By Simon Griffiths 3ft • 4ft • Cricket Rollers • News • Re-Conditioned • Re-Power Kit • Service • Spares • White's Roller • • • • • • • • • • • 0 Comments

Roll Up – Roll Up! Book in your Auto-Roller’s Annual Service

New for 2022!

Over the past few years we have noticed that some of your lovely Auto-Rollers need a bit more TLC than our standard service offers.

This year we are offering 2 types of service:

  • Our Basic Service at our usual price of £395*
  • Our new Premium Service at £525* - this is inclusive of additional labour and oil to carry out a hydraulic oil change

We are also aware that some clubs/schools/organisations have incredibly handy people working on their grounds and maintaining their equipment, therefore we would like to offer a 'Seasonal Essentials Kit' that may help with any interim maintenance throughout the season.

Seasonal Essentials Kit - £65*

  • Chain Lubricant x 1
  • Spill Mats x 3
  • Flexi Funnel x 1
  • Grease Gun x 1
  • Grease x 2
  • Gloves Latex x 2 pairs
  • Gloves Nitrile Coated x 2 pairs

*all prices are excluding VAT, mileage over 100 miles from SN11 0PS to be charged at £1.50 per mile - supplied items are subject to postage costs.

Don't leave it to that all important cricket match to realise that your Auto-Roller needs its well earned yearly service.

 

Our Basic Service includes:

  • Engine service filters change
  • Coolant check and test (water cooled engines)
  • Engine oil change
  • Hydraulic return filter change
  • Check all lubricants and oils
  • Lubricate and adjust main drive chain
  • Full system checks

Our Premium Service includes:

  • All that is included within our standard service
  • Plus an hydraulic oil change - inclusive of additional labour and hydraulic oil

Book now through the form below or contact us for further details.

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By Michelle Clarke-Dowse 4ft • Case Study • Cricket Rollers • News • Re-Conditioned • Re-Power Kit • • • • • • • • • • 0 Comments

Tetbury – 4ft Roller

Look at this beautiful blue Auto-Roller - another fantastic colour to add to our rainbow of rollers!!

After a tough year for Tetbury Cricket Club, an incredible effort has gone into raising the funds for the future of the club. This included the refurbishment of their Auto-Roller, and its safe to say that all of us are very pleased with the outcome. It has been a pleasure to work with Paul, and we wish all at Tetbury Cricket Club a very good season ahead!

Luckily the sun was shining, and we were able to get some photos of the Auto-Roller in all its glory - along with our promotional pack that we are giving away with any new Auto-Roller purchase this year as we celebrate 100 years!

Please don't hesitate to get in contact if you have any questions about our cricket roller range.

Find out how you can fund a new roller too.

By Simon Griffiths 3ft • 4ft • Cricket Rollers • News • Re-Conditioned • Re-Power Kit • Service • Spares • White's Roller • • • • • • • • 0 Comments

2020 Winter Service Offer

Complete Auto-Roller Service for £395 *

Don't leave it to that all important cricket match to realise that your Auto-Roller needs its well earned yearly service.

*all prices are excluding VAT. Additional travel charges may apply.

Service includes:

  • Engine service filters change
  • Coolant check and test (water cooled engines)
  • Engine oil change
  • Hydraulic return filter change
  • Check all lubricants and oils
  • Lubricate and adjust main drive chain
  • Full system checks

Book now through the form below or contact us for further details.

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By Hannah Robertson 4ft • Case Study • Cricket Rollers • Funding • Grants • News • Re-Conditioned • Re-Power Kit • • • • • • • • 0 Comments

Ormskirk Cricket Club – Re-Power Kit

Ormskirk Cricket Club first contacted us in 2016, enquiring about an Auto-Roller Re-Power Kit. We were happy to supply them with a quote and were contacted again last year when they were beginning to put the funding in place.

At the beginning of this year, the purchase of a Re-Power kit was approved by the committee. We received the old roller from Ormskirk and began the process of shot-blasting and re-spraying the roller, plus fitting the new kit at our workshop here in Wiltshire.

Within a few weeks, the roller (looking almost like a new machine!) was ready to go back home to Ormskirk, just in time for the start of the season!

Before

After

We are happy to hear that the club are delighted with the results, and we hope they get many years of use out of the overhauled roller!

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Mint Green Re-power Kit

This week, we sent out a newly refurbished roller; in a striking mint green! This was part of an Auto-Roller ‘Re-power’ kit, designed to update existing machines with a new Hatz Diesel engine, fully hydrostatic drive and power steering system.

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By Simon Griffiths Case Study • Cricket Rollers • News • Re-Conditioned • Re-Power Kit • Service • White's Roller • • • • • • • 0 Comments

Wellington School Re-Power, Shot-Blast, Re-Spray

Wellington School have treated themselves to an early Christmas Present, they have invested in an Auto-Roller Re-Power Kit! Not only did they decide their roller needed painting they also had it painted in the Schools Uniform colours!

When the machine arrived, we checked the serial plate and were able to track it back to March 1981 when it was originally sold to Somerset College of Art.

We fitted this Re-Power kit on-site but we also supply a ‘fit yourself kit’ which takes around 1-2 days to install. The kit fits all makes and models of Auto-Roller from 1948 onwards! With the many years of manufacturing experience, we have been able to design the repower kit to complement the Auto-Roller design in keeping with the ‘Rolls Royce’ of Rollers!

Wellington School 1981 Cricket Roller
Before

Newly Re-powered Auto-Roller Cricket Roller
After

Customer Comments

Our roller was very old and worn out. We didn't know if it would start from one day to the next, and as a result, rolling during the cricket season became a job that no one looked forward too!! Autoguide have carried out a complete overhaul of the roller (including new engine, bearings etc.) and the machine is like new. With power steering and hydrostatic drive it will be a race to see which of the ground staff can get on it first this cricket season. The roller has also been resprayed to school colours to an extremely high standard. We couldn't be happier with it and the communication with Autoguide throughout has been superb.  

Graham Cox

Wellington School Head Groundsman

For more details visit the RE-POWER KIT section of the Web-Site.

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“Over the moon” with re-furbished Whites Roller!

Our popular repower kit fits into all Auto-Rollers, Auto-Mowers and T.H. Whites Rollers dating back to the late 1930s.

Halesowen Cricket Club, based in the West Midlands, recently sent in their Auto-Roller to be fitted with our repower kit as well as being shot blasted and re-sprayed.

The original serial number of the Club’s roller dated back to 1961 so over fifty years on, an Autoguide Repower Kit has brought this roller back to looking and working as good as new.

Nick Roberts from Halesowen CCC kindly got in contact to say “how delighted we are with the roller rebuild”. While the repower kit was being fitted in Autoguide’s workshop, the Club hired one of our 4ft rollers which Halesowen CCC’s grounds man “did not want to part with”. However, when their original roller was returned with a new engine, power steering and hydrostatic drive (to list just three of the features that come as standard with our repower kit), the Club’s grounds man was bowled over, “he could not believe how good their roller had turned out!”

Nick writes, “We are over the moon with our roller. The grounds man thinks it is brilliant as it runs on tickover with no strain on it at all. If you need a reference, you have got one from us!”

 

The repower kit that Autoguide Equipment Ltd manufactures and supplies, fits 3ft and 4ft Auto-Rollers, including Auto-Mower and Whites Rollers dating back to 1938! The Auto-Roller is renowned for its reliability throughout the world and machines that were built over half a century ago are still going strong today. Our repower kit complements this by being fitted into rollers to improve their efficiency, usability and functionality. Our repower kit includes a Hatz diesel engine, power steering, electric start and fully hydrostatic drive as standard- no compromises.

Having a standard Autoguide Repower kit makes future maintenance very straight forward (eg. buying spare parts or servicing) because we supply the original parts and our engineers have over 100 years’ worth of experience (obviously between them, we do allow employees to retire!) Consequently, we are able to offer the most reliable service.

Customers can either have the repower kit delivered in order to fit it themselves (with someone slightly mechanically minded, we advise 1-2 days fitting), or they can have the kit fitted by our specialist technicians (who know Auto-Rollers / Whites rollers inside out) here at our premises in Wiltshire. With the additional option of shot blasting and re-spraying the original machine, your roller can be transformed and given a new lease of life for many, many years to come.

Another customer who recently purchased and fitted an Autoguide repower kit contacted us to say “the operation [of the roller] is so much easier. Wish we had done this a few years earlier!”

If you have an old Auto-Roller, Auto-Mower or T.H. Whites Roller and would like further information about the repower kit created by the engineering team who designed these rollers, please contact us directly…and do not forget, if you are an ECB member you are entitled to a 10% discount off our price of a repower kit!

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Re-conditioned Auto-Roller lands in Mauritius!

Autoguide recently shipped a reconditioned 3ft Auto-Roller to a customer in Mauritius.

This 1967 Auto-Roller was fitted with a repower kit providing the old roller with a brand new Hatz Diesel Engine (9hp), power steering, electric start and full hydrostatic drive.

The roller was also shot blasted and re-sprayed so that the second hand machine looks and works like a brand new Auto-Roller.

After leaving Autoguide Equipment Ltd, Wiltshire, towards the end of January, the roller arrived safely in Mauritius a month later and was serving its purpose preparing cricket grounds under the glorious Mauritius sunshine within days of its arrival.

If you would like to receive further information about our reconditioned Auto-Rollers, repower kits and new 4ft and 3ft Rollers, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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50 not out!

Ian Smith’s work colleagues thought he was a little mad for thinking that the 50 year old Autoroller would be worth salvaging…but he proved them wrong.

The well used, slightly rusty roller was brought along to Autoguide workshop where it received a complete overhaul. 

A week or so after Ian, head grounds man for St Albans School, had dropped off the lacklustre machine, Autoguide had shot blasted the body work, given the old roller a fresh coat of paint, installed a new repower kit and re-aligned the rear roller.

“If I could book the same service for my body when I am 50 in 3 years time that would be great!” was Ian’s reaction when he first saw the roller out of the workshop.

Let’s hope that St Albans get another 50 years from their sturdy Autoroller!

For more information on the Re-Power Kit, general servicing and even roller hire during a service, please contact us or phone on 01380 850885.