21 March 2025
FRIDAY MORNING RADIO, Edition 461, 9.00 ~ Midday AEDT
The Massey-Ferguson tractor was a frequently-seen workhorse on farms around Tasmania, and interstate, from the early 1950s. I had relatives on rural properties in the Huon Valley, and all had “Fergie” tractors.
Today’s photograph is of a train-load of brand-new “Fergies” heading to the north of the State around 1953, presumably after being offloaded from a ship in Hobart.
The train is being hauled by two X Class diesel-electric locomotives, themselves near-new. The photo was taken in Claremont, then an outer suburb of Hobart, and the identity of the photographer is unknown
| TRACK | RELEASE YEAR | PLAY TIME | PREVIOUS PLAYS | LAST PLAYED | ISRC |
| Graham Toole – Hold On To What You’ve Got | 2025 | 09:05 | 1 | 7/3/2025 | |
| Matilda Gracie & Sarah Rose – Health Hazard | 2025 | 09:10 | 1 | 21/3/2025 | |
| Barry Owen – Stand Up In The Crowd | 2025 | 09:13 | 1 | 23/2/2025 | |
| Charlie Landsborough – A Million Ways to Fall | 09:18 | 0 | |||
| Change of Key – Beyond That Smile | 2025 | 09:22 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Ann-Kristin Dørdal – Shape Up | 2018 | 09:27 | 3 | 14/8/2020 | |
| Melbourne Pops Orchestra – And I Love You So | 09:32 | 0 | |||
| Wayne Douglas – Hey Dad | 2025 | 09:36 | 1 | 16/2/2025 | |
| By Request Today: Lee Kernaghan – Three Chain Road | 09:40 | 0 | |||
| Ben Walker – In The Sunshine | 2025 | 09:47 | 2 | 14/3/2025 | AUE1Q 2100014 |
| Backtrack: Josh Turner – Folsom Prison Blues | 2018 | 09:51 | 1 | 9/11/2018 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Four Seasons – Bye Bye Baby | 1965 | 09:55 | 0 | ||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Beatles – Rock And Roll Music | 1965 | 09:58 | 10 | 25/11/2022 | |
| Richard Porteous – Sometimes | 2025 | 10:05 | 0 | QZDA8 2501574 | |
| By Request Today: Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend | 10:11 | 12 | 27/12/2024 | ||
| Jeff Orson – Missing You Soon | 2025 | 10:14 | 2 | 16/3/2025 | QT3TB-2425080 |
| Jamcase – Flipped Outta Bed | 2025 | 10:19 | 1 | 7/3/2025 | |
| They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore: Frankie Lane & Jimmy Boyd – Tell Me A Story | 1953 | 10:24 | 6 | 24/11/2023 | |
| Backtrack: David Hammerschlag – Troop Train | 2025 | 10:29 | 1 | 9/3/2025 | QZDA8 2572986 |
| Eric Jupp – Do You Know The Way To San Jose | 10:33 | 0 | |||
| Carol Chaney – Everything’s A Waltz | 2025 | 10:36 | 0 | ||
| Michael Farrell – Streets of Laredo | 2025 | 10:41 | 0 | ||
| Peggy Gilchrist – Under Burdekin Skies | 2025 | 10:45 | 0 | ||
| Klaasje Menzen – We Hold Our Head Up High | 2025 | 10:50 | 0 | ||
| Backtrack: Lene Lie – Boots and Faded Jeans | 2021 | 10:54 | 4 | 21/3/2021 | |
| Michael Meeking – Time to Make Up Your Mind | 2025 | 11:05 | 0 | AUKNA 2500001 | |
| August Lane – Constantly Raining | 2025 | 11:10 | 0 | QZWFN 2449588 | |
| Backtrack: Trevor Loughrey – Another Broken Heart | 2018 | 11:13 | 2 | 9/11/2018 | |
| Lonneke & Michl – Schmetterlinge | 2025 | 11:18 | 0 | ||
| Johnny Gibbs & His Orchestra with Ken Barrie – Thanks For The Memory | 11:24 | 2 | 16/10/2016 | ||
| Robin Wilson – A House Is Not A Home | 11:27 | 0 | |||
| Peter Salata – Little Old Fergie Tractor | 2025 | 11:31 | 2 | 16/3/2025 | |
| Trinidad Steel Drum Band – One Love | 11:37 | 0 | |||
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Sounds Orchestral – Cast Your Fate To The Wind | 1965 | 11:42 | 9 | 18/4/2021 | |
| 60 Year Diamond Classic – Charting on this day 1965 Al Martino – Jealous Heart | 1965 | 11:45 | 5 | 19/3/2021 | |
| Gail Barnard – Storms | 2025 | 11:50 | 0 | USCGJ 2534605 | |
| Vernon Huskey – White Silver Sands | 2025 | 11:53 | 0 | QZYSP 2500012 |
21 MARCH IN HISTORY:
ON THIS DAY
1931 Australia’s first civil airline disaster occurred, when the Southern Cloud, one of 5 triple-engine Avro 618 aircraft which flew daily services for Australian National Airways, vanished after departing Sydney for Melbourne with six passengers and two crew. Despite an 18-day search involving over 20 aircraft, no trace of the missing plane or it’s occupants was found.
Although the Southern Cloud’s fate remained a mystery, a Committee of Inquiry recommended that all passenger carrying aircraft should be fitted with two-way radios, and that ground stations should be established to monitor the progress of aircraft to their destinations.
Twenty seven years later, on 26 October 1958, a worker on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Project accidentally discovered the aircraft’s wreckage in mountainous terrain, 25 kilometres east of the direct Sydney-Melbourne route.
1957 The first Holden station wagon, based on the FE series sedans, went on sale
1962 Sandy Bay, Hobart – A swarm of European wasps held up work on a new road for two days, after a nest was disturbed by a bulldozer driver.
1968 Derwent Valley, Tasmania – A car narrowly escaped being buried in one of five landslides which occurred on the Lyell Highway between Granton and New Norfolk.
Other cars were trapped between landslides and the occupants had to wait until the road had been cleared. Meanwhile, Dromedary Road was also temporarily cut by flood waters.