ploughmaster

......but this would be my guess,remember this

could be the new Claas Axion 900,that would give Claas a 380hp tractor,right up there with Fendt and Massey

Whatever the model is when it is released, it definately doesn't look like a Claas under the tinfoil 

was it 2000? i thought it was less, nearer 1500???

According to "the bible" 2000 made Sean

The figure of 2000 seems to have been first put about by David Bate in his booklet detailing his collection of Britains tractors (published in 1982), and as far as anyone is able to find out, 2000 seems to have been a more or less 'usual' number for special production runs from Britains around this era (it is thought the Valtra Valmet 8950, Deutz-Allis, Vermeer Baler, Hurlimann H468, NH TR85 in plain red box, 'Real Inc' Milk Tankers, and Forestry Commission Land Rover 90 were produced in similar numbers).

I am a little wary of sticking my neck out with a prediction on the final bid for the Hesston in that eBay link - it seems odd that there is just one very poor quality picture and virtually no description; without more and better photos it is nigh impossible to verify whether it is a genuine one or not. Genuine ones are worth a lot less than they once were; having been up towards four figures in the early 2000s, they generally seem to have made around £350 to £450 recently.

i think the siku remote stuff is fantastic in every way........and if you compare it to other remote 1:32 toy/ models in general it is worlds apart ,just the price i can not get my head round

Do you not think those two factors are related ??   

You can't expect the standard of the Siku remotes on another makers radio controlled at half the price.

fw 60 came today,will add mirrors and cab grab rails

Many of the FW60s never had mirrors fitted - although I think UK spec machines had to by law - but the model isn't necessarily wrong without them.

I don't know if the later FW was the same as the earlier ones, but the UK brochure for the earlier FW30 shows a mirror on the O/S only:

Is it perhaps a lift axle and in the photo is in the raised position ??

Why exactly is it not a 7430???

I have looked hard at various pictures (and have recently spent a few days driving a 7530), and I can't see quite what is so wrong with it.  Even as a re-decal on the 6930 model, the 40mm greater length and a 120mm greater height of the real thing don't make a big difference in 32nd, and I can't really tell them apart otherwise  \ 

As to the wheels being the wrong way round, some operators do turn one set of wheels the other way round to improve traction in reverse when using a loader in sticky conditions, although they normally turn the front set.

Impressive list, collectors of red are being spoiled this year - years waiting for some Internationals, and suddenly there are a whole heap   

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....i wont be buying the Britains Case models as Replica agri ones will be batter and as cheap.

Deep fried ? 

Being pedantic for a moment; there are no 'Case' models in this list from Replicagri, and as for being as cheap, I would be surprised if Replicagri will price them at under £19   

What I referred to as being similar to Dowdeswell green was a very bright green; similar to (or possibly the same as) the unusual coloured MF200 trailer referred to earlier, and must have been issued in the 1970s as the reversible in this colour is normally found in a 'straw' box. 

The pair of ploughs in the photo in my previous post are a noticably deeper and duller green (but still much lighter than the green usually used for the reversible and post digger and trailer) and were issued sometime between 1986 and the transfer of production to Macau in 1998 - they are normally in what I describe as a 'landscape rainbow chevron' box (being the later version of the rainbow chevron with the band of stylised bushes and trees across the middle).

Lucky escape for you then 

Those Case and IH models were seriously crazy!

Money to burn!

Agreed,  they need medical help.

just got the latest classic tractor with the new 2011 releases,the article says for more info check the 2011 uh catalogue,but been to uh website,and nothing there,is this catalogue out yet? if so is there a web version?

I don't think it is actually out yet, but I am reliably informed it will be about 200 pages  (and that apparently is after a few deletions in the range)

The ones I know about are:

Fordson Blue, Orange wheel, Silver painted mouldboards (sold as 173F)

Fordson Blue, Yellow wheel, Silver painted mouldboards (possibly 9530?)

Ford Blue, Yellow wheel, Silver painted mouldboards (sold as 9530)

Ford Blue, Yellow wheel, Chrome effect/unpainted mould boards (in set 9555 with 4 furrow trailer plough)

Metallic Blue, Yellow wheel, Chrome/unpainted mouldboards (in set 9555 with 4 furrow trailer plough)

Red, Yellow wheel, Chrome/unpainted mouldboards (I've not seen it boxed, but I assume it was either 9530, or in set 9555??)

Orange, Yellow wheel, Chrome/unpainted mouldboards (in set 9546 with 3 furrow reversible)

The  above had an authentically curved mouldboard and a rather sharp tip to the casting of the points which tended to get caught in carpets.  In about 1976, the casting was altered and the curve of the mouldboards was less pronounced and the casting of the points were extended to join onto the disc (to stop them catching in the carpet). Most of these later castings are are in set 9546 with the 3 furrow reversible and are known in:

Ford Blue, Yellow wheel, Chrome/unpainted mouldboards

Mauve, Yellow wheel, Chrome/unpainted mouldboards

Light Green, Yellow wheel, Chrome/unpainted mouldboards

Dark Green, Yellow wheel, Chrome/unpainted mouldboards (in set 9435 with the green/yellow budget version of the MF 595)

Bright Blue, Yellow wheel, Chrome/unpainted mouldboards (from about 1998 these were made in Macau)

Bright Blue, Yellow wheel, Grey painted mouldboards (made in China around 2001/2)

I seem to think there may be a Bright Green version (the same Dowdeswell type colour that some of the reversible are known in) and a Ford Blue version with a beige/tan coloured wheel too, but don't know for sure - if someone has one it would be good to get confirmation) as indeed it would be good to know if anyone out there has any further variations to add  .

I looked at that when it was first listed and my conclusion was definate repaint - I agree with tractorbob, the paint looks far too shiny and the silver foil decal is a definate replacement - the genuine foil decal for the later muledozers is rounded at the corners, not square;

... and in any case the genuine blue muledozer is only known boxed in the big Ford Super Major 5000 set from the 60s and has the face of the blade sprayed silver - the foil decals weren't used until the 70s.

Expensive mistake for someone there!

well lately i've got some pictures of massey ferguson having problems

I can see one common denominator in all of those photos. ....  and it isn't anything to do with the colour of the tractor!

Do you think this is anything to do with your drivers trying to do 60kmh?

Thrombosis in the drivers seat (as someone I once worked with used to say)   

That could be the one that came in a set with a green and yellow MF 595 budget version (9435) issued from 1986 to 1988.

That plough in a mid green was also present in set 9546 with the green reversible for a time, but I'm not sure that it was quite the same.

Edit: having just had a look, I am fairly sure that it is from the set 9546 with the reversible plough issued sometime in the late 1980s/early 90s:

I must confess to non ownership of them though, as they will be part of the soon to be sold Nils Fischer Britains Archive collection. I'l be doing a feature in our next Model Farmer Magazine.

That will be something to look forward to    In the days before eBay started disguising bidders user names, his name was frequently to be seen as the successful bidder on all manner of rare and unusual Britains items - and he was quite willing to pay whatever it took to win something he particularly wanted.  It will be interesting to see what they make at auction now.

(Does it say when and where in Model Tractor - I have had to stop taking that one; since they went to 6 issues a year I can't afford to buy it as well as Classic Tractor and Model Farmer  )

Very nice indeed - they are the usual kind of display that Britains used to use to display the models at the various trade toyfairs. 

The red colour on the 9600 Post Hole Digger is certainly one I haven't heard of before - it was probably a prototype/colour trial and never actually released in that colour (it was shown as green from new in the catalogues).  I imagine they tried all the paint colours they were using at the time to see what they looked like before picking the final colour, which was their usual practice with new models.  They might do 10 or 20 to see what they look like, then bin the ones they didn't like (this is how Warner Hall acquired the parts to make his yellow MF760 and Deutz green MF 595 - discarded trial parts out of the rubbish bin).

I've noticed a lot of stuff going for half what it was making a couple of years ago, but then some of the amounts that were being bid on run-of-the-mill stuff had got ludicrously high.  To a great extent values have come back to reality.  Mint and boxed stuff still makes fairly good money (though still less than the excessive amounts of 2+ years ago), but playworn and damaged/chipped stuff has really only come back to earth - it just isn't worth much; plus there is loads of damaged stuff about.

The blue muledozer for £13 is a disappointment, depending on condition (or not depending on whether you are buying or selling ), but sometimes very rare stuff fails to live up to expectations because the potential bidders viewing it haven't seen it before and don't realise what it is. 

At the same time, there are still a few long standing eBay sellers offering Britains items at the same vastly overoptimistic BINs as they were 2 or 3 years ago, and they're still not selling.  There are a couple in particular whose BIN prices  make me laugh out loud every time I see them (on a regularly recurring monthly interval every time they are relisted  )

About a month or so ago I think.

The only differences on the tractor itself are the change of the number on the decal and the change in colour of the grille decal from white/grey to black/grey.

The only change on the box was to change the 'Ford TW35 Tractor' wording on the end flaps and above the window on the box front to read simply 'Ford Tractor'.

Britains Gold 3185 on plinth. I wonder whether there was possibly a silver version too?

There was, but sadly it only existed as a prototype.  A few months before the plated effect versions went on sale, Britains lent a couple of the prototypes to Graham Miller for display at G&Ms autumn 'Open Weekend'.  One of them was a silver chrome Fastrac (as well as a gold chrome one).  The silver one actually looked rather better than the gold to me, but Britains and JCB decided to productionise only the gold version.  The only silver chrome JCB they issued was the 1CX.

Great collection you have there - if you get all the brochures to match the tractors you have models of, that will make a fair old pile 

........ if the seller wasn't trying to fleece people for £35!!!

Wow, that's a bit OTT   

Just for future reference, the suggested retail price for when these go on general release is £18.99 each (and may well be available for a little less from some sources).  Price is usually a little higher whilst models are in the dealer exclusive period, but even so, Case-IH are only pricing them at 23.90 euros (approximately £20), so don't anyone get carried away in their desperation to get one.

They certainly do look good, and I will be getting them when they go on full release.

I like the repaint in another thread with the black wheel centres - I seem to recall that was the original post merger livery and and was only used for a year or two.

This is pronounced "Project Z10" in an advert in the latest Farmers Guardian -but no pictures of the new machine, just a crate marked "top secret" [ ]- so thanks for that Mark. Masseys are starting to look fiercer aren't they? Back in the 90s they had a sort of startled "don't hurt me" look.

The project Z10 crate was there at LAMMA.  It looked a bit basic 

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

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.