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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

I wish I knew more about this interesting company, and its most-interesting
owner - Dudley Dowling. I lose the paper trail from the late 1950s, because
digitisation of newspapers post mid-1950s is sporadic (to say the least).

But, by the late 1950s Dudley would have been thinking of retirement...
He was Real and Vice Admiral at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, he was a successful
businessman with friendships & connections to 'important people' in Queensland.




His wife was actively engaged with the 'social circuit' doing good charity work.


Having said all this, the significance to vintage machinery history must be
seen in its context. From my perspective, Marino Products were important in
introducing two significant vintage mowers - the space-age Ladybird, and
the revolutionary Rotoscythe. I was surprised to discover the Marino Mowall.

From a wider perspective, Dowling's impact really belongs with pumping technology.
He invented a superior drenching gun for the farmer who faced the blowfly problem in
sheep; he developed pumps to include self-priming and longevity in adverse condition
with synthetic (plastic) materials.

The rest is history.
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JACK