PART FIVE - THE LIGHTNING CUTTER - Question 2

In this part I attempt to answer the second question I set myself in PART ONE:

[2] What happened to the Lightning Cutter? If this green feed cutter was so successful, why do
we have no record of Scott Bonnar continuing to manufacture and sell it when the new Scott Bonnar
business was started in 1920?

The evidence I have dates to late 1918, when Atkinson commences advertising (in their own right)
for the Lightning. Note that the machine is advertised as being available from "all Good Ironmongers,
Seed Merchants, &c.", BUT Atkinson in Leigh Street is listed as - the 'Manufacturers'!

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'S. Bonnar' would continue to advertise the Lightning cutter as well, but, interestingly, the
advertisements no longer present Scott as the patentee (the holder of the patent).

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It's easy to speculate here. It would appear that, as part of the business arrangement between
Bonnar and Atkinson (discussed in PART FOUR above) the manufacturing rights to the Lightning were
transferred to Atkinson & Co.

TO BE CONTINUED ...

Last edited by CyberJack; 06/09/20 07:19 PM.