Standen | Green For Go! | Sugar Beet Harvesters

Standen | Green For Go! | Sugar Beet Harvesters | 1974

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11 жыл бұрын

It's 1974. This is Green For Go! A Standen sugar beet harvester promotional film bringing you an insight into the company's product range in the day.
During the 1970s, Standen commanded an impressive UK sugar beet market share of more than 60%. With flourishing export markets in many countries including Iran, Greece, Spain, Ireland and Japan, the company had the right technology at the right time that suited sugar beet growers everywhere.
'Film stars' include the Standen hoe, Rapide Tanker and Cyclone single row sugar beet harvesters, and the then-revolutionary three-row Standen Multibeet system with Front Topper, Standard Topper, Standard Topper with elevator, Flail Topper and three-row Lifter-Loader.
There's also some wonderful footage of the city of Ely in 1974 with its, cathedral, busy market and pretty riverside areas.
Narrated by John Witty
Script by Hans Leurs
These products shown were manufactured by:
FA Standen & Sons (Engineering) Ltd
Hereward Works, Station Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4BP, England

Пікірлер: 16

@hf5909 4 жыл бұрын

I can remember the day's when the beet were topped singly by hand with the beet hook as it was called, the beet were lifted with a horse drawn implement, I can't remember if one or two rows at a time. Work was tough in frosty and snow conditions.

@AgkitClassiks 4 жыл бұрын

Tough work indeed! At least working the beet hook would help you keep warm, a bit? We've come a long way to today's self-propelled 6, 9 and 12-row harvesters that lift 3000 acres plus a season and cost around half a million pounds! Thanks for watching and commenting.

@onanysundrymule3144 4 жыл бұрын

I myself have hand topped and tailed beet, in my school holidays and at weekends, to earn extra pocket money, say circa 1972. Maybe the machinery was broken or something, not sure why, but it was cold and frosty. Thanks for posting the video.

@AgkitClassiks 4 жыл бұрын

@@onanysundrymule3144 tough work indeed! Glad you liked the video, thanks for watching.

@leddielive Жыл бұрын

We always had to hand dig & top the beet with a hook in the field corners before the harvester could get to work, always remember stabbing the tractor tyre by accident one year with my 3 tined beet fork, not good, but better than my foot! 😄

@Cosm1cCream Жыл бұрын

Indeed it was

@totaltwit Жыл бұрын

Curious video production, it looks very 1950-60s with the posh narrator and wobbly camera. However the vehicles seen are very much 1974 - I can only assume this production (video) was commissioned (paid for) by Standen as the BBC and ITV were much more of today's standard in video picture quality. All the same was good to see this, that machinery is much more smarter than it first seems, and did we all cheer when the 135's came into view?

@AgkitClassiks Жыл бұрын

You're probably right, though as we're not aware of the production process for this video we can't confirm, but your observations do make sense. And yes, we all have a place in our hearts for the MF 135!