Britannia AuctionsCollective auctions and single item consignments in Doncaster
Plant hire yards on the edge of the borough are where most single lots around Doncaster come from. A hire firm refreshes its fleet and has one dumper, a compaction plate, a set of breaker attachments and a towable compressor that did not go with the rest. The agricultural dealers add a trade in tractor or a sprayer nobody wanted. On Kirk Sandall and Wheatley Hall Road a fabricator replaces a guillotine or a welding set.
A collective auction gives those items a proper sale. We put them into a regular online sale alongside lots from many other vendors, each identified by number only, and buyers bid across the catalogue for a week or two. The buyer pays us and collects in a fixed window. We account to you after collection and cleared funds.
Tell us what you have and whether it drives onto a lorry or needs lifting.
Small plant when the hire fleet is refreshed
Construction plant is a familiar entry in a collective sale. Dumpers, mini excavators, compaction plates, breakers, buckets, quick hitches, site lighting and towable compressors are still in daily use by contractors, groundworkers, hire firms and farmers, and bidding is online and open across the country.
The hire cycle sets the timing. Fleets are often refreshed when sites are quiet, so if a dumper comes off hire in the autumn, tell us and we will propose a sale ahead of the spring start. A machine with its service record, hours and any LOLER or inspection certificate can be described far more precisely, and the description is what a buyer bids on, so gather the paperwork before you call.
Small plant tows or drives onto a lorry. The trade in Rotherham, Barnsley, Worksop and Scunthorpe is within easy reach of a viewing day, and the A1(M) and M18 put a buyer with a trailer back on the road without passing through the town.
Fabrication and rail workshop tools from the older estates
The older estates at Kirk Sandall, Wheatley Hall Road and Balby Carr hold fabricators and rail engineering contractors, and they replace tools one at a time. Guillotines, press brakes, welding sets, plasma cutters, magnetic drills, pillar drills, bandsaws and pallets of steel offcuts are the usual lots. Rail contractors add trolleys and jacks that suit other rail firms.
Before we book anything we check the yard, the approach and turning space, the door dimensions, the floor and what handling equipment is on site, because that decides what each lot needs and what it costs to move. Lighter tools can be collected and sold from our premises where that is agreed, with a set viewing day.
A guillotine or a press brake that is still bolted down and wired in is often better catalogued in place. It is viewed by appointment, isolated by a competent person, and lifted once by the buyer after the sale, which saves a move for a machine that was never meant to travel twice.
What these sales can include
- Single machine tools
- Individual vans and pickups
- Compressors and generators
- Welding equipment
- Woodworking machines
- Hand tools and power tools
- Office furniture and IT equipment
- Catering equipment from a single kitchen
- Small plant and attachments
- Garden and grounds machinery
- Trailers
- Workshop consumables and stock
How a collective sale works
A collective auction is a regular online timed sale made up of lots from many vendors. Each vendor's lots are identified in the catalogue by lot number only. Buyers see one catalogue and bid across it, so a small consignment sits in the same sale as the larger ones.
Your lots are photographed and listed alongside the others. Bidding runs online, with lots closing in sequence on the sale date. Each lot is offered as seen under the auction terms, with buyers expected to inspect before bidding. The buyer pays the hammer price plus a buyer's premium, with VAT charged where it applies and shown separately.
After the sale, buyers pay and collect within the collection window. We account to you from cleared funds once it has closed and the sale is reconciled, less the agreed commission and any agreed costs.
The collective auctions and single item consignments page covers minimum viable value, at our premises or at yours, what to bring and what to tell us, timescales and unsold lots.
Questions about selling in Doncaster
- We are a hire firm near Doncaster with one dumper and a compaction plate left after fleet renewal. Do you take them?
Yes. A dumper is a lot in its own right, and we will say whether the compaction plate clears the value floor once we have seen it. Send the make, model, year, hours and photographs, with the service record and any inspection certificate. Anything on hire purchase belongs to the funder until it is settled and needs their agreement first. You can deliver, or collection on a plant trailer can be arranged.
- Does a guillotine from a Kirk Sandall shop sell if it has been there for thirty years?
Age matters less than condition and capacity. What a mechanical guillotine makes depends on whether it still cuts square, the blades and back gauge with it, the thickness it takes, the electrical supply, any faults and what removal costs the buyer. Tell us those, and send photographs of the bed and the blade. Fabricators who maintain their own machines are the likeliest audience. A reserve can be set.
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Guides
- How a commercial asset auction works
A stage by stage account of an online timed auction for business assets. It covers the asset schedule, cataloguing, viewing days, how bidding closes, buyer's premium and VAT, collection and how you get paid.
- What happens to unsold lots
Not every lot sells, but the site still has to be cleared. This guide covers why lots go unsold, private treaty after the sale, lowering or removing the reserve, a later sale, scrap and WEEE recycling, and what disposal costs.