PART FOUR – A Complication
So, the important question is: Did this 1954 patent mower
go into production? The best answer is YES, but …

In researching another important NZ garden equipment company
– Ivory Brothers Limited [IBL] – I found evidence that Crowe’s “rights,
patents and designs” were bought by IBL some time in 1954!

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My best guess is that some of the Crowe designs were
developed and became the IBL branded Rotomoas of the
1950s and 1960s.

These Rotomoa branded mowers varied between domestic
mowers and commercial slasher mowers.

THE Ivory Brothers story will have to wait.

TO BE CONTINUED …