Having said this is a rare mower, I do not mean valuable.

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no, I know it does not work that way necessarily, from experience of many other things...probably be worth more if it was just another Victa 18...
I'll take some more pics next day or so..
the two bolts were missing from one side of handle mounting, I replaced them with a couple of spare whitworth bolts I had because it was putting fatigue on the other mounting and it is showing signs of beginning the process of fatigue strain shearing off..

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