Coast-to-coast vintage tractor challenge completed

A coast-to-coast tractor challenge has raised more than £3,000 for Yorkshire's Brain Tumour Charity.

Averaging 16-20mph, four vintage tractors have completed a journey from Flamborough to Blackpool and back over three days, starting on Friday.

The Dexta's On the Run team, which raised money two years ago with a John O'Groats to Land's End tractor run, started out as a father and sons endeavour, but has been joined by two retirees and two extra tractors on this challenge.

Callum Morley, who was driving the support car, said: "We've had people cheering along the way, cars beeping their horns – it's been well received."

Brian Morley, Callum's father, is a brick layer and brother Tom is a landscaper, from Driffield.

They bought their 1960 Fordson Dexta and Super Dexta tractors to carry out jobs at home.

The trio decided to use them for a greater good when they took on their first 900-mile (1,448km) challenge from the top to the tail of the country in 2024.

On their coast-to-coast challenge, they have been joined by two other tractor enthusiasts - Leslie Colwill, with her Massey Ferguson 135 tractor, and Phil Bowser, on his International 276.

The vehicles, which were all manufactured during the sixties, were used on smaller farms.

"You'd be working your fields over, chatting grain, bits of straw, all bits like that, and to help out with animal work, taking waste away," Callum said.

"So, a lot better than a shovel when they were invented, they were utilized absolutely everywhere."

The tractors are now popular restoration projects.

The four tractors set off from Flamborough Lighthouse on Friday and the trip clocked up almost 300 miles (482km).

They are still taking donations for their chosen charity via their JustGiving page.

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