The Farmers Mart Feb/Mar 2016 - Issue 44 | Page 63

The Townend Family We are pleased to be associated with the Townends and wish them continued success for the future. Let us do the shopping around for your Farm & Motor Insurances Harold Woolgar Insurance 35 High Street, Epworth, DN9 1EP Tel. [phone] - [email protected] We are Authorised & Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority Fordsons for tipping corn and carrots. In their day in the 1970s the name Eric Townend Trailers became well known and he would sell something like 250 a year. It was around 197576 that I started getting into selling other farm machinery and at that time it was Ferguson ploughs and other implements. “I’ve always enjoyed buying and selling farm machinery but now I concentrate on the wagon driving. I’m down in Dorset at least once a month and also travel as far north as Aberdeen. The Internet has changed the job a great deal but machinery still needs to be delivered. We also continue to have a good trade with local customers.” John also tells of how the association with York Auction Centre which organises YAMS, has been something that has worked for Townend’s many years. “My dad bought the very first lot to be sold at the first ever York Machinery Sale for secondhand stock. He bought a pile of timber from a man from Hull and r X