Originally Posted by maxwestern
G'day nath ,Mf and Jack,

Originally Posted by nath
Definitely confusing then! One other interesting point on the Supa swift Greenfields is that they have pictured Steel deck housings, an option I believe never offered up here on the normal machines. The other thing I have come to learn is that anything greenfield changed happened on the fly with the hd series, nothing was really tested in advance as the big companies can afford to do now.


These incorrect images are often used in marketing , service manuals and owners manuals.

A lot of manuals use incorrect images the images are used for a guide only.

Another mower that was completely incorrect in ads ,manuals ,TV commercial was the Victa Ambassador from
1962 ,1963 ,the Ambassador shown must have been a model for testing because it had a steel base but the
Victa Ambassador people bought all had alloy bases.

https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=70029

https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=71632


Originally Posted by Mowerfreak
Who made those mowers I have seen with no brand that the stores sold, such as Waltons. They were at a lower price point, but value packed.

I haven't kept a list of all the mowers Waltons sold but I mainly see the Waltons Victa and Waltons Rover Fairway .

Cheers Max.

Hi folks,
Victa's first thumblatch models, the Impala 2 and 4 stroke show an absent button on the catcher, which would become a distinct feature of that design for years to come.

Onto the Walton's mowers, in ads that have been shown here before (posted by you MW IIRC) had a Victa in one picture with a generic non branded alternative at a lower price in a picture next to it. I saw examples for both a hi arch and a low arch mower with a generic equivalent.

The pic of the hi arch Celestial Deluxe next to the Celestial 160 mid arch is yet another example of not the exact model being represented in the illustration. That engine cover on the lower arch mower is the older metal version with the integrated metal cooling shroud when they would have had an updated plastic cover that screwed onto the shroud by then. Perhaps there were still a few of the old design in stock though. I remember seeing a Yellow Vortex still being displayed at Bing Lee at least as late as 1988 along with a Mustang GTS even though the Vortex was discontinued by 1987.
People have mentioned they were not enthusiastically taken up by the public due to the engine cover concealing the motor too much, so that is consistent there. Now collectors are all over them for that very cover!

Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!