Way back in the late 1990s Stephen Brooks purchased a Ford 5000 tractor. The tractor had spent all its working life on a place called Mickleton Hills Farm, which in latter days has become a wedding venue. “I found it through a friend in Ebrington,” Steve explained, ‘Mickleton Hills Farm is about ten minutes away from Ebrington.”
Stephen also found out that Paul Yates, a Mickleton based agricultural engineer of his acquaintance, had actually carried out its pre-delivery inspection whilst he was a young apprentice at Coulters. “Actually, I was surprised to learn that Paul remembered the tractor and that he had pdi’d it, although of course, I knew when it was new it had been supplied by them, and that was confirmed by the original owners when the tractor was purchased. The tractor also had the original Coulters dealers’ plate on it, also they were the main Ford dealer in the area at the time”.
Having the original dealer plate on the tractor really spurred him on in his quest to find out more about the company. “I knew that Warwick based Murley Agricultural Supplies, which is now part of the T.H. White group had taken over the agricultural side of Coulters at some point
