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The all-time winner of that accolade must surely be the Caterpillar 60 at the 1930 Tractor Trial held near Wantage, Oxfordshire (Berkshire as then was).
According to its rooky chief organizer from Oxford University, SJ Wright, then aged 24, writing some 45 years later in the 'Power Farmer', "following our agreed protocol of 6hp/furrow, possibly somewhat naively I asked our contracted plough suppliers, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, for a 10 furrow plough suitable for the Caterpillar 60 and, without further comment, they sent along a 4f multitrack close-coupled behind a 6f hexatrack with which the "60" proceeded to plough in an acre every 20 minutes.."
Unfortunately, after all those years the old chap's memory may have been a bit faulty because the only surviving video which I can find clearly shows the Caterpillar 60 with two 5-furrow hexatracks.
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