Rob, although I am no auction expert, part of the problem for auctioneers is that people bid on things and win them, then decide they don't want them after all so that's why they want a deposit, one of the reasons I've never bothered with them. Think the only one I recall going to was when what had ...
Although I don't know what this pipe looks like, I would imagine that you could get a new end soldered on if it was leaking on the end, if the pipe has holed I can't see why you could not but some and make one yourself, or again a good soldered repair.
Hi Andy nice loader, I would take the old belts off and measure them and have a loook see if there is a local belts, bearings, drives supplier, even an internet one, cheaper than OEM.
Did they ' engineer Wolverhamptons future'. I worked on a construction site in Wolverhampton centre in 1988 tbh it was pretty grim at that time . They owned quite a few different industries around the country including NEI Thompson Tankers which used to be at Moxley just down the road from Wolverha...