IPSWICH may be the 'tractor boys' of the football league but Coventry City now have a machine of their own to be proud of.
The club has taken delivery of a new Korean-built Kioti DK50C after striking a deal with an Upton firm.
The firm's owner Graham Askew visited the Highfield Road ground to hand over the keys to chairman Mike McGinnty.
Mr Askew described the deal, negotiated over the past 18 months in the face of stiff competition, as the most high-profile sale the company has yet made.
Askews (Town and Country Tractors) has been based in Upton for around 20 years, originally as agricultural dealers, before diversifying about ten years ago.
The company is one of around 35 dealers of Kioti tractors in the country and Mr Askew has now bought his unit at The Exchange, in Ryall, and hopes to expand his operation next year.
The company has achieved top dealer status for two years' running and Mr Askew has been invited on an all-expenses-paid trip to South Korea to see the operation for himself.
He said he hopes to go later this year, or early next, and is looking forward to seeing the factory, where robots build 92 per cent of each vehicle.
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