Hello ODK History Lovers

The Malvin Engineering Company of 74 Thistlethwaite Street, South Melbourne, made rotary
motor mowers from about 1956. I do not believe these machines made it to the 1960s.

I have no photographs or even illustrations of what they might have looked like.
I do not know of anyone that owns one or has heard of them. I only know of them from a few advertisements
without illustrations), a reference to the company in a late 1950s Mower Maintenance Guide, and a few
Villiers' advertisements from the late 1950s (see links below).

Evidence suggests that Malvin Engineering were manufacturing engineers whose main
claim to fame was as manufacturers of Mobile Swing Saws and Light Agricultural Machinery:-

[Linked Image]

Malvin Engineering must have been somewhat prosperous because it advertised for various job descriptions
in the Employment Section of the Melbourne Argus throughout the 1950s.

As examples:
they advertised for 'sober, ambitious' Process Workers at 13 pound per week; 'Fitters and other first-class tradesman'
at 25 pound per week; 'Experienced Die Casters' for 'Aluminium Gravity Die Casting Foundry' paying 'good wages';
Office Clerks for 'general office work' at a mysterious 'Flinders lane warehouse'; and 'A dependable lady
Bookkeeper Stenographer at 15 pounds per week.'

So, what was the Melvin lawnmower actually like?

TO BE CONTINUED ...