bill and bens dad
Member
- Location
- west midlands
Nice to see the old MF design still going strong Good Luck to them
Old skool Banner lane
- Thread starter trebornella
- Start date
- Location
- Co antrim
It was the best design, as is evident by the sheer number produced worldwide since basicly the 100 series introduction
A good design that worked well ,simple and practical i’m convinced that some of this modern stuff is none of these,modern tractors have no character about them.may as well but a electric engine in them and a robot in the seat.
- Location
- Huntingdon
can these be imported ?
- Location
- South lakes
People may laugh, but at least they have an industry, what have we got???? Imports!
Cowabunga
Member
- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
JCB plus a CNH assembly shed, for now. Lots of fairly low tech trailer fabricators. Teagle.
A fairly sad state of afairs.
- Location
- Co antrim
Not forgetting the pinacle of reliability that is jlr
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
I have UK built New Holland tractors, a JCB telehandler, Househam Sprayers, Standen potato equipment, Jones bedformers and a Teagle muckspreader from UK manufacturers who are still in business. There’s still plenty of good UK made stuff if you you want it. I have also got a load of stuff from manufacturers who have gone under such as Dowdeswell, Simba , Kidd , AS and Wooton trailers and it’s still perfectly adequate.
- Location
- Hampshire
Kidd is up and running again. https://www.kiddfarmmachinery.com/
only with one arm the other was leaning in the mudguard.......and nearly all 2wd.....and to get them to the other side of the field, you had to hold that round thing in the middle that steered the front wheels
which was made a bit nicer when padding and PS came along i must admit .
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Yes but it’s not the same. No muck spreaders we still have 3,4 and 7 tonne. They were special machines in their day.
- Location
- South lakes
probably owned by the guys relations thats assembling the said Banner lane copy! but one industry that is really boombing is BA systems, Building subs, Barrow in Furness, every man and his dog is working there, but talking to one of my mates who has worked there for years, workforce gone up 10 fold, but progress down!
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Highway star
Member
- Location
- North west
It will be top heavy like most places in the UK are going these days.
The offices will be stacked out with employees way more than they used to be! where the lads on the shopfloor/at the coal face will have dwindled.
Absolutely all over the place that’s why the council have no money, 10 people in the office and one using a brush . and I guess every single public company is the same..
Well do you not realise that diversity officers are crucial to the organisation