tampers, rollers, tractors, loaders, tipper trucks and dumpers. Manufacturers represented include John Deare, Poclain, Ruston Bucyrus and many others. On the upper floor are over 3,000 models of construction

famous models used across the world and others are rare survivors. They include makes such as Ford, John Deere, Deering, Oliver, Fordson, International, Munktells, Takra and Deutz. The agricultural machinery

Leeds from the time that John Hirst founded the Leeds Mercury newspaper in 1718. The best known product of the city’s printing industry is the board game Monopoly developed by John Waddington from 1922. The [...] standard gauge steam locomotives, many of which were built in Leeds, and a display of the products of John Fowler (1826-64) pioneer of steam ploughing, whose works was in the city. Another section deals with

factories. The main displays show tractors, ploughs and combine harvesters from makers such as Zetor, John Deer, Svoboda and Wichterle and Kovářík. There are also two small aircraft. Machines are shown from

an appointment at least one day before. The museum is in an old court-house near the church of St John. It shows samples of minerals, information about the landscape, copper miner’s tools, ingots and artefacts

John Marshall (1765-1845) was the pioneer of the flax industry in the Industrial Revolution period, and Temple Mill in Leeds is his most impressive memorial. After entering his father’s modest linen business [...] in Leeds he acquired a taste for entrepreneurship, developing flax spinning technology patented by John Kendrew and Thomas Porthouse, at first at a small mill at Adel, north of Leeds, and then at a new