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I had a great day at the Tractor World show today, the weather held fair. There were hoards of people there. The auction started at 10.30am and looked be likley to keep going until at least 5.00 pm. Mike and I managed to meet up, it was really great to meet a board member in person at last. We wandered through auction lines inspecting the Fordson New Majors, I learnt a lot from Mike on the little details to look out for when judging whether a tractor is genuine or not. As it turned out most of the Majors were ASPs to some degree.

I took a few pickies, Mike has also taken some so there should be a second showing later.

County Sea Horse(I think a similar machine croseed the English channel to France in the 60's)

Roadless All Track 1943


Avelling and Barford Roller 1944(based on Fordson N)

Bristol 22 Vineyard crawler

1939 Farmall F14(absolubtely immaculate, not really my scene but you can't help but be impressed by the standard of work)


Ferguson Brown Model A (Star billing in the auction, I didn't catch what it made but I would guess £10,000-£12,000

1954 Lanz Alldog


I hope that you enjoyed the pickies.

Chris,
Many thanks for the photos - very nice. I didn't go in the end, a bit too far but delighted you and Mike had a good day.
Ben

Nice pictures, Chris. I really like the one of the County Seahorse. I have a little bit of info about them in my Owners Manual. Quite an interesting idea.
The F-14 looks pretty nice, too. I hate to admit it, but I have an F-20 in my back yard.
They're all interesting pics. Thanks for posting them.

Great pictures Chris,

It is great to see that there was a good selection of the early model F, N and E27Ns at the show too. The things they turned those early tractors into is absolutely amazing, not to forget the amazing things County did with the New Major. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Regards, Frank.

Thanks Chris,

Great pictures.
Man I would love to have one of those Alldog type tractors. Especially the one that Eicher made.

Your right about the ASP's. Most of the Majors now day’s have parts from other tractors. Mine has a 3 point hitch from a stranger.
Yesterday I visit a guy to buy a safety frame and a cultivator. He has the same model Major as I have. The strange thing was there was no plate with engine number on the fire wall and no number in the engine stamped. Makes me wondering. But it seems it was in originally outfit.

I like the tractors that has been painted shiny but the Farmall is a bit overdone I think. And a Bristol in his own working outfit is also great.

Well folks, as you already know, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Chris at the show.
The weather was good and the show was 'heaving' with the crowds attending on Saturday.
To the right of the showground was the Auction area.
Lots of tractors, from complete 'basket cases' to 'cosmetically restored' examples. I say cosmetically because they looked really good, until you started to look closely. They had clearly been prepared with a view of getting as high a price as possible, with the least work.
As far as implements and spares go, there were a larger than normal collection of ploughs, a large assortment of other items, but how anyone can expect to 'sell' some of the 'remains' offered always beats me.

To the left of the showground are the 'halls'. As ever, the first large hall is set aside for the display of club stands, the 'how to prepare for paint' display sponsored by 'Old 20' and the boys from Lackham and Bicton colleges doing tractor repair and re-build demonstrations sponsored by Vapourmatic.
The 4 large remaining halls (conjoined) have the first 2 given over to tools, parts books and clothing, the remaining 2 contain the static displays of tractors, split into sections for the different marques.

Thankfully, Chris took some good pictures of the more interesting items on display.
I remembered Ricks request to give an idea of 'the show'.
Due to the heavy crowds, I waited until things started to 'die down' so there was a chance of seeing something more than people. I managed to get a couple of pictures of the Auction area, although this was still going on after 5 pm, which was closing time, so I have no idea when it finally finished.

For the display halls, I set out to take a picture of each of the 4 quarters. It was still quite busy and unfortunately, someone knocked my camera 'clean out of my hands'. The result?
There are 6 pictures following, the sixth one only serves to show the result of a camera hitting a concrete floor. Operation sadly aborted and I now need a new camera

Front View of Auction area at 3 pm


Rear View of Auction area at 3 pm


View 1 of Club Display Hall


View of part of NWVTEC stand (our club)


At least you get an idea of the layout of 1 quarter of 1 hall


Results of a digital camera hitting concrete

No, it's not me moving, the multiple images are related to something that now 'rattles' inside when I shake it.

Regards,
Mike

Mike,

I'm so grateful to see your Pics but saddened by the fate of your camera!
I have a much better idea of the show now from your pics and description and can only say with envy, "I doubt if there is anything like it here in Aust." Distances and Population don't afford it sadly. Having demos of Paint Prep and Repair workshops would be fantastic to see.
It would have been nice to see some of the "Parts Stands" but there is always next year, eh?
I bought a Digital Camera about 5 or 6 years ago. It was a Minolta 3.3 Mp. It was priced at $1750 at a Duty Free shop in Aust. I bought it off ebay in USA $600 (Aussie Dollars) and the guy sent me the copy of the invoice where he'd bought a bunch of cameras at a liquidation sale. He'd paid something like $800 for my camera, but had no qualms about the sale. The point being that now that camera is virtually worthless by obsolescence! My wife and I each bought 8Mp kodaks for $130 each and I wouldn't bother buying batteries for the Minolta now! (Thinking about it, I might give it to a young 7 year old cousin to learn on). We have a couple of other (once) expensive conventional cameras just sitting around that I doubt will ever be used again!
When I eventually move to Ontario, maybe I'll experience some Old Tractor shows there. (I might be going over for a month visit soon).

Thanks again Mike.

Chris,
Your shots are exceptional. I've been over them many a time and kept asking myself which was I drawn to look at the most. It was a toss-up between the Roadless All Track 1943 and the Lanz Alldog. The roadless because it looks like a working machine (but why in the hell did they paint those wheels like that???? ) Hopefully they don't intend painting the whole machine and correct the front wheels. Looking at the Alldog, arouses the inventiveness in me .... I'd like to build something like that. Like Henk, I can't stand that Farmall's Paint job!
I was proud of myself to instantly recognise the Aveling Barford Badge on the front before seeing your caption as to it's manufacture.
Thanks Chris

Rick

Rick and Henk,
I'm probably the only one on this BB, but I like shiny old tractors. I think that those old tractors worked hard all their life and now that they're retired, they deserve to look better than they did when they were new. OK, now let's hear from everyone who disagrees

I just noticed your new signature line, Rick. Maybe it will be a petrol Dexta, there seems to be a few of those in Canada.

Mike / Chris,
Many thanks for the pics. Sorry about the camera. I dropped my Olympus on the concrete last month - fortunately it still works fine.
Any thoughts on Tractor prices in the auctions or prices generally? Buyer's or seller's market?
Thanks,
Ben

Hello Henk,

Iff you want I know someone who has a Eigher (alldog) and it is for sale ....iff you want to know the price just send a mail

JC

I like the new made ones aswell but for myself I am still looking for a good off farm condition major (ca 4000 hrs) there is a farmer here in the neighbourhood who has a ford 2000 from 1965 with 2500 original hrs on the clock and dealer serverd (but not for sale)

Thanks for the offer Frans, but money and a place to put it is the problem. But it's alway's nice to have some dreams left.

Hello Henk,


Thats no problem if the money tractor (train)
arrives you can still ask, the farmer has I think 30 old sleeping beautys in his shed and he only sells one to persons he knows, he likes Nuffys (there is a rare 4x4) and Fiat for him self.

I will try to make a picture in his shed but I dont know iff he wants that

I'm glad everyone enjoyed the photos (but was saddened to hear of Mike's camera mishap).

The results of the auction have now been posted. The Ferguson Brown made £12800 and the Avelling and Barford roller made just £2400. The other highlight was an International B275 with just 122 hours from new that made £11600, I missed this tractor, I'm not sure where it was hiding!

Mike Kuscher wrote:...'how to prepare for paint' display sponsored by 'Old 20' and the boys from Lackham and Bicton colleges doing tractor repair and re-build demonstrations sponsored by Vapourmatic. ....

Sorry I missed that too - I'll be doing a lot of painting! Unfortunately the Tractor World web page didn't give much info on the programme or I might have made more effort to get there.

Is anyone aware of similar Painting displays coming up elsewhere in the near future?

All the best,
Ben

Beautiful clear pictures Chris, what type of camera do you use?

Mervyn

Would like to see some pictures of it Frans.

Hi Mervyn - I used a Nikon Coolpix 3200 that's about 6 years old. It's a bit chunky by modern standards but has good picture quality. I won't bother getting another as long this keeps going.

Great pictures guys, I liked them all.

I'm like Henk, I'd like to see his tractors in the barn.

JC, I liked the old shiny tractor too, I would like to take it for a spin in a parade here in Ky.