Tractor fan factory shock
A tractor fan drove his 44-year-old machine on a 700-mile pilgrimage from Germany to the factory where it was made - only to find it had been knocked down.
Wolfgang Mueller, 65, had dreamed for years of taking his red Massey Ferguson MF35 back to Coventry, reports the Daily Mirror.
Two weeks after retiring, the farmer left Stuttgart, chugging at less than 30mph towing a caravan through Luxembourg and France and catching a ferry at Calais.
He took country lanes and B-roads to Basildon, Essex, to look at New Holland tractor-makers, then to get a photo of his vehicle at London Bridge.
But when he reached the spot where Massey Ferguson had been based, he saw rows of houses called Bannerbrook Park.
Wolfgang said he plans to spend a week or so touring Britain.
He added: "I'll make my way home via Paris. I want to park my tractor in front of the Eiffel Tower."
We used to have a Massey Ferguson factory here in Doncaster that used to manufacture tractors and combined harvesters. Things could have been a lot worse for Wolfgang...he might have attempted to drive a harvester all the way here.
