John Gay / Historic England / Mary Evans Picture No 10408943
The Royal Show 1957
A man takes a photograph of a young woman sat on a Track-Marshall tractor at the Royal Show, Norwich
John Gay / Historic England / Mary Evans Picture No 10408943
The Royal Show 1957
A man takes a photograph of a young woman sat on a Track-Marshall tractor at the Royal Show, Norwich
Mary Evans/Robert Hunt Collection Picture No 10282884
Land Girls WWII
Land Girl, Lin Gapp, a former secretary in a cosmetics laboratory, is
protected by a ground sheet from rain as she drives a tractor on a farm
during World War II
Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans Picture No 10698902
Farmers wife tractor ploughing 1917
Woman ploughing a parafin 16 h.p tractor, specially built for war time
agriculture, capability of ploughing five archers a day.
Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans Picture No 10645141
Land girls in training 1939
Ploughing practice, her first solo trip on a tractor, determined to make
her first furrow straight. If she can already drive a car she would
not find it difficult to , but starting the engine is another matter.
Mary Evans/Robert Hunt Collection Picture No 10282890
Land Girl working with a tractor on a farm during World War II
Mary Evans/Robert Hunt Collection Picture No 10282852
Land Girl Vera Clarke learns how to drive a tractor with passengers Lin
Gapp and an instructor during World War II. Vera was an orchestra leader
in Lyons Corner House and Lin was a secretary in a cosmetics
laboratory.
Mary Evans/Robert Hunt Collection Picture No 10282840
A Land Girl driving a tractor on a farm during World War II
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