Hi, and welcome aboard CyberJack, I hope Outdoor King can provide you with as much value and information as VM.net does, and I can see from your first post that you are certainly going to feel very welcome here!
This is amazing stuff from the common myth of Victa "Inventing" the rotary mower (Not to discredit Merv's success in improving, marketing and producing it) we have now moved back 24 years.
This all helps create a valuable timeline, I was aware that electric rotary's appear to have come before petrol ones (perhaps the Beazly Patents 90 degree drive system shows a reluctance to leave the concept of horizontal crank shafts behind, and therefore complexities in design) but so far the time difference is looking a lot closer.
1928 we see the miller patent, which seems to me to be electric, then in 1929 we have the beazly patent, both in electric and petrol.
To give a timeline based on evidence so far we can see
1928: The Idea of an Electric Rotary Mower is recorded.
1929: The Idea of a Petrol Rotary Mower is Recorded.
1946: Evidence of a Petrol Powered, Vertical Shaft Rotary Mower, With Catcher.
1948: Evidence of a Petrol Powered Rotary Mower being Created in Australia
1952: The Creation of the peach Tin, A Light, Easy to manoeuvre Vertical Shaft Rotary Mower Created in Australia
We have all we need easily accessible to discern Victa's first Mower, Catcher, Self-Drive, Rear Catcher, Governed Carby etc.
But this is the kind of information that helps peice together the same timeline world wide.
I am curios as to when certain improvements came about, there seems to be quite a gap between the patents of the late 20's, and the self propelled, rear catcher, vertical shaft petrol engined Rotoscythe in the 40's.
Honestly it is seeming to me that a lot of moves Victa made where not new idea's, just implementations of existing concepts in much more successful ways.
