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Valtra Tractors The past two years have seen the successful introduction of the “T” series (6 cylinder) and the”N” series (4 cylinder) range of tractors, which have certainly earned respect from both existing and new Valtra customers. The tractors are reliable, economical and now a serious contender with the high profile competitive mages in the UK. This has certainly helped us to increase our sales – year on year and have won- over several “competitive” users. We now supply approximately 10% of all the Valtra tractors sold in the UK and always have a good stock of both new and used models available. New Machinery Did you know that with tractors aside, nearly a quarter of our turnover is attributed to new and used machinery sales? We are supplying both quality and cost effective machinery to most markets including Forestry Contractors, County Councils, Equine Centres, Amenity Contractors, Gamekeepers, Private Estates, Agric Colleges, Rural Enterprises and (of course) Farmers and Agricultural Contractors. So please, why not give us a try and see what the fuss is about? We are sure you will be pleasantly surprised. Our main dealers are: Amazone, Krone, Honda, Richard Western, Spearhead, Sumo – Good stocks and competitive prices on Browns, Fleming, Foster, Marshall, NC, Quickie and Major equipment. Our contact list is at the back of this brochure.
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JOHN BOWNES STORES HISTORY A s the stores department at John Bownes Ltd prepares to get ready for 2017 and all the new changes that are about to happen we take a moment to reflect back over the years that helped us get where we are today. Our first stores department was created at Springfield Yard and consisted of a small part of a shed between the workshop of the offices. The stock we carried in those days only amounted to a few thousand pounds and the parts stock control system consisted of a few hand written stock cards with an annual stock check done once a year and added up on a calculator. As the years went by and the company took on more franchises the need for a bigger stores department soon became apparent. Plans were put into place to develop a part of the showroom and create a new purpose built parts department, new shelving, a parts counter, new stock, lighting, heating and an office. The company eventually completely outgrew the whole site at Springfield Yard and a move to Court House Farm in 2000 saw the second parts department being created. This time even bigger stocking the range of parts to back up the tractors and machines that we sell to help meet our customers’ needs. New technology has also been a major part of the parts department, no more hand written records, invoices or account records it’s all on computer now and a good job too, where as we hand wrote 100 statements we now print around 400. No more orders over the phone or faxing it though – it’s all on line and email. Moving forward into 2017 and beyond the parts department will see changes yet again. We are currently moving some of the parts department into another building for storage purposes so we can create shelf space within the parts shop for new lines which are going to be introduced during the year. The introduction of JCB to the parts department will make a huge change which we are all very excited about. Over the years the parts department has also seen a number of staff come and go with Richard Langley being the longest standing member of staff. Geoff Hulmes joined us in 2001 and in December 2016 Geoff retired after being with us for 15 years and we all wished him well in his retirement. Geoff was the first member of staff to retire from John Bownes Ltd.
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