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4. I was selling some building plots in North Bucks for
the County Council. What with me, the County Council Estates Officer and his
assistant, the County's solicitor and his assistant and the Clerk, we numbered
six facing a company of buyers numbering two. Even worse thetwo were together
and counted as one. Nevertheless I launch into the auction sale, but just before
calling for bids, the door is thrown open by a distressed gentleman complaining
that he has been held up in traffic. No he's definitely not too late. We then
had an extremely successful auction with the plots getting comfortable beyond
their reserve price.
5. Another auction at North Marston, again for the County Council, was of a very run down farm house with four acres. We thought it was worth about seventy thousand pounds and that was the reserve price. There was a good company of buyers, I asked for seventy thousand pounds and a man in the front row bid it. The rest of the company was stunned and I am sure he bought the property cheaper than by commencing the bidding at thirty thousand pounds.