PART TWOI found a couple of advertisements in the
Canberra Times from
early 1958 for a
Park Lane rotary mower and a
Park Lane push mower (a hand-mower).
This confirmed the Trade-In Guide reference was correct - but with no illustration or photo,
we still had no idea what one looked like! I did note that the ads were all for
Waltons-Sears,
a nation-wide department store, a company with a long trading history in Australia.
The lucky break came with the finding of a full-page ad for Waltons from
late 1958, for the
opening of their Fairfield, Sydney, store. The little Park Lane now had an identity:-
TO BE CONTINUED ...