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(5/2/2012 2:27:37 AM) British Wallis As Joe mentioned recently
in another thread last Saturday saw the Annual Cheffins Spring
Vintage Auction take place on their huge permanent sale grounds
at Sutton near Cambridge, with 3,500 lots of literature, spares,
vintage tractors, cars, mtorcycles, steam engines, and related
machinery all sold in one day with five rings operating at once,
which gives you the run around if looking at lots to buy in
different sections. It was a pouring wet day and very cold too,
but that did not put off the large crowds which attended.  Of
special interest was lot number 3229 a British Wallis tractor,
serial number 1493, a tractor which had been consigned to the
sale from it's owner in Northern Ireland and originally spent
it's working life in New Zealand. Over the years it has suffered
several modifications including the steering mechanism which had
an interesting reduction on the shaft  and an automotive style
steering b