My Dad did a fair amount of this construction work throughout the 1960's, I can't remember much of it as it was slowing down in the early 70's as the grant aid moiney dried up. I recall him saying the grant aid money disappeared completely around 1975. At one point the grant money was 40%, VAT was 10% so that was half the bill covered before any tax allowances.What decade were most of them built?
There was one set up I knew well similar to the one shown here that dad built most of, for the time it was the ultimate in efficiency, it was a ring fenced farm of about 220 acres, the grain handling allowed the farmer to work single handed, he combined a trailer load using his Clayson 12 foot combine, drove the 5 ton trailer load back to the yard, tipped into the pit, pressed the start button and drove back to the combine, he had a 12 ton load out bin similar to the one shown here, as lorries got bigger as he said at least it was half a load before you started augering into the lorry.