A successful author and journalist specialising in tractors and machinery, Stuart Gibbard comes from a farming background near Spalding in Lincolnshire. He has developed his interest in collecting early tractor literature into a mail-order business which is run by his wife Sue, and he is also one of the organisers of the annual Spalding model-tractor and literature show.
Devoting much of his time to historical research, Stuart has talked to many of the men who played their part in creating the machines portrayed in his books. This first-hand knowledge has enabled him to give a fascinating insight into the world of agricultural engineering and tractor development, and his publications include unrivalled histories of Ferguson and Ford.

Books
Change on the Land: a hundred years of mechanised farming, 1997
County: a pictorial review, 1997
Ford Tractor Conversions: the story of County, Doe, Matbro and Bray, 1995
Roadless: the Story of Roadless Traction from Tracks to Tractors, 1996
The David Brown Tractor Story Part One, 2003
The Doe Tractor Story, 2001
The Ferguson Tractor Story, 2000
The Ford Tractor Story Part One: Dearborn to Dagenham 1917-1964, 1998
The Ford Tractor Story Part Two: 1964-1999, Basildon to New Holland, 1999
Tractors at Work: a pictorial review 1904-94, 1994
Tractors at Work: a pictorial review Volume Two, 1995

Videos/DVDs
County Tractors, 1997
Roadless Tractors, 1996
Ferguson on the Farm Part 1,2001
Ferguson on the Farm Part 2, 2002
Ferguson on the Farm Part 3 , 2004
Ferguson Tractors, 1998
Giants of the Field, 2003
County Tractors Working Days with Ford Conversions, 2004
Fordson Farming, 2006
International at Doncaster: British production 1949-75, 2008