An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of his recently purchases threshing machine on display and in operation at a traction engine rally taking place at Harewood House in West Yorkshire. The film begins with the threshing machine being transported from the previous owner’s farm in Lincolnshire to Harewood House and it being attached to the Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 also owned by the filmmaker. Ken’s sons Peter and John along with daughter Deborah also feature in the film...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of his recently purchases threshing machine on display and in operation at a traction engine rally taking place at Harewood House in West Yorkshire. The film begins with the threshing machine being transported from the previous owner’s farm in Lincolnshire to Harewood House and it being attached to the Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 also owned by the filmmaker. Ken’s sons Peter and John along with daughter Deborah also feature in the film helping work the threshing machine as well as one of the sons driving the traction engine. Title: Threshing at Harewood 1971 Title: But first – at Horbling Fen Lincolnshire On a farm a covered threshing machine has been loaded onto a flat-bed lorry. Three men look it over to make sure the machine is secure. The lorry departs the farm changing to it being unloaded in a field at Harewood House. Now attached to the Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 called ‘Deborah’ the threshing machines is towed slowly along a road and into another field. With a belt links the traction engine to the threshing machine it is filmed in operation. In another field a horse-drawn combine in operation watched by a small crowd. In the distance a horse-drawn plough followed by men loading wheat or another cereal crop from a large stack into a threshing machine while the horse-drawn combine continues to cut and bundle its crop. Three men work to unload bundles of wheat or other cereal from the back of a lorry creating a large stack. Writing on the door of the lorry delivering the wheat reads ‘Herbert Bradley & Sons’ of Bolton Abbey'. An older man watches over a young boy, possibly Peter Ellwood, at the controls of the Burrell traction engine as it is driven across a show field, past other traction engines on display. A procession of traction engines steam around a showground watched by crowds behind a rope fence. Included in the procession the Burrell engine ‘Deborah’ with Deborah, Peter and John Ellwood sitting at the rear. Two steam wagons and a miniature steam traction engine also form part of the procession. Afterwards all the engines are parked in a line. The Burrell engine is attached to the threshing machine and the first loads of wheat or other cereal crop are put onto the conveyor belt by Peter, John and another man. Deborah stands at the rear beside the sacks that will collect the grain. Various views of both the traction engine and threshing machine in operation, the stems come along a second conveyor and drops onto the ground helped by an older man with a pitchfork. A small crowd gathers around watching the machines in operation. Men look over full sacks of grain while Peter and John jump around and play in the stack of straw. Standing atop the thresher two men sweep up the last of the wheat making sure it all goes into the machine. End title: The end