Two members of the Blue Force tractor club have completed a 5,000-mile, 51-day Coastline Challenge, not previously attempted on tractors. Marking 100 years of blue tractor production in 2017, the journey started from the Basildon factory on April 13.
Blue Force chairman Phil Gibson, and club treasurer Peter Plehov, drove two new T6 tractors a route around the coast of mainland UK & Ireland. Stopping at several points on route including Bournemouth, Galway and Edinburgh, each tractor towed a shepherd’s hut – one for sleeping accommodation and the other for fuel, oil and supplies.
Funded mainly by donations from Blue Force club members and sponsors, New Holland dealer Robertsons of Orkney paid the pair’s ferry crossings to the Orkney Islands. Other New Holland dealers along the 5,000-mile route hosted events to celebrate 100 years of blue tractors.
The Coastline Challenge is raising funds for two charities, Steps Conductive Education Centre in Loughborough, and Cancer Research UK, and Phil and Peter aim to raise £25,000 by the end of this year. They have raised nearly £13,000 so far.
For donations to Steps Care Centre: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/CoastlineTractorChallenge
