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I have just been fortunate enough to aquire this poster from the Harris era advertising the Harris Brantford binders in France.

What other Harris memorabilia have we out there - it is quite thin on the ground.

John
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That's a nice find, John.  I don't have anything from that era...  Thanks for sharing.

JB

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That's a very nice early piece of A. Harris history you found John. Over the years I have found anything to do with Harris is very hard to find. I only dropped lucky once and found a 31 page catalogue in West Yorkshire. It covers mowers, self raking reapers, binders and rakes. I also have a pocket compendium and a mailing envelope.

Malcolm
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John, Malcolm.

What some lovely stuff you have there on A Harris. I've never to be able to find much written about A Harris. Not as much as what is written about the Massey Family.Or pehaps I haven't looked in the right place.

I notice in your picture of the Brantford factory Malcolm they weren't too concerned about C2o emmissions in those days !!!

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Alan,

You note the smoke from the Harris factory that Malcolm has posted.  If you look closely in the background of my poster you will see smoking chimneys.  These are sugar beet factories near Calais in France.

John

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This is a great example of what comes out of "discussion", I had not noticed the chimneys of the sugar beet factory in the back ground of your poster John, only focusing on the immediate detail of A Harris and its rarity.

Also after Alan's post looking at the factory photo in more depth, just look at the A H S & Co flag flying on the front of the building, now that would be a rare piece of early memorabilia to find!!!

Keep hunting we have a long way to go with our collections, but this proves if we all keep talking about the subject we learn more, so come on Massey guys keep it flowing and hit the keyboard.

Malcolm.

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John, 

How do you know that the chimneys in your poster were the sugar beet factory chimneys. near Calais.Thats quite some detective work. One thing that does occure to me though is over here we wouldn't be harvesting and lifting beet at the same time.

It is a really nice poster as is Malcolm pictures. Not often seen. I wonder if anyone has some Harris material the otherside of the pond that their are willing to share. Unfortunatly I don't have anything.

In my last post of course it should have been CO2 and not what I wrote.

Alan

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Enjoyable conversation guys.  I had also not noted the smoking factories in the background on John's original piece until he pointed that out.  It's all in the details!

As far as the "pollutants" go, there was especially no concerns at that time for the amount of particulate matter and/or ash going into the atmosphere.  Things that I spent a lot of time dealing with on diesel engine exhaust in the last several years of my career.  :-)

Cheers,

JB

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Alan,

Mine and my wife's schoolboy French at work on the writing on the poster reveals that the owner of the binders had sugar beet factories and this can be substantiated by trawling around on the internet.

As for the seasons I would agree with you but in all probablility the picture is not "real" but rather an artists impression bringing together a harvest scene and linking it with the owners other interests.

Some of the French script translates as " Harvest at M. Stocklin's, farmer and manufacturer of sugar at Sainte Marie Kerque (Pas de Calais).........supplied by the agricultural co-operative of the northern region"

Hope that this explains a bit.

John

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Here is a pic of an 1891 A. Harris and Son catalogue - the only one that I have ever come across.

John
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