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How rare is a Cropmaster Diesel with Horndraulic loader

Wim3065

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Mixed Farmer
We got a David Brown Cropmaster Diesel with a Horndraulic? loader. Just like in the picture below (only much more rust... The rusty pictures are ours). It's a nice restauration project. It was my father his first tractor. We're missing the "lock" pieces between the loader and the wheels. Also the side bonnets for the Cropmaster.
In Belgium I can hardly find some pieces. If I look in the UK, I find the pieces expensive. Has this become a rare tractor or have the parts always be so expensive?

Is there someone who have the same setup who can give me some pictures of the connection between the wheel part and the loader?
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Netherfield

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Location
West Yorkshire
It's a 30D made between 1953 and 1958, I've seen lots of photos of DB's but never seen that loader before, it's possible that Horndraulic made the extensions and not DB.

As @Exfarmer says the tractor club could be a good starting point, when you're talking 60+ years ago there's not many ,if any of the factory workers left, I used to bump into a guy who worked the service dept, in the supermarket, he's well into his 80s, if I do see him again I'll see if he knows anything.
 
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