Restoration Blog – May Update

A day late, but its time for our monthly restorations update. We’ve mostly been active on our 1946 ERF Showmans Tractor and brining that along, we’ve been restoring it since 2001 (you can’t rush these things!). The new grill is made of a mix of aluminium and steel so has presented a challenge for painting. We’ve trialed our Anti Corrosive Grey Primer (for the Steel) and High Build Undercoat in some aerosols with encouraging results and its currently sitting in the Mid Red waiting a rub down and several top coats of Ayres Red.

We’ve also been working on the wiring which is now nearly complete, the gentleman doing it for us sadly passed away last year and its been quite a job to work out what needed doing. The front lamps have been reconditioned internally by us (lots of elbow grease) and the bezels are off the Ashford Chroming for attention.

Finally it was the month of the year we dread – insurance! For the first time in a long while it wasn’t a chore at all. We move to One Broker last year and they look after all our insurance now, but in particular their vintage fleet policy is excellent and we highly recommend it.