PART SEVEN – The Final Years So, what happened to the Cambridge push mower?
The answer comes in late 1954 when Queensland Pastoral Supplies announced that it had been appointed “Sole Australian Manufacturers of the celebrated Lawn Mower, Cultivators, Seeders and other farm implements.” [see Gallery]
I guess The Cambridge Lawnmower Company was coming to an end. That was confirmed by a 1956 NSW Government Gazette entry that said the company had been struck off the register.
The significant thing about the 1954 QPS announcement is that QPS were free to develop the Cambridge brand … and that they did!
QPS went on to sell a powered version of the Cambridge reel mower, and also introduce Cambridge branded rotary mowers [see Related Reading].
The end of the Cambridge was due to history: the rotary revolution of the 1950s and the consolidation of rotary mower makers in the 1960s gave no space for the old, catalogue company that was QPS.
Both the Cambridge Lawnmower Company and Queensland Pastoral Supplies had run their course. The rest is history.
