Friday/Saturday 19th-20th April
There was a sales bonanza in mid-April at Cheffins’ Cambridge Machinery Sales site, when a vintage collective auction saw 2,989 lots sold for a turnover of more than £2 million.
CLASSIC LITERATURE
Things kicked-off at 9am on April 19th with Bill King selling 428 lots of literature. Among the many highlights were 12 Mercedes Unimog brochures that sold for £320, a binder-full of Roadless service bulletins that made £160 and a Dexta sales brochure and price list that went for £120.
The hammer fell on a Roadless DG half-track instruction manual and spare parts list at £160, while a pair of Fordson KFD leaflets (complete with period graffiti!) raised £50. Next came an excellent selection of from 1953-92. These technical tractor books, known as ‘the bible’, sold from between £200 for the best and £100 for the
