With SED 2009 just three weeks away we conclude our look back at shows from the past with a look at my personal favourite venue Fen Farm Milton Keynes.
The show was held at Fen Farm from 1991-2005 and had a really open feel to the showground, if the sun was out it was a great place to be but it could get very windy and cold if the weather wasn't playing ball!
This fantastic aerial photo shows the sheer size of the showground.
Lets take a look back at some of the products that were on show during the fen farm years.
These photos courtesy of Mark Gunns show the VME stand at fen farm.
1991 was the year that VME purchased the Swedish built Akerman range of excavators who's UK base was at Peterborough. Pictured here is a relatively new H16D on mass excavation rig which was sold to Chunnel Plant Hire. Also released at this time were the B series ADT's - here shown an A25B
Here is a great shot of the Komatsu stand at the 1991 event.
Leaping forward now to the 2004 show and here we see a Daewoo 255LCV 25 ton excavator being put through its paces.
The 2004 event enjoyed glorious weather as we see in this photo on a very busy Caterpillar stand with potential customers around the Cat D6RLGP dozer.
Of course it wouldn't be SED witout the stunts and here we see a couple of shots of the skilled demonstrators up to their usual antics!
And on the Engcon stand we were all presented with a sweet from the basket this excavator was passing around!
Looking now at the final year at Milton Keynes the 2005 show, and once again our old friend Doug Potter is up to his usual tricks on a Hyundai 140LC-7 on the Ernest Doe stand.
Rail equipment was very popular at the 2005 event and here we see a JCB JZ140R conversion by Philmor Rail, a 22000KG machine with zero tailswing a very useful piece of kit for rail work!
Another unusal piece of kit which caught my eye at the 2005 event were the Australian manufactured Kanga loaders this one is a Series 7 loader.
And finally a look at the classic plant section which is always well represented at SED by members of the Lighthouse club.
Here an old fitter looks on at a Caterpillar 955F and was reminiscing to me about his time spent working on the final drives on this model ..Happy days !
So there it is our round up from shows of the past is complete, I look forward to meeting up with readers of the Digger blog at this years event at Rockingham on 12th-14th May.
Why not look me up at the Contract Journal stand and and have a chat with your blogger, I will be delighted to meet you all!
Comments (1)
Hi Nick sorry i forgot to send you the photos i had loads from SED at Fen Farm Milton Keynes at least you had good photos of the exhibition which i was pleased to see i have somewere in my collection photos of the CMPE Plant Exhibition at Haydock Racecourse many years ago if you are interested have not been good the past few weeks and cant make SED at Rockingham unfortunately . Tom.
Posted by Tom Aspin | April 19, 2009 10:29 PM
Posted on April 19, 2009 22:29