Extract from “Snippets from the life of a Spaldonian”. Mr Hanson describes many innovation which were brought into the production of Daffs. Today’s supermarket requires demand tight green buds and rather than returnable wooden boxes the introduction white lined cardboard boxes. Also the development of a conveyor belt packing system for bunching the flowers. This is universally used today.
However the wooden boxes were used to get the bulbs from the greenhouse to the fields. This was done by trucks on a light rails using a Ransom tractor converted to run on rails with a self starting Ford 8 engine. Do we have any pictures of this?
Hanson grew bulbs in Monks House Lane, Pinchbeck Marsh and Woolram Wygate but this was still not enough so land was hired at Pinchbeck West. Click on photo below to enlarge.
Do we recognise any of the packers.
