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THE BUYER By 2.30pm, the final hammer is brought down
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on the sale by auctioneer John Harland. The buyers mill around to sort out payments and see if any provisional bids might be turned into sales.
The hall is empty and the admin team concentrates on sorting out the paperwork. After assessing the prices, Lombard's Graham Coles leaves the provisional offerings to Matthew Davock, Manheim's LCV manager, to resolve and heads towards Bristol and home.
Jamie Gamble seems pleased with the day's work. He tots up 11 confirmed sales with two provisional bids waiting. The mix of vehicles he sells, highlighted ahead of the sale, becomes obvious as he scrolls down the list of vans he will take back to Nottingham.
The list includes a Peugeot 206, a Vauxhall Astravan, an Iveco Daily chassis cab with a curtainsider body, a silver Ford Connect, a Ford Transit minibus, and an LDV Maxus with air conditioning.
As he runs through, he reiterates the reasons for buying; condition and mileage. "The prices were alright. I was outbid on a few things but, overall, I had a good day. It has been very productive," he says.
The two provisional bids he is inclined to forget. "They wanted too much," he says.
The next stage for Gamble is to send his Volvo car transporter to collect the vehicles, put them through the workshop and out to retail. 'The vans," he concludes, "will be on the forecourt for January"