Originally Posted by grumpy
Thanks Pete - I remembered that your Masport had a D series engine. They look extremely similar to me in general layout. Rather a complicated design, but you could as easily say "advanced" as complicated, with the reed valves and the centrifugal automatic ignition advance. Can you give us dates for the A and B series engines, and whether they had the reed valves and automatic ignition advance?

Next time someone says Victa invented the rotary mower in the early 1950s, that is just one more piece of evidence that they are talking nonsense.

Hi Grumpy,
As far as I'm aware there wasnt a B series i dont know who decided to jump all over the alphabet with the lettering for the series's as they jump several letters at a time.
The guy who owns this A series says its 1954 but will try to find a date when they started making them


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Cheers
Pete

Last edited by Pcamore; 02/11/11 10:39 AM.