PART TWO - Why the Name?
I have asked that myself - why the name 'Platypus'? Their first machines were electric and
electricity + mower hardly welcomes water . . .

That the Platypus Tool Company should name itself after a very odd and uniquely Australian
water creature is of no accident. From the earliest days, the Platypus Company wanted to be
identified as uniquely Australian. Many ads use �all Australian� and, �manufactured in Australia�,
and �Sturdily built for � Australian conditions�.

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This does make sense:
Australia was an emerging nation and the 1940s produced the rudiments of those who did not suffer
from �cultural cringe�, the term coined to describe the view that anything Australian was necessarily
inferior to anything from Mother England.

A conscious attempt had been made to associate Mowers to Australian nationalism.
I think that's an important sociological observation, because it precedes Victa in
associating powered lawn mower advertising to this Nation.

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