MARINO & MOWERS
Not only that, the company would cross the country/city divide in marketing products
to city folk too. Marino Products would become the main distributors for The
Ladybird electric rotary lawnmower (UK) and, most importantly, the revolutionary
Rotoscythe range of rotary lawnmowers (UK).

THE LADYBIRD
The Ladybird was a small British electric rotary mower that was sold here (Australia)
from early 1949, way before the Victa phenomenon.

For more information on the Ladybird click HERE.
It is my view that Marino Products should be credited with introducing this machine
to Queensland and Northern NSW.

These machines were heavily advertised by the company and probably sold well in city
and provincial centres. The earliest Marino advertisement for this machine dates
from July, 1949:-

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Of course, this machine would have been up against Australian electric mower competition
by this time (Tecnico, Tasma, Mercury, Breville, etc.). Nonetheless,
it is surprising that this alien-looking machine was sold using advertising
copy that Victa (and others) would use to sell petrol-powered rotaries years later.

They were 'lightweight', would 'cut any length grass, ' would cut 'backwards and forwards,;
etc. What I find interesting in the following advertisement is that Marino not only had
country and provincial agents, it also had city agents as well by this time (in Brisbane).

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