Sale a great success
On Saturday 11 February, the late John Crowden’s Field-Marshall collection was disposed of at the premises of David Bowman Pumpkins near Spalding, Lincolnshire, with a sealed bidding process the preferred method of selling the stock. It was all very short notice – advertised on the Field-Marshall Appreciation Society’s Facebook page only days before.
An excellent crowd attended the open day, and the sale went well. It included a restored, red Marshall 12-20, fitted with a cartridge start by Robert H Crawford & Son, and a model M. They sold for more than £20,000 each, the organiser of the sale told Tractor & Machinery.
After the sale there were two unsold lots of interest to us – a petrol/TVOpowered Fordson E27N and a Perkins P6-powered version. Both run and appear to be in good order.
For further information about these unsold lots, please call 01775 714539.
Ex-Rackham VIG
On Wednesday 15 March, at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, a 1941 David Brown VIG1/100, no. AW/C 29, went under the hammer. It’s one of 650 made between 1941-42 for the Air Ministry.
The tractor had been restored by the respected Ivan Cowlen, for Paul Rackham, and was sold by Cheffins at his historic auction. It was sold at Duxford by H&H Classics for £20,000.
Southern Counties
Southern Counties Auctioneers held its first Wessex Machinery Sale of 2023 near Shaftesbury, Dorset, on Friday 24 February.
Around 100 tractors and
