PART ONE

Hello ODK History Lovers

This story is a SUPPLEMENT to the Scott Bonnar Bloor Court Story.

The story as to how the Scott Bonnar Company began making lawnmowers is one that has been often told.
The primary source (of the story) was none other than Malcolm Bonnar (Scott's brother) who said this
in his 1971 Memoir:-

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The problem with this story is that it is, in typical Malcolm Cornelius Bonnar fashion, equivocal. It is,
no doubt, true; but it conceals or remains quiet on an even bigger truth.

The Tom Harrison Story (according to Malcolm) suggests that if it wasn't for that random or accidental
request by Harrison, Scott Bonnar would not have become involved with lawnmowers.

I reject that view.

In original research, I argued in the Bloor Court Story that Mr. Scott Bonnar was heavily involved in
the buying, repairing and selling of lawnmowers in 1919 at his second premises (after Young Street) at
Bloor Court, off Currie Street.

In other words, that apparent chance meeting - between Harrison and the Bonnar brothers - was not
chance at all. In this post I argue that Tom Harrison must have known about Scott Bonnar's lawnmower
business because of a very cogent and persuasive fact: Tom Harrison was a business neighbour of Scott
Bonnar from mid-1917 to the end of 1919.

TO BE CONTINUED ...