PART FOUR - The Gravic Gang Mowers

By the mid-1930s Grant & Vickery were manufacturing Gravic Gang Mowers.
This would make them one of only three Australian manufacturers to do so:
Scott Bonnar (c1933), and the lesser-known Berrigan (c1933).

The Gravic gang mowers were advertised throughout the 1930s by Motor Tractors.
All lawnmower production would cease during the war years, and recommencement
would begin post-war in about 1946. Alex Grahame, whilst continuing to sell
Gravic petrol and electric mowers, never advertised the Gravic gang mowers ...
for the obvious reason that they were the State Distributor for the English
Thomas Green's gangs.

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I have good evidence that Gravic gang mowers sold quite well in NSW and
some even made it as far as Tasmania, a small island to the south of the
Australian mainland. Records show that many golf clubs and municipal
councils bought Gravic gang mowers.

I know nothing about the specification for these Gravics, beyond that
they were full-size 30 inch units, and were heavy duty - so a serious
competitor to the Scott Bonnars and imported Ransomes, Shanks, Greens,
Lloyds and etc. Here is a SMH ad from April, 1950.

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TO BE CONTINUED ...