Tractor heritage, news and features

Auctioneers Halls reported one of their most successful collective auctions of plant and agricultural machinery at Shrewsbury Auction Centre on February 3.

 The day’s top price of £21,600 went to a 2005 JCB telescopic loader. Other leading prices were: £17,000 for a 2005 Valmet A95 tractor, £11,200 for a 1999 Massey Ferguson 8240 tractor, £10,000 for a 2009 Marshall 12 tonne rear discharge spreader, £9600 for a Steyr 1994 with loader and £7700 for a Lewis Badger compact digger/tractor.

Star buy of the trailer section was a Richard Weston 16 tonne root crop trailer, which sold for £7000. Other leading prices were £5800 for an A W 14 tonne silage trailer, £4500 and £3700 for Richard Weston 14 tonne trailers, £3100 for a Chieftain 14 tonne dump trailer, £2700 for a Marshall eight tonne silage trailer, £2650 for a Wheatley eight tonne grain trailer,  £2300 for a Griffiths eight tonne trailer and Ifor Williams livestock trailers sold to a high of £1800.