LeeRoebuck

A few (this scanning lark takes longer than expected!) more selected brochures of the much maligned 900.

The next brochure came from a collection which belonged to a Polish truck manufacturer (hence the scribble and stamp) and had been part of their market research at the time.

And the jewel of my 900 collection a very rare 900 rowcrop brochure.

Thanks for looking

So Lee is it just DB brochures you collect or is it all manner of things DB?

Anything and everything to be honest from a pin badge to a full tractor and everything inbetween.

Nice collection Lee

cheers chap

Great collection there Lee - would like to see some of the later ones too.

cheers, I'm going to go in chronological order so the 94 series are 40 years of literature away bit I'll get there!

A couple more early brochures i've got scanned in.

A David Brown Thresherman brochure, only ever seen this example and I believe they only made 180 tractors.

As Tim (powerrabbit) mentioned some brochures fall out of a A4 size and this is one of those brochures. It folds out to be near A1 size outlining the implements and tractors models available at the time.

Cropmaster launch brochure - A4 size which folds out, this brochure puzzles me as it has no publication number or date and doesnt sit with any graphic styles of the time.

Superb collectiion Lee... and hats off to you for undertaking such a mamoth task. I've always had the dream of doing the same with my MF collection... but to date, I've not mustered the energy to learn how to do so.

I'll be watching this topic very closely and thanks for sharing mate

Cheers Mark, i must say that at least there are a finite number of DB brochures to collect. I wouldnt know where to start collecting/cataloguing with the Massey stuff as they are still producing brochures!

• Some lovely brochures there Lee, very nice to see the original early literature. Thank you for sharing them. The six-furrow plough booklet is a very rare item, I have it myself, but have never seen another. I don't have the early VAK1 brochure or the one for the Prairie Cropmaster, that is very, very nice and rare.
  

The single sheet implement leaflets are nice too. You have a very good collection. Lets see some more of them!

Regards

Rory

Hi Rory, I struck lucky with the six furrow brochure and i've only seen another and that is with the DB tractor club...so theres at least three! I shall upload some more brochures as I get them scanned in.

Great looking brochures! Certainly a topic to follow. Good luck with creating a website for your brochures, I know how much work it is

It is quite the daunting task! You've done a great job with your site.

fantastic brochures, a website dedicated to one brand literature is certainly a great way to promote and showcase your collection. It is also a way to share the wealth of information you have gathered throughout the years.

as Ronald says (he does have one of the best websites about one brand dedicated literature) it is a hellish of a job to scan everything and set up a website.

I also am working on a website about my collection and it is a huge amount of work (been working on it for over 18 months already and still have 20% of my brochure collection and 35% of my modelcollection to go...)

the best of luck with your website, i will definately be following your proceeds!

18 months!....going to give myself 6 months to get the majority of the sales literature scanned in and then scan in repair/parts manuals too. The plan also is to get a computer set up in the workshop and have the manuals on there too hopefully eliminating anymore oily finger prints in the books.

Having quite a vast collection of David Brown printed ephemora myself I can imagine what the project is going to be like. The early single page leaflets are quite straight forward as they are in A4 format and easily scanned whereas the later ones are just a smidgin larger and more difficult unless you have access to an A3 or larger scanner. Then there are the bi-fold, tri-fold, quatra-fold and multi page brochures not to mention the 3 foot wall charts and posters that were produced. I wish you good luck Lee in creating a web based archive which I will look forward to, as I'm sure many others will as there is a very large following for D.B. related stuff, not only here in the UK but, seeing that 95% of all D.B. agricultural and indutrial manufactured products were exported to 92 different Countries, the rest of the World too.

Hi TIm, yes i know what you mean about the varying sizes! The worst are the bottle opener era brochures which are a4 but have a fold out flap inside, these read ok when you have the brochure in hand but become a little disjointed when scanned in. I think the larger posters and wall diagrams will have to be photographed. With your "vast" collection Tim I might need your help in plugging the gaps

Some crawlers

Field Force range of brochures

900 and implematic era implement brochures

Ploughs

My collection spans the breadth of the David Brown line from the VAK1 to the 1694 and everything in between. My plan is to create a website to host all of my brochures and to also host donated scans to create an online resource...so watch this space!

Decided to get some new folders for my collection of brochures and in doing so took a few photographs of the early brochures I have.

First up the wartime economy brochure of 1942

1943 VAK 1 brochure which was published a month before the bullet hole grilles were fitted. Secondly a vak1 potato spinner brochure of which I imagine there were other "implelement" brochures of this style but to date I have only ever seen this one.

On to the cropmasters...

...and something to put behind.

They were all early photographs from 1939 to 1940. The ferguson brown lots had some very interesting photographs including a high clearance ferry brown with what looked like a pro driven sprayer.

Yesterday with a slight tinge of food poisoning and an umbrella i headed down the Cheffins sale. With an eye to purchasing some of the very rare and very early David Brown photographs which had all come from a private collection which at one point had belonged to Mr H P R Scott, General Manager of the factory.

Link to lots: http://www.cheffins....tage-sale-226-0

The auction commenced and what was witnessed couldn't have been predicted.

Lot 1. £500

Lot 2. £260

Lot 3. £460

Lot 4. £460

Lot 5. £480

Lot 6. £2600!

All lots went to the same buyer with the addition of 10% buyers comission and vat. Lots 7 & 8 made £200 and £160 repspectively. The lots themselves were a unique collection but many of the photographs, as with the image above had been seen and duplicated in DB publications and books. There were lots of duplicated images too with 20 or so copies of the industrial Ferguson Brown included in a single lot.

Period picture of the cab fitted to the above tractor. Canvas sides and roof, metal clad cabs can be identified by a non angled windscreen top (where the DB decal sits)

Sorry found this topic a bit late' Axle featured on the brochure (Straight type) is a Selene axle. These were fitted to both 990 and 1210 brown and white tractors. Very few were fitted to orange and white tractors making this brochure an early one. Later brochures in the same graphic style with differing axles and different cabs which help date these. (sorry about the quality of the photographs)

What rain? 

A significant proportion of the car parking area is part of the old RAF Winthorpe runway - bit potholey nowadays, but hard standing nonetheless.

Quite hard to believe they landed a Vulcan on it isnt it! www.airsceneuk.org.uk/oldstuff/2005/newarkvulc/newark.htm

look forward to this what with lee's compitition entry as well good start mate 

Only just spotted this!

Good look with the job, you might have to take the tank back out as the sekura tank was different and the cab structure wont clear it. 

wow that looks like the bee's knees and the cat pyjamas! Its almost a shame to spray it.

Great pictures Andy, you must have been there early as i got fed up of people walking in shot when taking photos. Don't suppose you know how much the german spec 990 4wd made do you? Sounded like a bag of nails when it was running.

From memory the large steam engine didn't sell at £180,000 the steam truck sold at £154,000 and the doe didn't sell at £54,000.

The model has now been removed from e of the bay as it is now sold to a member of the forum.

Thank you again for all the kind words

Lee

Hi all

Got the stickers in the post this morning and got them applied today so the model is finally finished! I've also decided to let the model go and is now on e of the bay, i just don't have the space to display it. Anyway enough with the advertising here's the pictures.

Cheers

Lee

You've got a bad paint reaction going on there. Have you primered on top off existing paint? Acrylic paint (which halfords primer is) reacts badly when put onto cellulose based paint but cellulose onto acrylic is fine. I had the same trouble a while back with a set off wheels and i had no choice but to sand them back to the plastic and start again.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Some effort and care put in here,it looks awesome.

Could we see a photo of it in transport mode sometime please Lee.

Here you go

Thanks for all the kind words about the model too, it nearly did get put in the bin a bit back but i'm glad i stuck in there

Yes that really is a lovely piece of work. Looks like you have rescued a fallen giant and made it into a first claas model. Impressive.

Cheers, lovely use of the word Claas! 

cracking piece of work. Do you have anything else planned to put on it?

Not at the minute, I'm busy with a couple of models for chaps on here plus theres the scratch building competition which i still hope to enter. To be honest i'm not sure why UH haven't already brought out the Saddletrac already.

Lee

and just the saddletrac.

Lee

Hi everyone, dont post as much as I would like too but thought i'd share this with you all.

The model started from a UH factory second, the model didn't survive the roughs seas from china so had all sorts of bits missing and falling off so i thought it was a good idea to get the dremmel on it. That was 2008 and after sitting on my workshop table for all that time i finally got around to finishing it this week.

The hopper of the drill is styrene sheet with some bits robbed from the donor Lemken drill. The new platform for the cab is styrene too with steel guard rails. The lemken unit can be removed to leave just the saddle trac as i did plan on making the Kaweco tanker. Just waiting on the lemken and Solitair 10 stickers to turn up and i'll finally have the space back on my workshop table.

Cheers

Lee

Thanks for sharing these pictures, I was only 12 at the time myself and was blown away at the time by the number of tractors there. If only i knew what i know now back then i remember a box of David Brown leaflets for 50p each which now make £20 -£30!

Thanks for sharing the pictures, it looks brilliant. Hope the get to do the bullet hole grille VAK as my real machine is a 44' with a the grille. The only other noticable differences would be no rubber hand grips on the steering brakes and gear lever. The deep calormeter was replaced with a walmot breeden unit too. I think i'm right in saying that the side panel badges lost their tail flahes too.

Its nice that you manged to get the protoype, these DB models are few and far between compared to the other manufacturers.