In issue #35, two pictures on page 39 show a person sitting on a GL200 header, being operated by Ken Fadyen. I have a query regarding the seat that the header operator appears to be sitting on. My father owned one of the earliest models of these machines and it was not fitted with an operator’s seat. The machines comb was raised and lowered by an inbuilt hydraulic system, this being controlled by a rod from the tractor’s seat.  The picture to the left of the page shows this rod, but none seems to appear in the picture on the right.

 In the genuine McCormick Deering GL200 power drive header harvester ‘