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PART FIVE - 2016 UPDATE - Loukomatic
In late 2016 a lawnmower presented on Vintage Mowers: Buy, Swap and Sell.
Kye contacted me with some initial images of a curious self-propelled,
side-discharge lawnmower.

I recognised the triangle cast into the base as similar to the one used on the
Ezy-Cut machine. Kye then contacted me again with a brilliant deduction:
my record on the Loukon (which discussed the Ezy-Cut) had some discussion on
an elusive Loukamatic. None of these had been recorded, or known to have been
collected ... until now!

It seems almost certain that this machine is a Loukomatic.
Owned by Chris Collins, this machine must be super-rare; given Loukons being
relatively unknown in the collecting world.





The drive mechanism is cable operated from a handle lever.
The gearbox is central, rearward. Note the differential pawls
outboard of the box for differential action. There would be a
final gear reduction in the rear wheels (via pinion and crown wheel).
This would have been expensive to manufacture.