Bristol Vintage Sale Highlights

Saturday 19th February saw our annual collective vintage sale at the excellent Bristol Sales Centre near Easter Compton. With a late flurry of lots entered into the sale boasting close to 50 tractors, a rake of implements and some useful small lots filling the building we were set for another bumper days selling.

With the bell ringing out at just gone 10am it was Jeremy Curzon on stage first selling a majority of the lots in the building. Things got off to a flyer with lot 3 a ‘The Foden Book’ selling at £230 and the next lot another Foden book topping £170. A pair of rather splendid restored petrol pumps found new homes at £250 and £280 a piece. Tractor tinwork was still in hot demand with a pair of Leyland mudguards selling at £150, IH 250/414 mudguards knocking down at £180, a straight Fordson Major front cowl sold well at £380. Top price in the building went to a sought after Foden combination injector No.3 by Whites and selling on the phone for a vendor pleasing £1,050.

It was then the turn of Oliver Godfrey to call the bids and finishing off the lots in the building were a Lister Start-O-Matic 4.5kva generator knocking down at £360. With the building done it was time to move outside to sell the implements, highlights included a Ferguson 2furrow plough at £350, Ransomes Robin 2furrow sold at £320 and a tidy David Brown 2furrow match plough hit £350 also. Implements continued to sell well with an original Massey Ferguson 150 3furrow mounted plough selling at £410 a rare axle pinion driven finger bar mower made in Sweden for a Fordson Standard N finally knocked down after some spirited bidding for £830. Top lot went to a very original Massey Harris 701 stationary baler with an Armstrong twin cylinder diesel engine sold exceptionally well for £2,100.

Bill King then took over proceedings to sell the vehicles and tractors, kicking off with an unusual 1962 Vauxhall Cresta in fine fettle selling north of the border for £1,500. With close to 50 vintage and classic tractors on offer 63% of them found new homes with the highlights being a very interesting and well presented 1934 Austin DE30 selling for a pleasing £7,000. A Nuffield Mini 9/16 achieved £1,500, a useful Massey Ferguson 595 Mk.II realised £2,000, while a Massey Ferguson 590 hit £5,450 and a super original 1961 Fordson CFT took £3,100. Good trade continued with a David Brown 995 4wd selling for £4,300, a smart 1952 David Brown 30D took £2,000 while a very original Ferguson TE20 vineyard took £2,050. One of the more memorable highlights was the rather surprising amount paid for a c.1942 Huber 8ton roller with a Caterpillar D4 engine and two sale goers got stuck in and pushed the price all the way to a remarkable £5,150!

Another good sale with one of our best ever attendances and many bidders still willing to part with their hard earned for the quality on offer. Our attentions now turn to one of our largest sales of the year on Saturday 16th April 2011 our Cambridge vintage Sale, entries close on 7th March 2011.