A friend of my father's bought a lot of 3 Bedford RLs from Ruddington to work in the woods on his Ravenswick estate in North Yorkshire. He sold 1 to someone at Ruddington and set off driving 1 and towing the other non runner on a solid towbar, after a couple of miles he thought that it was rather sluggish and pulled in to a layby to check for binding brakes. When they found that the brakes were not hot they checked the back of the Bedfords and found 25 crates in each truck, they opened 1 and found a BSA B40 so they opened more and found each crate contained a B40. Hello then found a phone box and rang the auctioneer and was told "you bought that lot so they are yours".
A friend of mine actually bought one of those B40s and I can remember seeing the crated B40s stacked in his sawmill.
On a slightly different tack a friend of mine went to the last auction at Aston Down to buy some Land Rovers, the auction ended without any Land Rovers being auctioned, my friend approached the auctioneer and asked why the Land Rovers had not gone through, the auctioneer admitted they had missed them and asked my friend to make an offer on them.
My friend checked the Land Rovers and found some were running, some had bits such as engines missing and some were accident damaged. There were series 3 109s, 88s, ambulances, piglets and 101s. So my friend being cheeky offered £125 each, the auctioneer said that he would put the offer in and let my friend know the outcome. 2 days later my friend got a phone call from the auctioneer telling him "they are all yours, all 450 of them, you have 3 days to move them" Yes he bought 450 Land Rovers at £125 and he did move them in 3 days to the field opposite the entrance to Aston Down.