PART THREE - Robert & Stanley

The first records of the association between Robert Grant and Stanley Vickery
I have date from the early 1920s. This association raises a complication: Was
Grant & Vickery a pioneering AUS lawnmower manufacturer, commencing business
before the 1930 protective tariffs - designed to start a lawnmower manufacturing
industry in this country. I believe the answer is yes!

In fact, through some newspaper Patent Applications notices, I have uncovered
two patents, both concerning lawnmowers. They are: "Improvements in Clutches",
dated March, 1922, and then "Improved Frames for Mounting Engines on Mowing
Machines", dated July, 1922.

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Before I discuss the patents (next part), these Applications were helpful
in revealing additional information about the Applicants.

We discover that Robert Grant was an engineer, and his address is listed
at 63 Pitt Street, Sydney (as in the marine engine ads in Part Two (above).
We discover that Stanley Vickery was a grazier, of Victoria Street,
Strathfield. Both are listed as the Applicants and Actual Inventors of
the clutch and frame mechanisms.

TO BE CONTINUED ...