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Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
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Restored Ferguson Brown tractor sets £53,000 auction record

It's not just old Defenders with huge price tags.

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"A restored 1938 Ferguson Brown tractor has sold for £53,000 at a summer vintage machinery sale in Herefordshire.

The eye-catching hammer price for the Model A tractor is a new record for HJ Pugh & Co Auctioneers, who ran the two-day sale at Hazle Meadows Auction Centre in Ledbury on 16-17 July.

Somerset farmer and tractor enthusiast Bernard Rowe spent £20,000 to buy and restore the tractor and it was among four he sold at the auction.

Mr Rowe bought the Model A from a farm sale 10 years ago. It was number 502 out of a production run of just 1,250 and is fitted with the earlier Coventry Climax engine. The farmer said the rear tyres were the originals.

Harry Ferguson’s first production tractor with hydraulic depth control was the Model A, built for Ferguson by David Brown of Meltham, hence the alternative name for the tractor of Ferguson Brown.

At a sale last September, a similar model sold for £36,000.

Bidding started at £10,000 and rose rapidly to £22,000, slowing to £32,000 then creeping up in small increments to the huge hammer price of £53,000. A buyer’s premium of 6% is to be added.

Another hefty sale was a 1950 Field Marshall Series 3 tractor, restored by Robert Crawford Ltd. The red tractor had a hammer price of £28,000.

Auctioneers HJ Pugh & Co said it was an astonishing sale."

https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/tractors/r...ion-record

23rd Jul 2021 5:19pm

Procta

Member Since: 04 Dec 2016
Location: Sunderland
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i am not surprised at that! i was right into metros, before the defender. I had one of the most viewed other project threads on the 306 forum years ago. I bought the car for peanuts. now you cannot get hold of a metro for that at all, the Turbo ones are going for well over 10k. Mind that would be the only metro i would own now, after owning the k series metros. But then again i love the mk2 escort.

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25th Jul 2021 2:40am

Rashers

Member Since: 21 Jun 2015
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 3341

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Albeit a lot bigger and more modern, Cheffins sold this at auction just recently. These prices are now getting into the realms of traction engine money

25th Jul 2021 8:45am

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