Hi Max
Yeah, pushies are not favoured amongst collectors.
Yet, that's all the working class had for half a century.
Many Aussies were still using scythes and sickles in the early 20th Century.
I appreciate the comment about catchers.
Unlike rotaries, pushie catchers were always 'optional' accessories,
and I think the vast majority of push mowers were sold without them.
Both Pope and Ogden eyed each other off in the 1950s.
They made similar push and powered reel mowers.
Pope was the more successful mower maker of the two,
but I think there is good reason for that...
When John Stanley Ogden established Ogden in 1934 his
main product was his Lockwood brand of locks.
That's where the real money was.
Cheers
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Jack
