More than 25 vehicles, some from the 1930s, went on sale at Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, on Saturday.
The collection, including hundreds of other items such as pre-war horse-drawn machinery, belonged to retired farmer Bob Strudwick.
He said he was sorry to see it go but was getting too old to maintain everything.

Mr Strudwick had been farming all his life but had to give it up in 1971 when he was diagnosed with a condition known as farmers’ lung.
“I was a farmer born and bred but we sold up and I bought the village shop,” he explained.

“Doing the rounds you would see this or that, tractors and machinery that were no longer used, so that’s how I started collecting them.

There were more than 500 lots up for grabs.

The oldest tractor on sale was a 1939 Standard Fordson but he expected a 1941 John Deer Tricycle, imported from America during World War II, to attract the most interest.

Also under the hammer were old fashioned wooden butter churns, electric generators and horse drawn ploughs and other machinery.

Posted: 09|15|05 at 3:17 pm. Filed under: UK News.