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Sorry chaps and chapesses, I've not been following this topic for a while but thanks to Mark I'm now up to speed with it. Anyway, looks to me like a Ransomes plough that has several parts missing so hard to tell wheather it was a three-point mounted or a trailed plough. If the 'cross-shaft' is in the correct position, it is too far back the frame and any lift arms would never reach it but, as said, it could be that there should be a couple of iron spoked wheels on it and the ends being cranked, like on a normal mounted plough for the arms, would make more sense as when the plough is in work, you would wind in the sideways 'handle' (or out) to level up the plough for even depth furrows. There is no 'lift' mechanism on it that would consist of an eccentric 'dog' plate and a lift handle that would come under the 'axle' to lift the plough out of work or any drawbar hitch mechanism. If ever anyone sees a similar plough complete, it would be a good idea to post up a picture for comparison. As for David Brown ploughs being 'four-point linkage', I see where you're coming from, I think you may be visualising the early 3-point linkage plough on the VAK1 up to the Cropmaster where there was another link mechanism bolted to the left lift arm with a winding handle on it that connected to a lug on the cross-shaft for ajusting the width of the front furrow. This was discontinued around 1950 when the next model of plough had both depth/land wheel and the cross-shaft ajustment winding handles mounted on the plough headstock.

Stunning conversion there Lee, very well done mate. Particularly like the hydeaulics and cab detail. Just one point I notice if you don't mind me saying, you've missed out the black lining detail for the rubber representation on the bottom of the right-hand cab side pannel where it meets the top of the mudguard.

Might be a bit of a task but perhaps Andy could confirm orders and payments received from members by email or posting up a list. If any of us don't seem to be able to retrieve our order and payment details I can see, without conformation, there is going to be a lot of confusion. Anyone who has ordered and made their payments should be able to, if they have not deleted them, find the information in their email inbox and you can also get into your FTF orders account by going into the emails and the links that should be contained within those emails.

Have been repairing my water supply today. Pump stopped working yesterday and only found out by running out of water as the system is more or less sealed. Electrics kept tripping out the cut-out switches (fitted instead of fuses) so tried to call out the firm that installed it in 1984 (called out for maintenance and repairs many times but not often since) and discovered that they have gone bust. (bugger!) Found a local firm who came out and tested everything and discovered that the pump was 'going to earth' so had to pull up the pump from the borehole, which is 186 feet deep, put in a new pump and electric cable and then sort out the electrics by doing a fair ammount of re-wiring and a new switchbox/controler in the well-head. Got it all sorted now but took from 12.30 to about just after 3.30 to get it all up and running again. Not looking forward to the bill for it all, just told the chap to be kind and keep it as lean as he can.

The new Siku triple axle Ifor Williams stock trailer. Have not removed it from the box but I must say that it looks a very good model, only thing I can see that lets it down a little is the rubbishy looking 2 cows that go with it, they have rather strange eyes.

The blue linkbox was never sold on its own, it was in a set with churns, bales and sacks, two different boxes, first one with the Fordson Major on it and the second with the Ford 6600. The green linkbox was actually called a stock box as it had a diagonal hinged rail back end and was the same depth on all sides and deeper than the blue linkbox. I must admit that I personally have not seen the yellow stock box. Blue ones that I have come across over the last couple of years, complete, were priced between £2 and £3 at toy fairs.

Ewe were never taught the value of money at shool then Barry. The abbreviation gns after the figure means 'guinneas'. All livestock sold on the hoof at market always used to be sold to the highest bidder in guinneas and a guinnea in old pre-decimal money was one pound and one shilling (£1. 1s.) and you will find, as in the FW mag, a lot of livestock markets still trade live animals in this monetary unit or multiples thereof. This unit of money came into being when the gold coin the sovereign came into being, you may have seen them on the antiques programmes, a pure gold coin a little bigger than a 10p coin with the Monarchs head on one side and on the obverse side is St George slaying the dragon. the coins value was, untill the time of its withdrawl, worth its value in its weight in gold bullion value but with gold now at an all time high it is worth a considerable amount more and are now valued in sceap weight. Occasionally the Royal Mint still produce the coin for collectors on special occasions.

Scalectrix was a subsiduary of Airfix. If you look on the Scalectrix boxes from the 1960's the Airfix logo/emblem is also printed on it.

Britains hay bales in the 'vehicle loads' box from Mandy via eBay. Will have to start up a topic on the vehicle loads, I think there are enough variations to make a good discussion.

Looks to me like the PTO shaft isn't beefy enough to be the drive for the rear wheels, I suspect it's the drive for the internals and gravel delivery conveyor on the trailer part.

The Editor has informed me that although the current edition has been posted out to those who subscribe to it, there are a lot that have not arrived at their destination. For those subscribers on the Forum that are still waiting for their copy, contact Tim Bolton and tell him.

UH 1:16 Fordson E27N equal wheel Roadless and the Ertl precision JD 8430. Model stall at my local rally. These precision JD's are getting cheaper, paid £25 for the 8430.

Been attending my local rally this weekend with two of my tractors, yesterday and today. Will post up some pictures in the apropriate topic section later.

If I had purchased it myself I would have the invoice (or receipt) for it, have kept receipts for most other models.

Got mine at the time from local Claas dealer for £12, in fact, my Nephew who worked for them gave it to me, he had it at cost. One off model never to be repeated. Looking at it now.

The postal tracking system is a bit of a misnoma as you can only track an item being sent to you if you know the number on the ticket attached to the item if the sender has given you the number and the Post Office will only give you details of the whereabouts of your item if it has been delivered and you have to wait 3 weeks for the information. The same if you are sending anything by recorded delivery, It is only 'recorded' when the item reaches its destination address when you sign the postmans ticket when he delivers it to you so it's a total waste of time. To actually know where your item is you have to send it by 'special' delivery, either 'next day' or 'guaranteed'. I've done this several times and when sending anything by recorded delivery, go online and fill in the tracking form and enter the tracking code number and regardless of wheather the item gets to its destination or no, you never know as there is never any reply or conformation. The only way an item in the post can truly be 'tracked' is if you do like they did on an episode of Top Gear, put an electronic tracking device in it. Recorded does not give you a guarantee of insurance either, you have to fill out a seperate form for this. Guaranteed 'next day' or 'special' delivery is different, insurance comes with this but you have to print the value of the contents on the ticket of which the Post Office retains a copy. When someone offers 'proof of postage' this means that they have only been given a receipt for the cost of postage by the Post Office from which it has been sent from and the person to who the item is being sent can only find this out if they know which Office it has been sent from. Not everything is as it seems. This information I found out by having a long telephone conversation with the top man in my areas main Post Office one day when I was trying to find out where a package was that I had been expecting. Never received it and never found out where it whent to this day.

That's a damn good link you put up there IHPL, just spent 1/2 an hour reading the comments. One thing that has always puzzled me with a lot of sellers is when they state that their standard postage (and I assume including the secondhand packaging) on an item will be charged to the buyer for 'second class recorded post'. There's no such thing, it's either 'recorded delivery' or 'second class' not both.

Hi Tinycoll and welcome. The experts will give you more info but the modelling shops that do such things as model aircraft and the like stock these. There are also some good online suppliers as well. do a google and type in plasticard and see what comes up. eBay is fairly good too but may be a little more expensive source.

CMB, yes, the 'vehicle loads'. Sacks in the dark beige (rusty red) 'straw' box I believe are slightly later (1978) and do not have 'vehicle loads' and the 4 wheel trailer 'logo' on it. Still waiting for the box of bales. Came today, Britains Herald zoo keeper, (brush/broom missing) Timpo? plastic round haystack, Timpo? plastic blue wheelbarrow or ploughman and the Britains sack that the man is carrying on his back, this is the item I was really after. Not bad for £1.99.

I remember years ago an uncle of mine found 6 loaves of bread in one of his churns, the baker forgot to tell him when he delivered the bread that he had put them in the churn. Best thing we found with milk churns that they were a wonderful form of communication, all the dairy farmers used to pencil messages to one another in the under side of the lids and one in particular sticks in my mind, 'meet me behind the cow shed at half past nine'. Whoever it was meant for knew who it was from. Swapping short jokes was another favourite.

1:32nd model or 1:16th?

The new churns are a very dark grey colour, deep slate colour, whereas all the earlier ones were a more silver colour. I'm not sure if they came in an earlier box but this box is reddish orange with black writing with the wheat stalks each side on the front panel and has a window. Later ones just canme in a celophane plastic typr bag with a label on it and I think there were 6 churns in it and not 12. The sacks vary as well. early ones were rubber, like the bales, a bit squidgy, and were a pale grey colour, later ones are a darker grey and the new ones are dark blue. I've got a box of the early bales coming any day soon so when they arrive I'll post up a picture of the churns, sacks and bales together.

Hope you didn't pay money for the logs CMB, they're easy to make from a Sycamore sapling. My latest purchase, Britains straw boxed 12 churns from 1970. From eBay for 99p. Another seller had the same 'item' on a 'buy it now' for £21.

This in the past has been quite well documented and appears to be the way some 'buyers' attempt to get an item cheaper by contesting its condition on arrival with the seller. A good example was that a freind of mine sold a small number of 1980's Britains Ford tractors to a buyer in Belgium and six weeks after sending them off, very well packed against possible damage in the postal system, received an email to say that the items arrived severely damaged. My freind, being an honest and trusting sole contacted the buyer to offer him a refund of the selling price minus fees and postage costs. The items were duly returned and when he opened the 'package' discovered that in actual fact that the 'damage' had been caused by the buyer attempting to do major surgery on the tractors to do some conversions. This did not go down very well with my freind so he reported this to eBay, got all his money back and the 'buyer' dissapeared, his username no longer registered when searched in 'community'. Thankfully these sort of things don't happen too often thank goodness.

You would probably have to take out a mortgage Murry.