does anyone remember the auction at Lichfield in the 60's

[startinghandle]

i have been talking with an elderly gentleman who is not well but his mind is very sharp and he was telling me how he used to buy a lot of his machinery in the 60's at the auction at Lichfield as that his where Burgess and other dealers used to dispose of a lot of second hand machines he said that there would be a lot of county crawlers and majors as County 4x4 tractors and the Ford 000 range were taking over and there was not much interest in the old E27N tractors.He bought a Bristol crawler with P3 engine and it arrived at his farm late that night on the back of an overloaded Thames Trader lorry which belonged to a dealer that he knew well.... I suppose you could say the good old days!!!

 

[Fivedoors]

Yes wintertons were the auctioneers carried on until the 1990s when it moved to fradley for a few years until it closed.bought a few items there was very popular in the 80s with a lot of welsh and Irish buyers

 

[chaffcutter]

Remember it very well, never bought there but unloaded some scrappy stuff occasionally, the Irish dealers used to take a lot of the rough stuff back then. The local dealers shifted trade-ins there and made the majority of the entries I think.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Dad used to go there wuite a bit and would buy crap such as NH 4 disc mowers and spares! We must of had about 4 at one time and still find spares for them everytime we clear a shed out!!!

 

[borderterribles]

When it was in Lichfield town, the sale site was bang next door to Burgess's depot and the cattle market. On a similar note, does anyone know when Caenby Corner machinery sale ceased to be?