Old agricultural merchants

[robo]

Burgess advert from February 1959 and Fordson Major advert

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when a young un I spent hours on : the new comfort seat : and it wasnt

 

[DaveB]

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.

 

[12 bore]

Brilliant these are great

 

[Husqvarna@1234]

Old ads are fascinating. I've got a lot from local ag related businesses.

I havel
Loads of the MF brochures some of the old catalogues there really interesting to look at

 

[timff]

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

 

[itsalwaysme]

This is an interesting website for old adverts etc, more general industry than just ag, but many familiar names.

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[borderterribles]

Farmers Weekly machinery adverts July 1958. I remember Dad always used to look at Does Column & Saville's List!View attachment 935215

Savile's have a Jones Invicta self propelled baler for sale!!! Bearing in mind that the advert is from 63 years ago, that is pretty remarkable. Anyone ever seen one working ?

 

[sjt01]

Savile's have a Jones Invicta self propelled baler for sale!!! Bearing in mind that the advert is from 63 years ago, that is pretty remarkable. Anyone ever seen one working ?

It is on here at 1 min 50, I was 9 at the time, it was a contractor operating it, and I think it tied with wire

 

[thorpe]

Savile's have a Jones Invicta self propelled baler for sale!!! Bearing in mind that the advert is from 63 years ago, that is pretty remarkable. Anyone ever seen one working ?

i spotted that , didnt know they made one.

 

[SarahB]

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.

 

[Husqvarna@1234]

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.

My mate used to get cattle feed if them

 

[MickW]

I believe that if you talk with Burgess pensioners they wouldn’t agree with you, maybe the directors looked after themselves.

 

[Still Farming]

Nice little product price booklet ,