Old agricultural merchants

DaveB

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when a young un I spent hours on : the new comfort seat : and it wasnt
I did a great many hours on a 56 Major, no live hydraulics, pto and I guess it didn't have the comfort seat. Hinged pan seat with a large chunk of rubber it rested on. With a thick hessian sack on the seat, I didn't think it was bad. Possibly better than the new comfort seat, whatever that was. Certainly a tractor I enjoyed driving at the time.
 

timff

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Farmers Weekly machinery adverts July 1958. I remember Dad always used to look at Does Column & Saville's List!
FW 1958.jpg
 

SarahB

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FH Burgess were huge around here , excellent to deal with until the 90's when it started to go pear shaped .

They didn't upgrade to the newer technology and therefore got left behind .

All their outlets were in market town centres which made them extremely valuable .

A disgrace the company were put in to administration whilst the owners kept the freeholds and sold them off one by one

Eccleshall made £7m alone
The owners sold off the old branches so they could put the money into the pension fund and support their enormous group of ex employees with pensions. When the company went into administration that was their strategy to save the pension fund.
 
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SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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