Hello all! As you know, we recently became dealers in Continental and Mitas tyres. We can offer tyres for plant, agricultural and forestry vehicles at very competitive prices.

We have developed our tyre website to make it easier for you to find the tyres you want without having to trawl through endless lists! All you need to do is select the size you want from the drop down menus and the computer will do the rest! It couldn't be easier!

We also offer next day delivery on all items in stock. Give us a try at www.agricultural-tyres.com or give us a call on 015242 62922. We also offer a selection of second hand tyres which can be found in our spares section at www.unimogs.co.uk

The next batch of TC1 timber trailers landed at our yard last week and we have already had quite a few promising enquiries.

The TC1 trailer is the smallest of the 4 different models. It is the perfect solution for anyone that wants to transport timber without having to spend a fortune. It is also small enough to get into confined spaces which people with larger trailers struggle to do. It has a payload of 2t and can lift 150kg at 3.4m.

The price on the trailer is £4,000.00 + VAT which includes the trailer, crane and power pack. For more details please call us on 015242 62922 or visit www.timber-dragon.com

We would like to introduce our new Operations Manager Jeff, to Atkinson Vos. Jeff has been with us nearly two weeks now and is really getting to grips with the Unimog world. He will be answering your calls so he can get to know you guys and your Unimogs. Here are a few words from the man himself -

"Hi my name is Jeff. I am a new member of the team here at Atkinson Vos. I am here to help with your enquiries and assist with any technical queries you have. Before you ask they havn’t sent me for glass nails or tartan paint as of yet! They have all been very welcoming. I look forward to working for Atkinson Vos and meeting you all in the near future."

Another bit of good news from the workshop side is that Michael Taylor has returned! Michael is back in Atkinson Vos overalls and we are all glad to see him spannering away in the workshop!

This U900 has been brought back to life by W.H. Hesleton Recovery. It started its life in a salt yard in Germany. A friend of Bills bought it, drove it back and was planning to do it up. Because of the salt, it was proving to be a big job and the Unimog ended up sitting in a barn for 5 years.

Bill decided to buy it and do it up himself. Because the mog had been stood for so long, the salt had become inert so they cleaned it off and set to restoring it. We supplied a back body and some other spare parts to help them along the way.

Now its finished and it looks like a good job! It has a 17,500lb winch on the front, a 20,000lb winch on the rear, a 1.5t underlift fitted on the rear unimog standard attachments and a 1.5t electric rotating crane on the rear which is removable so they can use the rear tipping body if required. Its now used in Bills recovery company and in September, will be used for quite a different purpose - a wedding car! Looking forward to seeing those pictures!

We were contacted by a local garden machinery dealer who had seen our adverts for our new Timber Dragon timber trailers. He was looking for something on behalf of a university that needed a trailer to transport goalposts but also a crane to put them in and out of the ground.

We stepped up to the challenge and adapted a TC2 model trailer so that the crane could lift the rugby posts vertically and load them onto the trailer for transport. This avoided manual handling of the heavy and unwieldy posts.

For more information on our new range of timber trailers, please visit www.timber-dragon.com or call us on 015242 62922.

In our quest to provide our customers across the globe with good quality used parts we scour the earth for unimogs for breaking and useful spares. Frank recently enjoyed a few days holiday in Southern Europe loading a trailer with three Unimogs and other assorted memorabilia with two clapped out death-trap forklifts and his own blood, sweat and tears. He's back in one piece and we now have a good stock of quality pre-enjoyed merchandise for the round cab Unimogs.

Here at Atkinson Vos, we all love a bit of cake so it was a good day when Claire and Jason Ritchie of Moglet, presented us with this wonderful Unimog cake as a thank you for getting the mog up and running so they can begin their tour around the world! You can follow Jason and Claires adventures at www.moglet.co.uk

I'm sure you will all remember Adam and Chloe who recently bought a U1300L to go on a round the world trip.Well, they are now well on their way and have set up a great website so we can follow their steps as they make their way from London to China. See what they are up to at www.moglove.co.uk

This U2150L is sat ready and waiting for its new owner and to make the drive down to Wiltshire where it's going to be used for a number of different jobs. This Unimog U2150L38 has the biggest chipbody on the back we have ever made and its going to be quite the multi-purpose vehicle.

The customer asked us to make the chip body demountable so when it's not working, a camper body, which is currently being made, can go on the back and off they go!

Our yard was at full capacity the other week and a hive of activity! We had a container arrive for a Unimog to be loaded into and shipped off to Sydney, Australia. The Unimog has been in our workshops for a while having a full overhaul from top to bottom. It has had one of our intercooler kits fitted, a stainless steel stack and lots of other routine work on the brakes, etc. before it makes its long journey.

We also had a trailer load of Unimogs arrive to go into stock including a customers machines that we are selling on behalf of them and a U1650L which has recently been sold to an existing customer of ours in Ireland. Another Unimog that didn't hang around for long!