Description

To Market The New Tractor Game is typical roll and move board game about farming and agriculture made at Harborne, England by Chad Valley Games in approximately 1950s. The game involves various farming related obstacles and successes, mainly based around farming machinery. So for example successes include "You now have your new tractor - succeed as usual", "A post hole digger to re-fence your field - go forward", "Ploughing demonstration - go forward", "Good hammer milled feed keeps up milk yield - transport box moves churns easily - go forward". Obstacles include "Tractor oil should have been changed - go back", "Your field is flooded - go back", "Tractor neglected - go back" etc.
The first player to finish exactly on 200 has arrived at the market and is the winner.

The graphics on game board are lovely. The course goes through typical English landscape starting at an old farm house, and then through country lanes, ploughed fields, past the „Ferguson School of Farm Mechanisation“ (Massey Ferguson farm machinery), past streams, bridges, churches, farmyards, hay bales, and various farm vehicles to a market in a little town at the end. The board provides an image of a lost, bygone England.