You are bidding for a video record of the long discarded 16mm films described below. When each  film was made it provided a unique insight into its particular subject. Over the last thirty years a number of enthusiasts realised that such films provided an untapped source of information on past techniques and methods At some time in the past they would have been rescued after being discarded as obsolete by the original owners .

Any money raised from the sale of this video will go towards offsetting the costs of more rescues.

This DVD 1491 recorded during a showing of the films described. Gives you plenty of views in the films described. 

0075 Ploughman's Holiday 3  Canadian Ploughmen win a prize of a trip to England, . Whilst here they compete in various matches throughout the British Isles. Just as interesting they visit agricultural sites including  Rothamstead Experimental Farm,  Irish experimental station, Perth Bull Sales  as well as civic functions like Belfast where they planted some maple trees, and  visited a shirt factory. A fascinating look at Britain 60 years ago   Black and white 35 minutes  Sound film.

  0791  Royal Welsh Show.   Sheep shearing and sheep dog trials  Welsh Ponies stands for everybody, axmen, gymnastics display, Young farmers, tug of war , bale handling , motor cycle displays, horse driving events, parade of cattle , all on the then new site at Llanelwed. Black and White Sound 

 0062  Mystery    This film is appears to be compiled from film shot during a visit by a representative from the British Headquarters of Simms Motor Units  maskers of vehicle electrical and fuel injection components.  Shot in colour but with no sound  it appears to date from the early 1960s  and was shown to an audience of commercial vehicle enthusiasts in Wiltshire.

Background . Getting and expert order from South Africa was made easier by knowing that after sales service was available  for specialised components on purchases. For this reason Simms would have needed servicing dealers in countries where their equipment  could be fund in service.

         Most of the machinery shown in use would have been factory fitted with Simms equipment.  Foden 8 wheeler  double tanker outfit and various LAD cabbed vehicles. As concrete mixer waggon. Unknown handler. Leyland on timber haulage  with crane fitted elderly Foden? Tipper . Fordson Major pulling dump trailer  well laden. Out to a primitive airfield  to hand spares to the pilot of a light plane for onward delivery  ZS-CYZ. Bonneted heavy tractor  Aerial view  of town  newly constructed bridge crossed at speed by Leyland Tipper,  View of Cape Town?  Table Mountain  Batchelor and Son Gardner and Simms agents view of workshop servicing injection equipment. and electrical work including what looks like an early alternator.  Other dealer premises shown are  Loew& Halverson in the harbour area  and LG McCann  . Bedford J type with red flag on roadworks  Heavily Modified Fordsons used on sugar cane haulage .  These are some very drastic modifications .  Finishing with a view of bonneted Scammell tractor  tanker outfit. 

0063 Careers in Dairying Recruiting for jobs in all the various aspects of the industry. I would suggest that it was made about 1962 by the look of it. Bulk milk collection had just started. Includes a look at a bottling dairy and the jobs of the milkmen . Other milk goes to processing dairies to make cheese and butter. Richard Todd had a dairy farm as well as starring in firms.  In colour Sound 25min   

1272 and 0076  Milk Publicity Council  2  Colour films about the work of the Milk Publicity Council promoting milk in the early 60s 

.However this does mean that you if you are the successful bidder I will prepare your copy and send it to you BEFORE expecting you to pay. Assuming you are find it proves to be what you expected from the description all I ask is that you pay preferably by PayPal within SEVEN DAYS of the DVD reaching you.I can make this offer because so far with few exceptions everybody who has purchased a DVD this way has been fascinated by the contents of the video they selected and only too happy to pay.

To my mind that seems a very fair way to work for both parties.