A selection of interesting photographs from the 

 Oakes Bros album

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September 2009 Oakes Landpower demo tour with the Case IH STX535 Quadtrac and Simba SL cultivator puts in a very good performance against the competition in Hampshire, Wiltshire & Berkshire.

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Harvest 2009 did not enjoyed the best of summer weather but our demonstration programme continued allowing us to showoff to great effect  the New Holland CX8090 straw walker combine with a 30ft Varifeed header and the CR9090 rotary with the new 35ft Varifeed header.    

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Chris Walters visited contractor Bill Mildenhall working at Savernake in June 2009 to check all is well with his new New Holland T7040 tractor and New Holland BR7060 round baler

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April 2008 and the Bunning 35T tri-axle manure spreader, the largest we have ever supplied, is installed by John Fox-Spencer at West London Composting.

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February 2008 and a used New Holland combine harvester with 30ft header & trailer leaves Micheldever depot en route for Bulgaria.

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March 2006 sees the delivery to D.L. Lemon (Wilton ) Ltd of one of the first JCB Fastrac 8250's sold in the South of England 

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September 2005 a very busy month for shows. The biggest for us was the Royal County of Berkshire Show at the Newbury Showground.

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  August 2005  and  Mr Peter Lemon is seen swathing and harvesting his new borage crop.

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The Santana PS-10 continues to find favour with our customers. In August John Fox Spencer is pictured handing over Highclere Santana 0804.jpg (49598 bytes) a new station wagon to Mr Les Taylor  for use on the Highclere Estate, near Newbury.

July 2004 saw the new New Holland CR980 operated by T & M Cooper put to work into oil seed rape.   Cooper CR980.jpg (43393 bytes)  Fitted with a Biso 'Crop Ranger' header and a powered rear axle this certainly is a very  impressive combine.    

February 2004, and at last the sales department had the chance Santana demo day.jpg (409383 bytes) to put our new Santana PS-10 Santana off-road.jpg (121402 bytes)   through it's paces on the off-road course at Tangley

 

A ploughing demonstration TG285-Kuhn Challenger 1.jpg (10848 bytes) at Hungerford in mid December gave us the opportunity to team up the New Holland TG285 with a Kuhn Challenger 12 furrow plough  TG285-Kuhn Challenger 2.jpg (10631 bytes)

The Royal County of Berkshire Show enabled us to  P9210052.JPG (192364 bytes) exhibit many new products for the first time. Fine September weather and plenty of visitors meant the Oakes staff P9210058.JPG (191803 bytes) were kept very busy all weekend promoting the New Holland CR980 combine, TS135-A & TG285 P9190036.JPG (193548 bytes) tractors and the Santana 4wd vehicles.

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P9020004.JPG (193113 bytes) September 2003 and we took time to exhibit at the IOG SALTEX sports, amenities and landscaping show at the Windsor Racecourse also in attendance for the first time were Fourtec with the new Santana and Bremach 4x4 vehicles P9020006.JPG (607669 bytes)

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The end of harvest is approaching and the Littlecote Farm Partners fleet of New Holland CX and CR combines powers through LFP2003.gif (55957 bytes) b the last of their wheat crop. (photo by Ray Doughty)

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Demo CX.JPG (116979 bytes)   Sunday 10th August, the hottest day on record and our demonstration New Holland CX880 combine was performing faultlessly for M.Rowland & Co at Burbage.

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    July 2003, two New Holland CR980combines fitted with Cheval header extensions successfully complete the first block of winter oil seed rape for Peter Lemon at Wilton.

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P5310017.JPG (85836 bytes)    On the 31st May with the kind permission of Mr Ted Box the first tractor sold by Oakes Bros, a 1918 International Titan was exhibited along side the latest New Holland TG285 4wd tractor at the Wilton windmill open day.

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