71/149

This share has a general purpose use, and is for LDF double furrow ploughs or SDF single furrow ploughs.
This share has a general purpose use, and is for LDF double furrow ploughs or SDF single furrow ploughs.

1 share: metal (iron)

In the MERL Trade Records collection are Reeves' price lists for plough shares and necessary parts for ploughs, January 1931, MERL Miscellaneous note, Greta Bertram, 10 March 2014 – The Reeves Collection was donated by R. & J. Reeves and Son Ltd. of Bratton Iron Works near Westbury, Wiltshire. The firm, which manufactured agricultural machinery, was well-established by 1849, and went into final receivership in 1970, when the Collection was donated to MERL. Bratton Iron Works was demolished in 1973. A detailed list of all of the objects in the Collection can be found in the accession file for 70/235. Records relating to the firm can be found in the MERL Archives, reference TR REE.