Straw boxes

[CMB]

Does anyone know what years the implement straw boxes first appeared/disappeared? I can't find much background on them. The lighter one on the left with the MF135 and early cabbed Ford 5000 should really have been altered in 1973 when the new cabbed Ford 5000 came out but I don't know of any other that was used until the later one (here darker on the right) appeared in 1977 with the new 500 series, Ford 6600, Unimog and Deutz dx110 pictured.

[super6]

I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and go with 1971, but it could have been late 1970. Britains didn't do us any favours here with a dearth of trade catalogues between 1965 and 1971 inclusive. Instead utilising the customer catalogues with a trade wrapper/supplement. The introduction of the packing case boxes was noted in the 1962 trade catalogue! It may have been noted in a newsletter to retailers, I don't have anything in my reference material regarding this fact.

The seed drill, muck spreader and rotary tedder all came out in 1971 within straw boxes only changing when the chevron boxes came out. The last use as far as I can ascertain being 4708 Atcost farm building that was deleted end of 1995. Until the current crop of these buildings I don't recall there ever being any other packaging style. I stand to be corrected of course

Edited March 8 by super6
tryping error!

[CMB]

Thanks Paul. I have 1971 for the spreader, Lely tedder and seed drill as first release but I've not seen any of these in anything other than straw boxes. So these first straw boxes with the 135/Ford made from 1970/1-1976 and the later type from 1977-1981 (for implements). Interesting they stayed on for the Atcost barn