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I have a few of these buildings. The open front pitched roof one looks like a Hugar and the American style barn on the left could be also although Triang made similar buildings. The 'farmyard' in the centre is like a couple that I have, a farm house, open shed, pond and well on a board and a barn in a walled 'feild' with a gate, unmarked and maker unknown. I have a Triang large wooden nissen-hut style barn also. Can anyone find the old posts or topic on 'farm buildings'? I think this should be revived and contiued there then I can post up pictures of mine.

Here's a couple of pictures of it.

Toy fairs are the best bet but I have not seen any at our local ones now for about 3 years and now seem very hard to find. I just wonder how many Kubota tractors were produced by different manufacturers apart from Diapet. One Model Kubota that you do find occasionally is a cabbed L4200 by an unknown producer. I think it's 1:32 scale. Picture to follow.

Your Yanmar Robbo is the exact same model I have as well except my box has a single piece perspex window and the model is in a polystyrene tray and the letter characters printed on it are slightly different, by the look of the code number on the end of the box it dates to about 1983. In 1:26 scale.

Diapet have had little publicity as they seem to be a little known company. A Japanese company that is also known as Yonezawa toys which is the parent company. Apart from other models they have in the past made some very decent farm model tractors and probably implements but I have never found any implements up to now. They have produced several tractor models over the years but the ones that do turn up from time to time is the Kubota tractors. I know of two models, a cabless 'smallholder' type with a rotovator, which a member on here has posted up in another topic but no doubt will also put it here with a little more information, please, and this model that I have posted here that I found a few years ago in a toy fair in its original box. This model is a Kubota 'M' cabbed tractor mainly in diecast with plastic wheels, rear linkage and front weight and cab interior. The front axle is posable, rear linkage goes up and down, cab doors open as do the bonnet side panels when you pull the top of the grille panel forward to release the clips to reveal reasonable engine detail. The 'antenna' on the cab is silvered plastic (as is the windscreen wiper) and folds down out of the way. The model is in 1:20 scale and measures 8"1/2 long and 5" high to the top of the cab. In real life this tractor would be roughly the size of an MF135.

I have the exact same Diapet Kubota and rotovator boxed as well. I've also got a 1:20 scale Kubota M type complete with box and rather than explain here what it's like I'll post up a picture of it later in a sperate topic. Diapet did some good models.

01.41am typing this. Heavy rain and storm-force wind and we've just had a few bravish claps of thunder and bright lightning. Started raining around 2 ish pm and by just after midnight there was 44mm recorded in my rain gague, thats 1 and a 1/4 inches.

Thought the 1:32 one was imminent, was'nt sure when but my supplier the last time I saw him had not had them in. I've been told that almost all the first batch new UH models are coming out in dealer boxes now.

Actually 1:43 isn't it. 1:32 model is on the 'to come soon' list I believe. A cracking model and mine was about £20.

Have not got one yet but I'm not over impressed with the 'cultivator' as it looks a bit on the 'cheap' side. Having silvered front tine feet and black 'tyres' on the depth wheels would considerably improve it I reckon.

Still only in one corner of the blank square. Something you're not quite getting right in re-sizing.

Can't believe I missed this Sue but Maylow Products were a very small British diecast toy manufacturer that, amongst other small companies, were aquired by Meccano in the late 1940's early 50's and of course, Meccano was Dinky. I'm not sure what they did produce but I have a few of the tractors, I don't think that they were in production for very long.

You could be right, should have noticed the bar. Lone Star also did near copies of britains implements for a short time, there is a silver framed with red plastic rotors Vicon Acrobat that Lone Star made, an almost exact copy of the britains one. This was in the era of the green box in the mid 1970's of LS I think.

It is a genuine Britains plough but as said, was one from one of the sets, something akin to the rear Twose type digger and post-hole borers, in different colours in different sets.

And they have been continually going downhill to date (in my own opinion) but are being 're-educated' or at least informed. Although climbing up the hill again could take some considerable time as they are in the main manufacturers of toys and not models as such, or at least where farm stuff is concerned. (Precision models being the exception but that is another facet of the polygon).

Nice to see you there again Nathan. Sorry I did'nt come back the third time after we were discussing the Ford tractors but there were none of what we were looking for for the intended purpose but I think there might be a couple in the bottom depths of my 'for spares, repairs or convo box. Will keep you informed.

I noticed that a lot of farm stuff on stalls in Exeter today have been on them for several previous fairs at this venue so it's pretty obvious that they want too much for it. You would have thought that they would have clicked and got the message by now. I'm pretty sure that they actually make a loss, travel expences, their time and around £32 a table. And some of them have 2 or 3 tables, they never seem to learn that Devon and the West Country in general is a totally different monetry world than the likes of London!

That compressor is made by Timpo back in the early 1950's. they can be found in various colours and are now quite rare. This one looks in good condittion but is a smaller scale than Britains, should have a smaller diecast man and kangol coupled up with a short length of plastic pipe.

Well Steve, I guess you could do one ok and the decals could easily be done BUT there may be them that would consider that making a 'copy' of this model would be unethical considering all the hassle and comment that the 'real' 50th model caused and there have also been a few 'fakes' offered on auction sites. I see no problem in doing one for your own personal collection as the prices being asked for the proper one is rather prohibitive but there is nothing like the real mc'coy. I guess, at the end of the day, the decision is yours to make.

From the toy fair at Exeter today. New U.H. 1:32 Massey Ferguson 8680 in dealer box, new Agco DT275B in dealer box, new Challenger MT685C ltd ed, 1:43 Massey Ferguson 590, superb model which they are also bringing out in 1:32 later. Britains striped boxed 'Forrest Enterprise' Landrover, mint. A couple of trees as well which were missing a few bits. Britains 'Vintage Series' Home Farm farmyard scene set and an early blue boxed on plinth red and yellow scuffle/cultivator. The new limited ed Corgi JCB 3C, 1:50. nice model, limited to 1500. 1:16 U.H. new County 654 and the new Ford 7600. A lot of farm related stuff there today but asking prices were still pretty steep.

50hp is correct. Made between 1956 and 1958 and the majority were exported to America, South Africa and Australia. Now, and over the past few years, many that have survived are being brought back to the U.K. because not that many were sold in the 'home market' as they had no hydraulics and were basically haulage tractors and used for belt pulley work on threshing. in total there were only 1260 units produced and were officially known as the 'Cropmaster 50'. There were also a number of tracklayers produced from 1952 to 1965, the ealy D.B. crawler tractors had a petrol kerosene engine, the 30T, with the later ones having the diesel, 30TD. These had the 30D engine. 1667 of the tracklayer crawlers were produced, the agricultural spec one being the 50TD and the industrial version, the 50ITD. The 40TD tracklayer, which looked much the same, used the 950 diesel engine of 42.5hp.

Just thought I'd mention that the next one is this coming Sunday 1st November. I know that one stall holder will have some of the new releases such as the UH 1:16 Nuffield, Britains County and the UH MF 590.

I for one hope that the hitch will incorporate the pick-up type drawbar hitch as the old diecast ones were and that 'orrible' useless swinging oversize ring will be a thing of the past.

Received numbers 16 and 17 in the Tractors of The World and Farming, Massey Ferguson 65 and Lanz Bulldog D. Delivered next door so I only got them today.

When hydraulic lift began to appear on tractors in the late 1940's, because of the War there were no ploughs being made with hydraulic lift coupling and the farmers still had their old trailed horse and tractor drawn ploughs, new ploughs were not being manufactured because of the shortage of iron but plough shares and wearing plough parts were as we still had to till the land to feed the nation and it was some time before ploughs were manufactured for 3-point linkage so when tractor lift did arrive, a lot of farmers had their trailed ploughs converted to lift and this was invariably carried out by the local blacksmith who also did the majority of farm machinery repairs and fabrications and in doing this for farmers later led to the natural progression of the blacksmith supplying farm machinery and later on tractors, this is when dealerships and agricultural suppliers started to spring up. I bet that anyone who looks far enough back into their local dealers history that their predecessors started their buisness as blacksmiths.