New McCormick dealership realises a long-held ambition
Tue 17/06/2014
Agricultural engineer Andrew Downing has realised a long-held ambition to represent a major international tractor manufacturer – his dealership has been selected to handle the McCormick range in Cambridgeshire. From premises at Gorefield near Wisbech, he is now supplying McCormick tractors to farms from the Wash coast above Wisbech and Spalding, southwards past Peterborough to beyond Chatteris.“It’s been an ambition to become a new tractor dealer for many years and now it’s happened I couldn’t be more pleased,” says Mr Downing. “The response has also been great, with many more enquiries than I expected at this stage.”
Better still, those enquiries have already resulted in two sales – a 25hp McCormick X10.25 for horticulture and a 110hp X60.40 for turf production.
Andrew runs his agricultural engineering business with his two sons: Charles works in the service department and George is involved in the specialist haulage arm. His own career started in the workshop as a technician at an International Harvester dealer. He then diverted into teaching as an agricultural plant and engineering lecturer at King’s Lynn technical college before returning to commercial business as a dealership branch service manager.
When that business closed 23 years ago, he set up on his own as ‘one man with a van’ and the company has grown ever since.
“We cover a very varied area, with some beef and also sheep on the wetlands around Ely and Welney, extensive apple and pear orchards in the Wisbech area and high-value arable and horticultural crops throughout the rest of the patch,” he notes. “We’re already stocking genuine parts and consumables for existing and McCormick heritage tractors, and carrying out repairs and routine servicing,” Andrew points out.
“We’re enthusiastic about increasing the McCormick presence in our area with a good range of products and professional back-up service.”
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