartime

1 photograph

type: PRINT, dimensions: 25.6 x 21 cm

English

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Women's Land Army- Great Britain- History, War agriculture, wartime, Women in agriculture, Tractors, Fordson tractors, Reapers (Machines), reapers & binders, Graphic Materials

<DIV STYLE="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><P><SPAN><SPAN>9. &lt;B&gt;Womens Land Army Girls and tractor drawn binder, 1940s &lt;/B&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Fordson tractor in this photograph is equipped with spade lug wheels to give it extra grip for pulling the binder and driving its mechanisms. One person was required to sit on a special seat at the back of the binder to control the cutting and binding operations with levers. In this case, the tractor has completed cutting the field and the Land Girl is perched on the front of the binder, perhaps just for the purposes of the photograph.&lt;P&gt;P FW PH2/W48/2</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>

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RHC copy neg. NMC 35/26219