Britannia AuctionsCollective auctions and single item consignments in Norwich
Many of the single lots in Norfolk stand in a barn, not on an estate. A farm workshop outside Dereham replaces a compressor. A grounds contractor near Aylsham sells a ride on mower at the end of the cutting season. A packing shed near Wymondham has a flow wrapper it no longer uses. In the city, the food and drink firms on Vulcan Road and Salhouse Road turn out a single mixer, an oven, a walk in fridge or a labelling machine when a line changes.
These are collective auction lots. We put them into a regular online sale with items from many other vendors, each identified by lot number only, so one mower from a village yard sits in the same catalogue as a full dispersal. Bidding runs with a viewing day before it closes, and the buyer pays us and collects in an agreed window.
Tell us what you have and how a vehicle gets to it.
Grounds machinery at the end of the cutting season
Norfolk's business base is tied to the land, and so are its single lots. Ride on mowers, flail toppers, chainsaws, hedge cutters, quad bikes, trailers, post drivers and the tools from a farm workshop are the everyday entries from the villages around the city. Food and drink processors add stainless tables, mixers, ovens, vacuum packers and refrigeration from a single unit.
Timing is worth a conversation for grounds and farm kit. Machines come free at the end of a season and buyers equip for the next one, so tell us when yours is available and we will give you a view on when to enter it and on likely interest before you commit.
Wymondham, Dereham, North Walsham and Diss are well placed for the viewing day, and bidding is online for contractors further off who send a trailer. The A11 and A47 put most of the county within an hour of the city.
Sending the right vehicle down a farm track
Collection is the part that needs thought. Broadland Business Park and Longwater are laid out for lorries, but a good share of the lots we handle here stand in yards beyond the ring road, where the last mile is a lane with a bend. So we ask for photographs and check the approach, the turning space, the gateway, the surface and the loading help available before deciding what to send. Often it is a rigid lorry with a tail lift or a van and trailer, and a mower drives itself on.
A rural lot can be collected and sold from our premises where that is agreed, with a set viewing day and staff on hand. A larger implement or a piece of processing plant that would cost more to move than it is worth can be catalogued where it stands, viewed by appointment and collected once by the buyer after the sale.
Either way the buyer pays us before collection, and you are paid after the sale is reconciled.
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 Norwich
- Our grounds business near Aylsham has one ride on mower and a flail to sell. Is a shared sale the right place?
Yes. Grounds machinery suits a collective sale, because the trades that use it run from contractors and farmers to parish councils and private owners with a paddock. Send us the make, model, year and hours, photographs, and say whether it has been serviced. Tell us when the machines are free and we will suggest which sale to enter and what to expect. Collection with a van and trailer can be arranged, or you deliver.
- We are a small food producer on Salhouse Road with one spiral mixer and a fridge to sell. Will they cover the cost?
A spiral mixer usually clears the floor on its own, and we will confirm it from the photographs. It suits bakeries and other producers. A commercial fridge is borderline by itself but can go in beside the mixer as a second lot. Send photographs and the model numbers, and tell us about any faults so they can be described. Both fit on a tail lift, and one visit is enough to collect them.
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- What happens to unsold lots
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